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Pope's reported comment to a gay man may indicate a new level of acceptance of homosexuality
LA Times ^ | 21 May 2018 | By TOM KINGTON

Posted on 05/21/2018 7:35:39 AM PDT by mandaladon

Pope Francis has reportedly told a gay man that "God made you that way and loves you as you are," apparently pushing the pontiff's acceptance of homosexuality to a new level.

Francis made the comments to Juan Carlos Cruz, a Chilean victim of priestly sexual abuse who recently spent days with the pope at the Vatican to discuss his ordeal as the pontiff moves to tackle decades of coverups and ostracism of victims in the Chilean church, according to the Spanish newspaper El Pais.

Cruz was quoted as having discussed his homosexuality with Francis. "He told me: 'Juan Carlos, I don't care about you being gay. God made you that way and loves you as you are and I don't mind. The pope loves you as you are, you have to be happy with who you are.' "

A spokesman at the Vatican on Sunday declined to confirm or deny Francis' comments, stating, "We don't normally comment on the pope's private conversations."

In 2013, Francis famously said, "If someone is gay and seeks the Lord with goodwill, who am I to judge?" when asked for his views on homosexuality, signaling a sea change in Catholic views on sexual orientation.

That year he also told an interviewer, "A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality," adding, "I replied with another question: 'Tell me: When God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?' "

His reported remarks based on Cruz's account go further, however, by suggesting he believes people are created gay by God — a position likely to anger Catholic conservatives.

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To: IrishBrigade

Interesting. Could you add a bit to that.


61 posted on 05/21/2018 8:51:08 AM PDT by EliRoom8
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To: mandaladon
"God made you that way and loves you as you are," So saith Pope Francis.

I don't think G-d loves a sexual predator......

62 posted on 05/21/2018 8:52:45 AM PDT by yoe
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To: Mrs. Don-o
the Pope would return to Sacred Tradition he would preach that all of us (whatever "orientation box" we check) are called to sexual purity

You mean like the Catholics teach about Mary, who was never allowed to consummate her marriage to Joseph, according to Catholic folklore. No wonder he didn’t live long.
63 posted on 05/21/2018 8:53:00 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: mandaladon

So the Pope just endorsed pedophilia, rape, and “grooming”?


64 posted on 05/21/2018 8:55:45 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: mandaladon

The Holy See.


65 posted on 05/21/2018 8:56:41 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (...the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light...)
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To: rebel25
Sorry sir, I can't believe in a collection of writings by men who still thought the world was flat, the Sun revolved around the Earth, and natural catastrophes were caused by an angry god. I also don't get why god needs to be worshipped.

You may ask, as others have, how can I have a moral grounding without god. Simple. Like all humans, I have emotions including: compassion, sympathy, empathy, love. I also have the emotions: hate, envy, jealousy, etc. I decided long ago to conduct my life with the positive emotions and try to ignore the negative emotions. I wish all humanity would do the same, but they don't.

I don't know if a deist designed those emotions for his gratification, or if they evolved according to Darwin.

I've lived my life by the axiom: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Seems to me the best way to live a life and minimize conflict.

Last thought: While I try to be a good person with others, I don't rule my life by emotion. I use logic, reasoning, and informed decisions to make my political decisions.

66 posted on 05/21/2018 9:07:05 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Plus LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
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To: mandaladon

I guess we are getting closer.

Revelation 2:18+

18 “And to the [a]angel of the church in Thyatira write,

‘These things says the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and His feet like fine brass: 19 “I know your works, love, [b]service, faith, and your [c]patience; and as for your works, the last are more than the first. 20 Nevertheless I have [d]a few things against you, because you allow [e]that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, [f]to teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols. 21 And I gave her time to [g]repent of her sexual immorality, and she did not repent. 22 Indeed I will cast her into a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of [h]their deeds. 23 I will kill her children with death, and all the churches shall know that I am He who searches[i] the minds and hearts. And I will give to each one of you according to your works.


67 posted on 05/21/2018 9:07:56 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: onedoug

So what should the Pope have said? God hates you because you are gay?


68 posted on 05/21/2018 9:14:20 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: bk1000

In Revelation he is called the False Prophet. He will be the side kick of the Beast.


69 posted on 05/21/2018 9:16:46 AM PDT by chuckles
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To: mandaladon

The Pope is fallible?


70 posted on 05/21/2018 9:18:21 AM PDT by NoLibZone (Mueller, Obama, Hillary and Holder each made millions selling US uranium to Putin.)
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To: ealgeone
If the Roman Catholic church would return to Biblical teaching....

You mean like this?

"And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 8:38-39

What did the Pope say? Did he say homosexuality was not a sin? No. He said that God loved the man for who he was. That God's love is unconditional. That's exactly what my Bible teaches. Does your Bible teach that the Pope should have told the man that God hates him?

71 posted on 05/21/2018 9:19:50 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: A Navy Vet

Hair splitting. The mechanics of “brain wiring”, or synaptic pathways, are technically physical, but not pre-determined. A person can be delusional or mentally ill without having a physical brain disorder. Behavior is learned and ultimately by choice. To claim otherwise is to say that free will doesn’t exist. That we’re all just leaves blowing on the wind and unable to determine our own fate.


72 posted on 05/21/2018 9:24:50 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: mandaladon

I don’t believe the pope said that at all, I am not catholic. If he did say it he’s wrong, but I can almost guarantee he didn’t say it and it’s a nothing story other than a hit piece.


73 posted on 05/21/2018 9:27:54 AM PDT by Scythian_Reborn
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To: Old Yeller
You are misconstruing "purity" as I used it in my comment.

Normal genuine sexual intercourse in normal genuine man-woman marriage is pure, virtuous and chaste.

74 posted on 05/21/2018 9:32:04 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (They said what's up is down, they said what isn't is, they put ideas in his head he thought were his)
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To: mandaladon
Catechism of the Catholic Church

2357 Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered." They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.

75 posted on 05/21/2018 9:32:06 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: mandaladon

We are way past the point where anything that Francis says can be considered any type of permanent church doctrine. He is constantly throwing his personal liberal/communist opinions out there under the authority of the Pope. The next Pope is going to have a mess to clean up after this dope.


76 posted on 05/21/2018 9:33:14 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: DoodleDawg
What did the Pope say? Did he say homosexuality was not a sin? No. He said that God loved the man for who he was. That God's love is unconditional. That's exactly what my Bible teaches. Does your Bible teach that the Pope should have told the man that God hates him?

Recommend you start with Romans 1 and work your way up to that chapter. Context is your key to properly understanding the New Testament.

77 posted on 05/21/2018 9:34:13 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: DoodleDawg

It’s not what he said but was left unsaid. God loves him, but the sin will still separate him. Unless he told this lost soul to repent and leave his sinful lifestyle, than he did him a great disservice. Churches as a whole have been real good at proclaiming God’s love, which isn’t a bad thing, but we tiptoe around the whole be transformed and leave the sinful past behind.


78 posted on 05/21/2018 9:35:29 AM PDT by B-Rizzle Fo-Shizzle
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Store announcer:

“Clean up in all isles.”


79 posted on 05/21/2018 9:36:17 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: mandaladon

Thank God for Luther!


80 posted on 05/21/2018 9:37:36 AM PDT by TopDog2 (Onward Christian soldiers)
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