Pope Francis said laws around the world criminalizing homosexuality are “unjust,” calling homosexuality a sin for Catholic worshippers – but not a crime.
Pope Francis has criticized laws that criminalize homosexuality as"unjust," and said God loves all his children, just as they are. Pope Francis said laws criminalizing homosexuality are “unjust,” calling homosexuality a sin for Catholic worshippers – but not a crime. with The Associated Press.
Francis’ comments were not a full embrace of LGBTQ people. The church still calls homosexuality a sin. "There are absolutely no grounds for considering homosexual unions to be in any way similar or even remotely analogous to God’s plan for marriage and family,” the Vatican’s orthodoxy office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, has said.
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