Pope Francis used a extremely derogatory time period towards the LGBT group when he reiterated in a closed-door assembly with Italian bishops that homosexuals shouldn’t be allowed to turn into monks, Italian media reported Monday.
La Repubblica and Corriere della Sera, the newspapers with the most important circulation in Italy, quoted the Pope as saying that the seminaries, or priestly schools, are already too filled with “frociaggine“, a vulgar Italian time period that roughly interprets to “faggot.”
The Vatican didn’t reply to a request for remark.
La Repubblica attributed his story to a number of unspecified sources, whereas Corriere stated it was backed by a number of nameless bishops, who prompt that the Pope, as an Argentinian, may not have realized that the Italian time period he used was offensive.
Political gossip web site Dagospia was the primary to report on the alleged incident, which reportedly occurred on Might 20, when the Italian Episcopal Convention opened a four-day meeting with a private assembly with the pontiff.
Francis, who’s 87, is up to now credited with main the Roman Catholic Church to undertake a extra welcoming method towards the LGBT group.
In 2013, initially of his papacy, he famously stated: “If an individual is homosexual, seeks God and has good will, who am I to guage?”, whereas final 12 months he allowed monks to bless members of same-sex {couples}. , which provoked a big conservative response.
Nonetheless, he delivered the same message to homosexual seminarians (minus the profanity) when he met with Italian bishops in 2018, telling them to fastidiously vet candidates for the priesthood and reject anybody suspected of being homosexual.
In a 2005 doc, revealed underneath Francis’ late predecessor Benedict XVI, the Vatican stated the Church might admit to the priesthood those that had clearly overcome their gay tendencies for at the least three years.
The doc stated that working towards homosexuals and people with “deeply rooted” gay tendencies and people who “help the so-called homosexual tradition” needs to be banned.
