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Today, April 21, 2025, Pope Francis passed away. Pope Francis has repeatedly urged acceptance of LGBTQ people and considered how finest the Roman Catholic Church can support and minister to them.
GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis said: “Pope Francis was a transformational leader who included LGBTQ people in historic ways. Having had the honor of conference with Pope Francis twice, I witnessed first-hand his dedication to make a Church for all, not just some. His principles of empathetic listening, inclusion, and compassion are exactly what this divided nature needs right now. When Pope Francis spoke out against the act of criminalizing LGBTQ people and when he famously spoke ‘who am I to judge,’ he created an example of unity that faith and civil leaders should follow.”
In 2023, and 2024, Pope Francis met with GLAAD staff, LGBTQ advocates from Uganda and Ghana-where the LGBTQ society is being targeted by anti-LGBTQ legislation, and genderqueer people, including transgender actress Nava Mau. Mau spoke about the meeting at this year’s GLAAD Media Awards: “(Pope Francis) told us he wishes us all the love and success we desire, and he told us that we should keep fighting.”
Pope Francis was a "real game-changer" when it came to the Catholic Church's treatment of gay people, a London LGBT+ faith group has said. Martin Pendergast, the secretary of the LGBT+ Catholics Westminster Pastoral Council, said the pontiff had turned away from "really quite offensive" statements made by his predecessors on issues of sexuality and gender identity. While Pope Francis maintained the Vatican's position that homosexual acts were sinful, he said gay people should not be marginalised from the Church, adding: "Who am I to judge?" The LGBT+ Catholics Westminster group met the Pope at the Vatican in 2019, which Mr Pendergast said caused controversy. "More conservative Catholics were up in arms because they saw this as the Pope affirming an LGBT collective such as we were and are," he said. He described the meeting as a "very significant step" in improving the Church's relations with the LGBT+ community. "It was a personal affirmation, but it was also an affirmation of the kind of minis 18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and superhuman nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. By Vatican News “I was simply referring to Catholic moral teaching, which says that every sexual act outside of marriage is a sin.” Pope Francis penned those words in response to a letter from Father James Martin, SJ, who carries out his apostolate among the LGBTQ community in the United States. The American Jesuit had written to the Holy Father following his recent interview with the Associated Press. The Pope's handwritten response in Spanish was posted on Father Martin's website, along with a translation in English. It was already clear from the context of the interview that the Pope had spoken of homosexuality, sense in that case "homosexual acts" and not homosexuality itself. In his letter, Pope Francis reiterated that his position is that of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, as he had already said in his first interview with reporters on the flight back from Brazil in 2013 ("If a person is gay and seeks God and has pleasant will, who am I to judge?"). Responding to Fr. Martin, the Pope stressed that, regarding sin, “one must also consider the circumstances, which m .'Pope Francis was game-changer for LGBT Catholics'
Pope Francis says homosexuality is a sin but not a crime
21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be intelligent, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.
24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever celebrated. Amen.
26 Because of this, God gave them ove
Pope sends letter to Fr. James Martin on homosexuality and sin
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