Pope Francis meets with Mara Grassi, vice-president of the Tenda di Gionata, Association of LGBT Christians and their parents, Sept. 17, 2020, Rome.
Posted on 09/18/2020 5:03:07 PM PDT by ebb tide
Pope Francis meets with Mara Grassi, vice-president of the Tenda di Gionata, Association of LGBT Christians and their parents, Sept. 17, 2020, Rome.
VATICAN CITY, September 18, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis has again implicitly affirmed the notion that God purposefully makes people same-sex attracted and gender dysphoric, telling a group of Italian parents who affirm their children as LGBT that “God loves your children as they are.”
The Pope met with the group of 40 parents, members of Tenda di Gionata, “Jonathan’s Tent,” following a public audience, according to a report by America Magazine. Homosexual activists have long co-opted the Biblical story of the relationship of bosom friendship that existed between David and Jonathan to serve their homosexual agenda.
Mara Grassi, vice president of the Tenda di Gionata, told Pope Francis, “We wish to create a bridge to the church so that the church too can change its way of looking at our children, no longer excluding them but fully welcoming them.”
Pope Francis has repeatedly delivered mixed signals, often seeming to significantly depart from Church teaching regarding the pastoring of individuals afflicted with homosexuality and transgenderism.
Over the course of his pontificate, Pope Francis has given indications that he is not concerned with addressing homosexual activity according to Church teaching as inherently disordered and intrinsically evil. Quite the contrary: Not long ago he signalled support for legal recognition of same-sex unions. He has welcomed a former male student and his boyfriend to the Vatican’s U.S. Embassy. And a French priest said in a televised interview that Pope Francis approved of his blessing of homosexual couples.
In 2013, the premiere LGBT publication, The Advocate, named Pope Francis “Person of the Year,” for asking, “If someone is gay and seeks the Lord with goodwill, who am I to judge?”
The Advocate editor’s explanation of their choice reveals the consequences of Pope Francis’ words:
The most influential person of 2013 doesn't come from our ongoing legal conflict but instead from our spiritual one — successes from which are harder to define. There has not been any vote cast or ruling issued, and still a significant and unprecedented shift took place this year in how LGBT people are considered by one of the world's largest faith communities.
In 2017, the LGBT world applauded Pope Francis’ recruitment of fellow Jesuit, pro-LGBT Fr. James Martin, as a communications consultant to the Holy See’s Secretariat for Communications. Martin has led the charge to normalize homosexuality and trangenderism within the Catholic Church virtually unhindered.
In a widely publicized event two years later, Fr. Martin joined Pope Francis at the Vatican for a private meeting, bolstering the credibility of Martin’s pro-LGBT advocacy.
The private audience took place for over 30 minutes in the papal library of the Apostolic Palace, and America magazine interpreted the meeting as a “highly significant public statement of support and encouragement” for the American Jesuit. Martin himself saw it as “a sign of the Holy Father’s care for L.G.B.T. people.”
In 2016, Pope Francis referred to a woman who had undergone a sex-change operation as a “man,” and also referred to her as having “married” another woman and admitted to receiving them in the Vatican last year.
Referring to the post-trans surgery woman, the Pope said, “He got married.”
‘He that was ‘her’ but is he,’ explained Pope Francis. 
Pope Francis meeting with woman who underwent sex-change surgery (right) and her 'wife' (left)
In 2018, a homosexual man who visited Pope Francis said the Pope told him, “God made you gay.” The allegation came from Juan Carlos Cruz, one of the child victims of sexual abuse by Chilean clergy.
The Jesuit Pontiff made a giant leap from his already confounding, impenetrable, “Who am I to judge?” suggesting to the world that the Church is treading down a path to justifying LGBT identity and activity as fully normal.
Such a path would be impossible for the Church of Christ.
The Vatican press office's Cristina Ravenda told LifeSiteNews at the time, “The Vatican does not comment on private conversations of the Pope.” Pope Francis could have personally issued a correction to the story, but a correction never came.
Earlier this year, an “out” gay priest, Fr. James Alison, who rejects the Church’s teaching on homosexuality shared his personal reaction to a phone call he claims he received from Pope Francis in which the Pontiff reportedly affirmed him as a homosexual priest.
Last month, after a controversial nun opened a residence in Argentina for ‘trans women’ —men who choose to identify as women— Pope Francis praised her work, referring to the men as “girls.”
“Dear Monica, God who did not go to the seminary or study theology will repay you abundantly. I pray for you and your girls,” said the Pope, according to the nun, Sister Mónica Astorga Cremona.
The meeting wasn’t announced by the Vatican, but was covered in Avvenire, the daily newspaper of the Italian bishops’ conference.
Between Francis' "off the books" private meetings and secret deals with the Chicoms, his papacy hasn't been too "transparent".
Ping
Francis must be an Atheist
this pope seems to mix things up a lot, imho and I realize I am not privy to any inside dealings or info
yes, God loves the kids. including the queer kids.
no question of God’s love.
But, God also asks (instructs) us to live up to certain moral standards. I’d really appreciate the pope including this “tiny little detail” when he talks about God’s love. The pope is not communicating the whole story, just the tiny parts of it he likes?
Does any Catholic care what Pope Francis the Faggot says that contradicts Scripture?
Does any Catholic care what Pope Francis the Faggot says that contradicts Scripture?
I can assure you MANY Catholics are having huge problems with the Pope and the overall church right now and have been for some time. If only I could convince them to go Protestant, but that's another story...
God loves everyone unconditionally, that is clear in the scripture. However, in the relationship building process with God comes the desire to change and conform to God’s will and law. Sin separates us from that relationship. Therefore one cannot live in Sin and also live with God in his kingdom.
He certainly is not a man of God
There is no ‘inside’ to be privy to... God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah because HE called it an abomination ... HIS way or the highway to hell...
I contend there is no child born ‘queer’... somebody messed with them to cause them to be ‘queer’... Francis the talking donkey is way over his head in speaking for the Heavenly Father... NO way the Heavenly Father created ‘abominations’...
Of course, God loves all of us, but that does not mean he loves or approves of our sins. We are all commanded to repent of our sins, whatever they may be.
It could be he thinks he is the top candidate for the position of the False Prophet during the Tribulation.
May God bless us all by striking down Pope Francis the Faggot.
May God bless us all by striking down Pope Francis the Faggot.
Worst Pope ever.
South American Jesuit...pretty much the same thing.
This is how the devil wors
Partial truths
It is true God loves us as we are
But thats only part of it
He also expects us to change and grow, and like every example of a chronic sinner Jesus ever met, “go and sin no more”
God Loves the Children... Yes
Surrender to Jesus and He will heal your thorn of the flesh
... Worst Pope ever.
Not even close, but pretty bad
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