Pope Francis says church must apologise to gays and other marginalised groups

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Pope Francis said gays and all the other people the church has marginalised&comma; such as the poor and the exploited&comma; deserve an apology&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Francis was asked on Sunday en route home from Armenia if he agreed with one of his top advisers&comma; German Cardinal Reinhard Marx&comma; who told a conference in Dublin in the days after the deadly Orlando gay club attack that the church owes an apology to gays for having marginalised them&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Francis responded with a variation of his famous &&num;8220&semi;Who am I to judge&quest;&&num;8221&semi; comment and a repetition of church teaching that gays must not be discriminated against but treated with respect&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He said some politicised behaviours of the homosexual community can be condemned for being &&num;8220&semi;a bit offensive for others&&num;8221&semi;&period; But he said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;Someone who has this condition&comma; who has goodwill and is searching for God&comma; who are we to judge&quest;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;We must accompany them&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Francis said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;I think the church must not only apologise &&num;8230&semi; to a gay person it offended&comma; but we must apologise to the poor&comma; to women who have been exploited&comma; to children forced into labour&comma; apologise for having blessed so many weapons&&num;8221&semi; and for having failed to accompany families who faced divorces or experienced other problems&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Francis uttered his &&num;8220&semi;Who am I to judge&quest;&&num;8221&semi; comment during his first airborne press conference in 2013&comma; signalling a new era of acceptance and welcome for gays in the church&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Francis followed up by meeting with gay and transgender faithful&comma; and most significantly&comma; by responding to claims that he met with anti-gay marriage campaigner Kim Davis during his US visit&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He said the only personal meeting he held in Washington was with his gay former student and his partner&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Despite such overtures&comma; however&comma; many gay Catholics are still waiting for progress after a two-year consultation of the church on family issues failed to chart concrete&comma; new pastoral avenues for them&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed11d66260e">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; &lpar; window&period;isWatlV1 &quest;&quest; false &rpar; &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&sol;&sol; Use Aditude scripts&period;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings &equals; window&period;tudeMappings &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings&period;push&lpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;divId&colon; 'atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed11d66260e'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;format&colon; 'belowpost'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; document&period;readyState &equals;&equals;&equals; 'loading' &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;document&period;addEventListener&lpar; 'DOMContentLoaded'&comma; window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; else &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback&lpar;&rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;script>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>


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