OK, but if in fact he said, “Who am I to judge?” What is he referring to when it comes to judgment?
Acceptance into heaven? Forgiveness of this sin? Acknowledgement of acceptance in the Church?
I ask, if the Pope does not “judge”, who does?
I think that saying homosexuals who come to the Church and do not perform the acts are not to be “judged” might be considered splitting hairs.
But all my statements are predicated on if, in fact, the Pope DID say what he is reported to have said, in the manner reported.
I, too, don’t trust the MSM.
"Pope Francis, in some of the most compassionate words from any pontiff on gays, said they should not be judged or marginalized and should be integrated into society, but he reaffirmed Church teaching that homosexual acts are a sin." July 29, 2013 Agence France-Presse
The Pope is certainly not going to reverse 5,000 years of Judeo-Christian moral teaching against sodomy, based on a deontextualized chat with the press on the plane trip back from World Youth Day.
Associated Press! Give me a break!