Pope Francis pulled a surprise on reporters when he walked back to
the press section of his Alitalia papal flight from Brazil and entered
into an open press conference that lasted more than an hour. The Pope
gave the press what Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton offered as
presidents—a casual question and answer session that was on the record.
The biggest headline from the Pope’s remarks was not what he had to
say about the scandals at the Vatican Bank, but what he said about
homosexuality and, in particular, homosexuals in the priesthood. The key
sentence in the Pope’s remarks is this: “If a person is gay and seeks
the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge that person?”
The papal remarks put the international press into a frenzy.
Headlines across the world announced a revolution in Roman Catholic
moral teaching, a changed position on homosexuality, or at least an
historic “new openness” on the issue of homosexuality. Continue at Al Mohler
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