The Religion News Service point out a few highlights:
- “We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. This is not possible. I have not spoken much about these things, and I was reprimanded for that … The teaching of the church, for that matter, is clear and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.”
- “A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‘Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person, or reject and condemn this person? We must always consider the person.”
- “My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative … but I have never been a right-winger.”
- “We should not even think, therefore, that ‘thinking with the church’ means only thinking with the hierarchy of the church.”
- “If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing.”
- “I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.”
*Updates:
Pope Francis Excommunicates Australian Priest Who Advocated For Gay Marriage And Female Clergy
and here
What Pope Francis Thinks About Women in the Church
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