Pope Says Gays and Others Marginalized by Church Deserve Apology

ABC News ^ | Jun 26, 2016 | Nicole Winfield

[detective]

Pope Francis says gays — and all the other people the church has marginalized, such as the poor and the exploited — deserve an apology.

Francis was asked Sunday en route home from Armenia if he agreed with one of his top advisers, German Cardinal Reinhard Marx, who told a conference in Dublin in the days after the deadly Orlando gay club attack that the church owes an apology to gays for having marginalized them.

Francis responded with a variation of his famous "Who am I to judge?" comment and a repetition of church teaching that gays must not be discriminated against but treated with respect.

[detective]

"I think the church must not only apologize ... to a gay person it offended, but we must apologize to the poor, to women who have been exploited, to children forced into labor, apologize for having blessed so many weapons" and for having failed to accompany families who faced divorces or experienced other problems."

[2ndDivisionVet]

Is Benedict rested up yet?

[Dilbert San Diego]

And does he want Moslems to apologize for throwing homosexuals off of buildings, as happens today?

Are we really going to apologize for things done by the Catholic church or Christians in the past, vs. discussing how Moslems TODAY mistreat and kill the people the Pope wants to apologize to????

[Parmy]

How about the straight Catholics being apologized to for having to deal with homosexual priests.

[FlingWingFlyer]

So why don’t you start apologizing Frankie? You pal Barack Hussein Obama would love it. He’s the apologizer in chief.

[Huskrrrr]

Perhaps the Pope and Obama should team up for an “Apology Tour.”

[boycott]

So, in other words, he’s saying all the other popes were fallible?

[faithhopecharity]

is there any chance at all Pope Benedict can come back ...??????????????????????

[a fool in paradise]

what about the divorced?

[Repent and Believe]

“what about the divorced?”

Let’s not stop there:

Based our lovely anti-pope’s logic, to be fair we should apologize as well to the marginalized murderers, drunkards, blasphemers, sodomites, fornicators, apostates, liars, slanderers; why, then not to the devil himself?

[Repent and Believe]

“is there any chance at all Pope Benedict can come back ...??????????????????????”

I suggest reading this before continuing a call for Ratzinger (”Benedict”):

http://www.novusordowatch.org/benedict.htm

[Steven Tyler]

What happened to “forgivness”

[Repent and Believe]

“...Francis responded with a variation of his famous ‘Who am I to judge?’ “”

There, the anti-pope just telegraphed to you that he is not the pope. The purpose of the pope is to provide discretion to the Church to with and through Christ, to provide, guide and protect His flock. Without judgement how does a shepherd tell the difference between a wolf and a chicken?

If he suggests that he is below the level of judge in such cases, then he is totally unqualified to be pope. A non-Catholic cannot discern between a sacrament and a sin. So it is with Mr. Bergoglio, sadly.

[ReaganGeneration2]

Question to ask the Pope:
Are you apologizing for the Church helping people keep their souls in a state of grace, to keep them out of hell?

[grania]

Folks who are knowledgeable about the RC church tried to explain things to me, but I'm not convinced. Benedict is still Pope. It's not a job one can retire from. If these folks believe their own rhetoric, doesn't the Lord decide when a Pope's time on earth is done?

What's next? Providing love and understanding to the pervert Priests who've done so much perhaps irreversible damage to the Catholic Church and to so many lives?

[Hattie]

So let the Pope apologize. The rest of us are not swallowing this garbage he dictates.

[showme_the_Glory]

Start up the search committee. Time to find a new pope.

[captmar-vell]

The area where I live has been a dumping ground for homosexual Catholic priests, how about him apologizing for that,

Trouble is I suspect I haven’t narrowed down just where it is I live.

This Pope is a NWO globalist Marxist married to the world system,

[castlegreyskull]

Why would he command people to apologize for a sin that they did not commit? It makes no sense.

[Salvation]

Did the Pope read the Catechism?

 
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Catechism of the Catholic Church

2357 Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered." They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.