Pope
Francis is reaching out to gays, saying he won't judge priests for their sexual
orientation, in a remarkably open and wide-ranging news conference as he returns
from his first foreign trip. According to AP, Francis says: "If someone is
gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?"
His
predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, authored a document that said men with
deep-rooted homosexual tendencies should not be priests. Francis is being much
more conciliatory, saying gay clergymen should be forgiven and their sins
forgotten.
His
remarks came Monday during a plane journey back to the Vatican from his first
foreign trip in Brazil.
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