Posted on 05/20/2018 6:18:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A survivor of clerical sexual abuse has said Pope Francis told him that God had made him gay and loved him, in arguably the most strikingly accepting comments about homosexuality to be uttered by the leader of the Roman Catholic church.
Juan Carlos Cruz, who spoke privately with the pope two weeks ago about the abuse he suffered at the hands of one of Chile’s most notorious paedophiles, said the issue of his sexuality had arisen because some of the Latin American country’s bishops had sought to depict him as a pervert as they accused him of lying about the abuse.
“He told me, ‘Juan Carlos, that you are gay does not matter. God made you like this and loves you like this and I don’t care. The pope loves you like this. You have to be happy with who you are,’” Cruz told Spanish newspaper El País.
Now 87, Fernando Karadima, the man who abused Cruz, was found guilty of abuse by the Vatican in 2011.
Greg Burke, the Vatican’s chief spokesman, did not respond to questions about whether Cruz’s statement accurately reflected his conversation with the pope....
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Why doesn't Pope Frank tell the homo crowd that they need to overcome their deviant perversions the same way I learned to train myself?
BS. If he’s not lying, he misinterpreted something said.
Yep!! First he declared there was NO HELL and now he’s calling the scriptures a liar!! He needs to be removed before he does MORE damage to the catholic church!!
Jesuits are evil, and this pope puts to a lie the old line, “Is the Pope Catholic?”<
Because this one isn’t.
It's coming true. Whatever remains of the Catholic faith, it sure won't be the Catholic Church.
And Catholics expect the magisterium to tell them what the bible says?
Just so. It’s an old saying that “The Floor of Hell is paved with the skulls of Bishops.”
And if anyone wants a quick glimpse of the Popes in Hell, they should read Dante’s Inferno. Which is worth a read in any case.
Isn’t here also something about Peter the Roman being the one to lead the Church during the Tribulation? Can’t remember where I read/heard that. Francis is 81. Could be he’s not a real pope, for any one of various reasons, and the next one is Peter the Roman.
+1
Hmmm, must be a new tradition, which overrules scripture of course.
God loves each and every child he creates. And He has told us how we are to live, too. That does not include a “ homosexual lifestyle”. Francis needs to preach God’s word including His moral law
I suspect he's a boy lovin' homo himself...
it would seem that way- He even called the victims of homosexual rape liars recently- clearly attempting to protect the homosexual priest- He sure does wish to protect and advocate for homosexuals
Just looked it up. It’s part of Malachy’s prophecy.
No. God made the man, yes, but choices made him homosexual. There is no gay gene, or chromosome.
Not a fan of Francis, but has anyone read beyond the headline?
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