The Pope Francisco He provided an extensive report where he addressed different topics, among which he touched on the Argentine economic reality, on which he launched a harsh criticism of the government: “In the year 55, when I finished my secondary school, the poverty level was 5%, today poverty is at 52%. What happened? Bad administration, bad policies.”
“Argentina right now, and I don’t do politics, I read the data, it has an impressive level of inflation,” Francisco said in an interview with The Associated Press. “There is a theological-cultural history, which says that the guardian angels of the countries went to complain to God and told him ‘you were unfair to us because you gave each of us wealth, mining, agriculture, livestock, and you gave the Argentines everything, everything, they have all the riches’. They say that God thought a little, and said: ‘To balance the days for Argentines’. Don’t get mad, it’s a joke, I’m Argentine, but there’s some truthwe did not finish carrying out our things ”.
Pope Francis asked Catholic bishops to support LGBT laws: “Being homosexual is not a crime
The Pope Francisco criticized the laws that criminalize the homosexuality What “unfair”I thought that God loves all his children just the way they are Y asked Catholic bishops to support measures that welcome LGBTQ people into the Church.
Interviewed by The Associated Press, the highest Pontiff clarified that “Being homosexual is not a crime” and recognized that the Catholic bishops in some parts of the world support laws that criminalize homosexuality or discriminate against the LGTBQ community.
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Anyway, Francis referred to homosexuality as a “sin” Y He attributed those attitudes to cultural contexts. “Also the bishop has a conversion process”, he said, adding that perhaps “show tenderness”. “Please, tenderness, as God has it with each one of us”express.
Laws that criminalize the LGBT community
For the Argentine Pope, homosexual people must be received and respected like any other person, without verse marginalized or discriminated. That spirit, in his opinion, is contrary to that proposed by the prohibitive laws that exist in Africa and the Middle East, which date from the British colonial era or were drawn up with an inspiration in Islamic law. And a large number of bishops around the world have defended them, aligning them with the conception mentioned before, that homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.
But USA too It has regulations that criminalize the community. More than a dozen states have anti-sodomy laws in force despite a Supreme Court ruling declaring them unconstitutional.
“Who am I to judge” the Pope wondered when asked in 2013 about a priest who was supposedly gay. The statement was very popular and gave a glimpse of the Pope’s position from the outset.
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