The Vatican released this Tuesday (28) a statement in which Pope Francis apologized after Italian newspapers reported that he had used a foul term to refer to homosexuals during a closed-door meeting with bishops on the 20th at the Vatican.
“The Pope never intended to offend or express himself in homophobic terms and extends his apologies to those who felt offended by the use of a term, as reported by others,” the Vatican said.
“How did he [papa Francisco] said on several occasions, ‘in the Church there is room for everyone, for everyone! No one is useless, no one is superfluous, there is room for everyone. The way we are, all of us’”, the statement pointed out.
The Italian newspapers La Repubblica and Corriere della Sera had reported on Monday (27) that, at last week’s meeting, when the possibility of admitting openly homosexual candidates to seminaries was discussed, Pope Francis, “while reiterating as always the need to welcome all people” (according to Corriere della Sera), he said “no”, and in a “colloquial tone”, he stated that in the seminars “there is already too much ‘frociaggine’”.
The term pimp in Italian can be translated as “faggot”. Bishops who participated in the meeting told Corriere della Sera that, “instead of embarrassment”, the sentence was received with “some incredulous laughter”, as a “gaffe” committed by Francis: as Italian was not his mother tongue, “it was evident that the Pope was not aware of how offensive the word is in Italian”, they argued.
The information was initially published on the Dagospia website and was later published by La Repubblica and Corriere della Sera.
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