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 Chiles most notorious paedophiles, said the issue of his sexuality had arisen because some of the Latin American countrys 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 dont 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 Vaticans chief spokesman, did not respond to questions about whether Cruzs statement accurately reflected his conversation with the pope....
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Why bother?
Pope Francis the Heretic
And that’s one reason Islam is ascendant in this age:
radical Islamist leaders actually believe in their scriptures.
These sources divisive reporting of statements attributed to Francis as well as the recent reported reaction of the Chilean Bishops resigning en mass require a purposeful scrutiny.
“People are not born sexual deviants you commie pope.”
I think some people are. Just as some people are born serial killers and thieves. We ALL are born with a sinful nature.
It’s the acting out on those impulses that is the problem.
Standing alone, thats basically it.
But theres also the presumption of cause, an apparent dismissal of role of sin.
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