This pope makes me even happier that I left and became a conservative Lutheran.
He’s almost right, as far as the headline goes, which is not very far.
Matthew 5:17-19 - “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.”
Jesus did not establish rules, but he did emphatically confirm the existing rules. If God wants to change those rules, I expect Him to tell us clearly and not to just hope we somehow reinterpret scripture to mean the exact opposite of what it says.