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Profile: Pope Francis
He was accused of effectively delivering two fellow priests into the hands of the military authorities in by deteriorating to publicly endorse their social work in the slums of Buenos Aires, which infuriated the junta at the time, the BBC's Vladimir Hernández reported.
Another accusation levelled against him from the "Dirty War" era is that he failed to follow up a request to support find the baby of a woman kidnapped when five months' pregnant and killed in It is believed the baby was illegally adopted.
The Vatican strenuously denies Pope Francis was guilty of any wrongdoing under the Junta.
It emerged that in he took initial steps towards beatifying Argentine priests murdered under military rule. In a separate case, he also put forward for sainthood five Catholic churchmen who were killed at the St Patrick church in Buenos Aires, also in
And at the Pope's request, the Vatican opened up its files on the Argentine dictatorship, to victims and their relatives.
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, a Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights activist, w
Pope Francis clarifies comments on homosexuality: &#;One must think about the circumstances.&#;
This week, in an interview with the Associated Press, Pope Francis became the first pope to call for the decriminalization of homosexuality. It was an historic step towards the Catholic Church&#;s protection of vulnerable LGBTQ people around the nature. (Read our coverage of the pope&#;s recent remarks here.)
During his interview, the Holy Father imagined a hypothetical conversation in which a person might protest by saying, &#;Being lgbtq+ is a sin,&#; and the pope suggested a response: &#;It&#;s also a sin to lack philanthropy with one another.&#;
Some media outlets, however, ascribed these sentiments directly to the pope, even though church teaching does not state that the lesbian orientation itself is a sin. As the pope said in his interview, as he has on other occasions: &#;It is a human condition.&#;
To help clarify things, Outreach asked the Holy Father three questions, in Spanish, and received a written response from him. We framed these questions as an interview, in direct th
Vatican clarifies pope's remarks on same-sex unions
The Vatican said comments by Pope Francis on civil union laws were taken out of context and did not actually mean a change in the Catholic Church's doctrine on the topic of homosexuals or support for queer marriage.
The pope made headlines when he said that homosexuals have a right to be in a family and that civil union laws covering homosexuals are needed. The remarks were part of a unused documentary on his life, "Francesco," which premiered at the Rome film festival on October
An "explanatory note" has now been sent by the Vatican's Secretariat of Declare its ambassadors and bishops was posted on Sunday on the Facebook page of the Vatican's ambassador to Mexico. On Monday, a Vatican source confirmed the authenticity of the letter.
"More than a year ago, during an interview, Pope Francis answered two different questions at two alternative times that, in the aforementioned documentary, were edited and published as a single answer without proper contextualization, which has led to confusion," the letter read.
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Pope Francis and far too much "faggotry"
You can rely on Pope Francis. He regularly causes head-scratching with thoughtless words or questionable decisions. However, the current case is undoubtedly a new short in terms of verbal derailment: "Active" homosexual men could not be admitted to seminaries because there was already "too much faggotry" there anyway, according to the pontiff in front of an assembled team of bishops.
This papal statement quite rightly caused outrage – even if the Vatican has since apologised for it: When the head of billion Catholics worldwide uses the legal title "faggot", it is a slap in the face for all homosexual people – not just aspiring priests. Imagine a German bishop or politician using such a term. Unthinkable.
But even apart from the derogatory, even insulting preference of words, the Pope's utterance is evidence of church thinking that urgently needs to be scrutinised: The Vatican's current guidelines state that "practising homosexuals" and men who "have deep-seated lgbtq+ tendencies" are excluded from the priesthood. What does this signify, pl
Pope Francis and far too much "faggotry"
You can rely on Pope Francis. He regularly causes head-scratching with thoughtless words or questionable decisions. However, the current case is undoubtedly a new short in terms of verbal derailment: "Active" homosexual men could not be admitted to seminaries because there was already "too much faggotry" there anyway, according to the pontiff in front of an assembled team of bishops.
This papal statement quite rightly caused outrage – even if the Vatican has since apologised for it: When the head of billion Catholics worldwide uses the legal title "faggot", it is a slap in the face for all homosexual people – not just aspiring priests. Imagine a German bishop or politician using such a term. Unthinkable.
But even apart from the derogatory, even insulting preference of words, the Pope's utterance is evidence of church thinking that urgently needs to be scrutinised: The Vatican's current guidelines state that "practising homosexuals" and men who "have deep-seated lgbtq+ tendencies" are excluded from the priesthood. What does this signify, pl