VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has told a young transgender person that 'God loves us as we are', his latest outreach gesture towards the LGBT community. His comments, released by Vatican media on Tuesday (July 25), were in a podcast in which Francis listened and responded to audio messages from young people ahead of a Catholic youth festival which he...
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has told a young transgender person that "God loves us as we are", his latest outreach gesture towards the LGBT community.
One of the young people was Giona, an Italian in their early 20s who said they were "torn by the dichotomy between [their Catholic] faith and transgender identity". The Catholic Church teaches that members of the LGBT community should be treated with respect, compassion and sensitivity, and their human rights respected.
Francis has famously said "who am I to judge" in an answer to a question specifically about homosexuals, and has condemned laws criminalising members of the LGBT community as a sin and an injustice.
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