The week has not been the best for Pope Francis. Or at least for the strength of his public discourse regarding homosexuals and women. On Monday it was learned that the Pope had used the term “faggot” to point out to 200 bishops that there are too many homosexuals in the seminaries and they should not admit them. And on Thursday, another Italian media published that, in a new closed-door meeting, this time with young priests, he encouraged them to put aside gossip and gossip because “they are a woman’s thing.” “We wear pants, we must say things,” he insisted, according to the Italian media, asking that priests face certain issues.
The two episodes clash squarely with two of the themes with which Francis has tried to convince public opinion of a certain openness of the Church in recent years. In the women’s section, Francis has made gestures towards the inclusion of women in decision-making bodies and executive positions in the Church and the Vatican. He has clearly closed the door on his ordination as a deaconess, but has insisted on an idea of feminizing the Church and in late March, for example, he chose a women’s prison for the tradition of washing the feet of inmates. His comments and humorous opinions in private, however, go in another direction.
On another occasion, during the synod organized to combat abuse in the Church, the Pope opined that giving more roles to women in the Church would not solve the problem, but said that the feminine “style” must be integrated into the thinking of the institution. . Furthermore, the Pontiff stated that “inviting a woman to speak is not entering into the modality of ecclesiastical feminism, because in the end all feminism ends up being machismo with skirts.”
Francis apologized in a statement from the Vatican press office on Tuesday for having said in a meeting with 200 Italian bishops that there is “too much faggot” in the seminaries and that homosexuals should not be accepted. The Pontiff made these shocking statements in a closed-door meeting at the Vatican. In his response to the commotion, Francisco assured that he did not want to be “homophobic” and asked for forgiveness “to anyone who might feel offended by the use of a term that others have referred to.”
Last Monday, May 20, in the former synod hall of the Vatican, Francis met with the Italian bishops during their spring assembly. Since the beginning of his pontificate, this has been a crucial moment for a direct and unfiltered exchange between Francis and the Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI), with questions and answers behind closed doors, in a fraternal but frank atmosphere. On this occasion, the question of the supposedly high rate of homosexuality in Catholic seminaries arose again.
As first published on the website Dagospy —exclusive information, somewhat hooligan—and then confirmed the newspaper The Republic, the Pope was categorical: homosexual people should not be admitted to seminaries. During the conversation, which according to the sources cited by the Italian media was very colloquial, the Argentine pontiff commented in a joking tone that there is already too much “faggot.” [el término en italiano fue frociaggine]” in certain seminars. An idea, that of the supposed high presence of homosexual people in seminaries, is actually shared by a large part of the Church, which also extends this assessment to many other areas, including the Vatican itself.
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