Pope Francis has clarified his comments about homosexuality, after he labelled it a sin in a recent interview.
Pope Francis has moved to clarify comments about homosexuality in a recent interview after he was reported to have labelled it a sin.laws criminalising homosexuality were ‘unjust’The Argentine pontiff said ‘it’s not a crime’, before playing devil’s advocate by imagining someone raising official church teaching to point out: ‘Yes, but it’s a sin.’
Now, in a note to James Martin SJ, whose Outreach ministry for LGBTQ Catholics he has praised, the Pope reaffirmed that homosexuality ‘is not a crime’ and said he spoke out ‘in order to stress that criminalisation is neither good nor just’. But in a nod to his case-by-case approach to pastoral ministry, he noted that even that teaching is subject to consideration of the circumstances, ‘which may decrease or eliminate fault’.Francis acknowledged he could have been clearer in his comments to the AP.
‘As you can see, I was repeating something in general,’ he wrote. ‘I should have said: “It is a sin, as is any sexual act outside of marriage”.
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