Pope says Africans are 'special case' when it comes to LGBT blessings

Reuters (on their own site) ^ | January 29, 2024 | Reuters staff writers

[Salman]

VATICAN CITY, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Pope Francis said in an interview published on Monday that Africans were a "special case" in the opposition of bishops and many other people in the continent to homosexuality.

But he said he was confident that, except for Africans, critics of his decision to allow blessings for same-sex couples would eventually understand it.

Blessings were allowed last month in a document called Fiducia Supplicans (Supplicating Trust), which has caused widespread debate in the Catholic Church, with particularly strong resistance coming from African bishops.

"Those who protest vehemently belong to small ideological groups," Francis told Italian newspaper La Stampa. "A special case are Africans: for them homosexuality is something 'bad' from a cultural point of view, they don't tolerate it".

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[Salman]

The Pope is old enough to remember when homosexuality was bad from a cultural point of view in Europe and the Americas. I suppose the idea is we're more culturally "evolved" than Africans.

[rhinohunter]

What a racist!

[Orosius]

Precisely. The Africans are too primitive to embrace the gayness, per Pope Francis. In other words…racist!

[Bigg Red]

Begone, imPopestor!

[MeganC]

Bergoglio is socialist scum. Lord Haste the Day that this man departs the Throne of St. Peter and is replaced by a good and God-fearing CATHOLIC!

[Jeff Chandler]

Translation: Primitive people are too backwards to appreciate the beauty of shlong/bunghole couplings.

[Responsibility2nd]

The Pope likes...

[cgbg]

We “understand” that the Pope is really the anti-Pope.

[rwilson99]

It’s good to know what happened to St. Charles Lewanga and his companions because they refused to ‘Celebrate Pride’ with the Ugandan King is understood as ‘bad.’

[Phoenix8]

A strong tree rots from the inside out. Which is what the West is doing; Our Churches, governments, Colleges, and now even big businesses.

The Marxist inspired woke rot.

[Hieronymus]

I think I identify as an African-Catholic.

Holy Martyrs of Uganda, pray for us

St. Cyprian, pray for us

Tertullian pray for us

Archbishop Lefebvre, pray for us.

[Tell It Right]

One thing we should learn about Africans is a reminder every time we drink coffee. We call it that because kaffir in Arabic means "infidel". The Muslim army tried the Siege of Vienna in the 17th century and failed. The injured jihadists left behind were interrogated and that's when the Europeans learned about the caffeine drink made from beans the Muslims imported from the "infidel" Ethiopians.

Over the centuries there were repeated times that the Muslim caliphates told Ethiopia to convert or die. Christian Ethiopia refused to convert and defended themselves successfully every time. What the Muslims couldn't conquer they made trade relations with and imported the beans, calling them infidel beans because the Christians in Ethiopia WOULD RATHER DIE THAN BETRAY JESUS. Of course, "infidel" in Arabic is kaffir, which we transliterated to coffee.

So every time you drink a cup, tell Jesus that you're sticking to Him and His ways like glue, no matter what the commie pope or anybody else says or does.

[Sertorius]

Good African Christians are being slaughtered so it is a waiting game for him anyway.

[SaveFerris]

Joe Biden says that he is a pope Francis Catholic. In this rare case, I believe Joe Biden this one time.

Joe is also an acolyte of the anti-Christian Manchurian Candidate Barack Hussein Obama

[Publius]

Bergoglio's Rationale

[erkelly]

This is a false church. Christians must leave or pay for her sins.

[Ken Regis]

Does this “pope” EVEN HAVE a Bible?!

What a racist!

How does any Catholic put up with this?

Isn’t there some Catholic, somewhere who can nail truth to the front door of the Vatican?

[erkelly]

Interesting, perhaps this why the strange war the WEF is conducting against coffee.

[rhinohunter]

So I wonder what happens to a faithful African Bishop who’s not in Africa? Is he excepted or will he still be cancelled for not going homo?

[DesertRhino]

Disgusting old racist communist pervert anti-pope.