CV NEWS FEED // In a controversial passage of his upcoming autobiography, “Life: My Story Through History,” Pope Francis says that homosexual couples, even if they should not have access to legal marriage, should still be able to “live the gift of love” with legal support.
In excerpts published on Thursday, March 14 by the Italian daily “Corriere della Sera” under the subtitle “homosexual,” the article quote the Pontiff writing in his book coming out on March 19, anniversary of his installation:
It is right that these people who live the gift of love can have legal coverage like everyone else. Jesus often went out to meet people who lived on the margins, and that is what the Church should do today with people from the LGBTQ+ community, who are often marginalized within the Church: make them feel at home, especially those who have received baptism and they are, to all intents and purposes, part of the people of God. And whoever has not received baptism and wishes to receive it, or who wishes to be a godfather or godmother, please be welcomed.
“I imagine a Church that is a mother, which embraces and welcomes everyone, even those who feel to be wrong and those who have been judged by us in the past. I think of homosexual or transsexual people who seek the Lord and who have instead been rejected or chased away,” the Pope also writes in his upcoming book.
Pope Francis also says about the blessings to irregular couples: “I just want to say that God loves everyone, especially sinners. And if brother bishops decide not to follow this path, it does not mean that this is the antechamber of a schism, because the doctrine of the Church is not called into question.”
