While I am confused by this supposed “VIP” treatment, I can see the Pope meeting with them, to engage with them, to minister to them.
Locking them outside the gates is not a way to reach the sinner.
IMHO. . .
“I can see the Pope meeting with them, to engage with them, to minister to them”.
Make me laugh. If the truth was known he gave these openly practicing sodomites Holy Communion. Homosexuality has all but destroyed the Church and the Pope seems oblivious to it. What the church needs is a purge starting from the top down. Get rid of every single Wuerl and other closeted homosexual bishops and take their priestly duties away from them. Francis has made things worse. Nothing gets better with this leftist Jesuit sitting in the chair of Peter.