Pope Francis: Christians should homosexuals ask for forgiveness. Who are we to judge?

AUTHOR: Hina

POSTED: 27/06/2016. at 09:13

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http://www.jutarnji.hr/vijesti/svijet/papa-franjo-krscani-bi-trebali-homoseksualce-zamoliti-za-oprost.-tko-smo-mi-da-sudimo/4473191/

"Christians should continually ask for forgiveness, not only homosexuals but also the poor, the exploited women and children forced to work ... ', recommended the Pope.

ROME - Who are we to judge, repeated Pope Francis saying that Christians should ask forgiveness from homosexuals, and women and many others reported journalists to whom he said that they had misinterpreted his statement about women deaconesses, and justified his use of word "genocide" against the Armenian people in the Ottoman Empire.

Pope on the plane, which was returning from Armenia reminded that Catholic doctrine teaches that homosexuals "must not be discriminated against, but respected."

"A person living in such conditions, there is good's will, seek God, and who are we to judge it?" he said repeating what he said at his first press conference held on the aircraft in summer of 2013, when he was returning from Rio de Janeiro to Rome .

Christians should apologize and ask for forgiveness not only from gay men, but "the poor, the exploited women and children forced to work", to which they closed their eyes, but they should ask for forgiveness also "because they have blessed so many weapons," he said .

"Christians should continually ask for forgiveness," the Pope recommended.

He pointed out that he himself lived in Buenos Aires immersed "in the narrow Catholic culture," but that some homosexuals sometimes "manifest too aggressively," which "different mentalities" incorrectly interpreted.

The journalists Pope objected that they have distorted his thought in May when he agreed to the formation of the committee that will examine the role of women Deaconess in the first centuries of Christianity.

"I was a bit angry with the journalists," because to announce that "The church opens the way to Deaconess', as I read in the paper" was not true ", said Francis.

He said that will establish a commission that will study the role of deaconess who assisted the priests at the beginning of Christianity. Their role was to replace the priests in the duties which they are not able to perform: for example, to determine traces of blows to the woman who complained that her husband beats her.

Ordination of women Deaconess would be a revolution for the Catholic Church in which only men can give the sacraments.

Catholic deacons may perform baptisms, weddings and funerals, but I can not celebrate Mass alone nor hear confessions.

Pope on the plane justified the use of the term "genocide" during his visit to the Armenian capital Yerevan on Friday, when he described the mass slaughter. He said it would be "strange" not to repeat the word that has already been handed down in Rome and then insulted Turkey.

"Here I use the word not to offend, but objectively," said the Pope.

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister on Saturday was rated "inappropriate" as Pope Francis labeled as genocide the massacre of Armenians in 1915 committed by Ottoman forces, and said that it reflects "the Crusader spirit 'of the papacy.

"I've always talked about three genocide in the last century: the Armenian genocide and the genocides committed by Hitler and Stalin."

Large forces is resented "that detracted views" at a time when these genocides occurred.

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