2024-05-29 05:21:53
In a personal assembly per week in the past, the 87-year-old pontiff reportedly used the offensive Italian phrase “frociaggine,” which loosely interprets as “faggots” or “poofs.”
Francis reiterated his opposition to brazenly homosexual males coming into priest-training faculties, then joked that some seminaries “have already got an excessive amount of frociaggine.”
A little bit later, Pope Francis issued an apology for offensive language he reportedly used to explain homosexual individuals.
“The Pope by no means supposed to offend or specific himself in homophobic phrases and apologizes to those that felt offended by way of the time period, as reported,” the Vatican stated in an announcement.
The remark appeared first within the newspaper La Repubblica after which within the Corriere della Sera, which printed the opinion of some contributors within the assembly that the Pope didn’t perceive how offensive the phrase was.
The Argentine pontiff’s native language is Spanish. The Vatican didn’t reply to requests for remark.
Since changing into pope in 2013, Francis has emphasised the significance of a Catholic Church open to all, together with LGBTQ believers, and final yr even gave permission to bless gay {couples}.
Nevertheless, the Church’s official doctrine nonetheless states that same-sex relationships are “inherently disordered.”
2024-05-29 05:21:53