Pope Francis sends letter praising gay children's book

The Guardian ^ | Aug. 28, 2015 | Rosie Scammell

[FR_addict]

Italian book that explores different family types including same sex was banned by mayor of Venice, but pontiff becomes unlikely supporter ... In the book, the egg encounters a pair of gay penguins, lesbian rabbits successfully bringing up a family, as well as other family models, including a single parent hippo, a mixed race dog couple, and kangaroos that have adopted polar bear cubs...

Now Pardi has found an unlikely supporter in Pope Francis, who through his staff has written to the author praising her work. “His holiness is grateful for the thoughtful gesture and for the feelings which it evoked, hoping for an always more fruitful activity in the service of young generations and the spread of genuine human and Christian values,” wrote Peter B Wells, a senior official at the Vatican secretariat of state.

The letter, dated 9 July and recently seen by the Guardian, was a response to a parcel of children’s books sent by Pardi to the pontiff in June. The collection from her publisher, Lo Stampatello, including seven or eight books which deal with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues (LGBT), was accompanied by a heartfelt letter from the author describing the attacks she has come under in recent months. ...

[FR_addict]

I'm speechless.

[Westbrook]

Shaking My Head ...

[TexasFreeper2009]

Seriously, the Christian church is doomed if the dont get a handle on this kind of pandering to sin, and it's NOT just catholics. I saw a video of a Methodist church give a standing ovation when a man proposed marriage to another man in church!

[Yossarian]

If this story holds up, there should be a “recall” conclave convened....

[Politicalkiddo]

“...genuine human and Christian values,”

Human values are incompatible with God’s values. Who chose this nutcase?

[gaijin]

Devil, hippy pope.

[dadfly]

huh?

[DungeonMaster]

So who is surprised by this?

[silverleaf]

Pope is going off the rails

[SkyDancer]

Isn’t the pope supposed to be infallible when it comes to church doctrine? So when has the church been pro-gay?

[SkyPilot]

The very first words from Francis to the Cardinals who elected him after the blackmail ouster of Benedict were: "May God forgive you for what you have done."

When Francis was chosen, lightening stuck the Vatican............twice.

[A CA Guy]

With all due respect to this board (and I am Catholic), but I find this man to be very non-Catholic much less Pope like.
He seems to work against the USA, Capitalism, civility and old fashioned family values.

I think this guy is going to make EX-Catholics out of lots of people.

[tuffydoodle]

2 Peter 2:
But there were also false prophets in Israel, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will cleverly teach destructive heresies and even deny the Master who bought them. In this way, they will bring sudden destruction on themselves. Many will follow their evil teaching and shameful immorality. And because of these teachers, the way of truth will be slandered.
New Living Translation

[A CA Guy]

Something was going on when the last Pope was removed.

[Psalm 73]

"Human values are incompatible with God’s values."

Human values:
"...being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality,wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful..."
Romans 1:29-31

[KC_Lion]

Remember when Sarah Palin said that "This Pope was kinda liberal"?

And OMG! I remember people on F.R. saying she needed to "STFU until she knows what she is talking about."

Can she talk now?

[b4its2late]

Must’ve been something in the translation that messed him up.

[RetSignman]

[there should be a “recall” conclave convened...]

That will have the same effect as trying to impeach Roberts from the Supreme Court.

[zadox]

“His holiness is grateful for the thoughtful gesture and for the feelings which it evoked, hoping for an always more fruitful activity in the service of young generations and the spread of genuine human and Christian values,”

This has the feeling of a "rubber stamp" to me; who knows if the Pope even actually saw this. Might it have just been some clueless underling sending out the equivalent of a form thank you letter. Granted that Pope Frances can seem disappointing at times, but when all is said and done it may just turn out the the Pope is Catholic after all.

[TalBlack]

If the pope wrote what is attributed to him he denied Jesus in doing so. I can’t see any difference between a gay headed family and a black mass.