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		</div><p>Pope Francis said gays and all the other people the church has marginalised, such as the poor and the exploited, deserve an apology.</p>
<p>Francis was asked on Sunday en route home from Armenia if he agreed with one of his top advisers, German Cardinal Reinhard Marx, 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.</p>
<p>Francis responded with a variation of his famous &#8220;Who am I to judge?&#8221; comment and a repetition of church teaching that gays must not be discriminated against but treated with respect.</p>
<p>He said some politicised behaviours of the homosexual community can be condemned for being &#8220;a bit offensive for others&#8221;. But he said: &#8220;Someone who has this condition, who has goodwill and is searching for God, who are we to judge?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We must accompany them,&#8221; Francis said.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think the church must not only apologise &#8230; to a gay person it offended, but we must apologise to the poor, to women who have been exploited, to children forced into labour, apologise for having blessed so many weapons&#8221; and for having failed to accompany families who faced divorces or experienced other problems.</p>
<p>Francis uttered his &#8220;Who am I to judge?&#8221; comment during his first airborne press conference in 2013, signalling a new era of acceptance and welcome for gays in the church.</p>
<p>Francis followed up by meeting with gay and transgender faithful, and most significantly, by responding to claims that he met with anti-gay marriage campaigner Kim Davis during his US visit.</p>
<p>He said the only personal meeting he held in Washington was with his gay former student and his partner.</p>
<p>Despite such overtures, however, many gay Catholics are still waiting for progress after a two-year consultation of the church on family issues failed to chart concrete, new pastoral avenues for them.</p>
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