The Pope's position on gay people appears to contrast with that of his predecessors.

Pope Francis has said gay people should not be judged or marginalised.
Speaking to reporters on a flight back from Brazil, he said: "If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge him?"
The Pope's remarks are being seen as much more conciliatory than his predecessor's position on the issue.
Turning to the issue of women priests, he said the Church had spoken and had said"no", but the role of women should not be restricted.
"We cannot limit the role of women in the Church to altar girls or the president of a charity, there must be more," he said in a wide-ranging interview with Vatican journalists.
Five months after he took over from Pope Benedict, he said gay people should be fully accepted in society.
""The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains this very well," Pope Francis said.
"It says they should not be marginalised because of this but that they must be integrated into society."
But he condemned what he described as lobbying by gay people.
"The problem is not having this orientation," he said. "We must be brothers. The problem is lobbying by this orientation, or lobbies of greedy people, political lobbies, Masonic lobbies, so many lobbies. This is the worse problem."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23489702

dying religion trying to cling on.

Christianity is loosing it...........lol

FOLYKAZE: Christianity is loosing it...........lol

I agree.
Its quite sad.

I'm a catholic but someone should tell pope to shut up.
I go soon carry vex join mountain of high tension. Oku!

Indifferent: I'm a catholic but someone should tell pope to shut up.
I go soon carry vex join mountain of high tension. Oku!

If you think the white pope gives a damn about what you think, you must be high on something.

Alfa Seltzer:

If you think the white pope gives a Bleep about what you think, you must be high on something.

Whatever my opinion on the Vatican and Christianity, pope got my respect.

FOLYKAZE: Christianity is loosing it...........lol

How?

Indifferent: I'm a catholic but someone should tell pope to shut the fuk up.
I go soon carry vex join mountain of high tension. Oku!

You are aware that he backed up what he said with the Catechism of the Catholic Church, arent you?

End times pple where una dey, d pope is truly sick, next he will support rapist nd killers cos dey seek d face of God, rubbish, POPE IDOITA

FOLYKAZE: Christianity is loosing it...........lol

Christianity is not loosing it... Vatican HAS lost it.

italo:

You are aware that he backed up what he said with the Catechism of the Catholic Church, arent you?

Exactly. The church never teaches discrimination against them, She rather sees their taste as a grave disorder, yet She encourages them to seek the face of the lord, whose grace can make all things good. Yea its unfortunate when someone finds his or her sexual taste biased in that manner, the church sympathises with such a one, but calls him or her to a higher spiritual effort. The pope however, in line with the church, frowns at any propagation of a disorder as if it is right. This is what the lobbyists do.

na wa o

ednut1: End times pple where una dey, d pope is truly sick, next he will support rapist nd killers cos dey seek d face of God, rubbish, POPE IDOITA

What in his statement dont you agree with?

ledafaze:

Christianity is not loosing it... Vatican HAS lost it.

How?

When you keep silence while being aware of an evil being planned and you did not protest nor voice out, you become a part and parcel of such acts.

This one no be signs of end time again...

The END TIME is here!!!

This is freaking suprising. Hope the prophecy isn't true.

Eze nnaemeka: This is freaking suprising. Hope the prophecy isn't true.

What prophesy now?

If he actually said this, he is helding to joining gay couples in his church soonest.

I am very sure most nairalanders would misinterpret what the pope is trying to insinuate cos of lack of wisdom understanding his simple statement.Already I am seeing some bigoted illiterates making statements that makes me wonder why some ignoramus bigocony continue to reason with there nose rather than calming down, digest and think deeply on what the Pope is trying to say using there brains.
Most people would make silly statements just because they don't believe in the ideology of the Catholic church.Most people are hardcore Religiolistic and tribalistic in nature.

only those who think they have the right to judge others would condemn the Pope's remark or gay people...

What is worse than committing a sin is proudly defending it or looking for a way to present it as the right thing.

what am seeing here is different from what CNN reported.

its obvious nairaland owners are anti catholic, always looking for one thing to attack the church.

every sunday they post Adeboye and other pastors messages on front page but cannot post catholic stuff on front page. if its not mary then is purgatory or pope or anti christ.



THE GATES OF HELL WILL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST THE CHURCH ......................QED

We aren't telling you to judge them, but at least some preaching might make little changes.

Some people do not understand proverbs at all... What our Pope is trying to teach us is that " once gay people seeks the face of God almighty and do his good will, meaning repentance from the act through the grace of God almighty and God forgives, who is he to judge?
Remember a story about Paul in the bible who was killing christians just like Boko Haram but one day God arrested him, he repented and God made him one of his apostle.

What about Mary Magdalene whom people like you here nearly stoned to death because she was a prostitute but our Lord Jesus saved her and she repented. Today she is in heaven.

All these people mentioned here, are they different from gay people?

Boko haram people kills but does gay people do the same?

Please what we all need is prayer for them because tomorrow, one of us might bear a child that might become a gay and if that happens, what would you now do?

Pope is 100% right and I guess those kids here that drop out of school should keep quite here!!!.

Because he is one of them, but the religion he claim he is representing have stated their punishment

I just love this pope

Guush mehn!
I saw this thing on BBC and I was disappointed.

Different Popes different stance in one Religion..

All ya religious people how you all doing..

I expect to watch fight and argument on nairaland bai.. Oya gbagan.. Round one.. Fight..

Muslims, you can come and laff and amuse yourselves at xtains fighting against each other, that is not to say when Muslins too would be fighting themselves xtains won't laff ooo and that is not to say Xtains and muslims won't still have a Seperate fight later ooo,

But atleast its been bashing of Muslims since Senator Yerima's Childs-bride issues, nao let the Pope cause his own fracas for Bashing of xtains..

Religion is truly The Opium of the people..

We can Abolish Religion..
Yes we can..

Catholicism, Papacy and The Religion of Mary is losing it