Pope Francis has voiced out that the Christians and the
Roman Catholic Church should apologize to gay people and seek their forgiveness
for the way they have been treated.
The Pope supported the German Cardinal, Reinhard Marx who
said that the Church needed to say sorry for the way it has treated the gay
community.
Speaking on it, he says “We Christians have to apologise for
so many things, not just for this (treatment of gay people), but we must ask
for forgiveness. Not just apologise — forgiveness,” he said.
The questions is: if a person who has that condition, who
has good will, and who looks for God, who are we to judge?” the pope added,
repeating his famous “Who am I to judge?” remark about homosexuality made early
in his papacy.
That comment was one of the first indications that the Vatican
under Pope Francis’ leadership would take a more conciliatory approach to the
gay community, but also prompted criticism from the Church’s more conservative
members.
Francis expanded his apology to also include other people
who have faced discrimination.
“I think that the Church not only should apologise… to a gay
person whom it offended but it must also apologise to the poor as well, to the
women who have been exploited, to children who have been forced to work.”
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