Pope Francis says homosexualy "is not a crime," but gay sex is "a s" - CBS News

Contents:

• PAPAL RIGNATN LKED TO QUIRY TO 'VATIN GAY OFFICIALS', SAYS PAPER
• POPE FRANCIS SAYS HOMOSEXUALY "IS NOT A CRIME," BUT GAY SEX IS "A S"
• POPE FRANCIS LLS FOR END TO ANTI-GAY LAWS AND LGBTQ+ WELE OM CHURCH
• POPE BENEDICT XVI RIGNED PARTLY BEE OF POWERFUL VATIN GAY LOBBY, ITALIAN PAPER CLAIMS
• POPE BENEDICT'S RIGNATN LKED TO GAY NCLAVE: REPORT
• DID A SECRET VATIN REPORT ON GAY SEX AND BLACKMAIL BRG DOWN THE POPE?
• POPE RIGNED BEE OF VATIN GAY LOBBY, ITALIAN PAPER CLAIMS
• POPE RIGNS 2013: GAY SEX RGS, 'THE FILTH' RPTG THE WHY THE POPE REALLY QU
• ‘GOD MA YOU THIS WAY,’ POPE IS SAID TO HAVE TOLD GAY MAN

PAPAL RIGNATN LKED TO QUIRY TO 'VATIN GAY OFFICIALS', SAYS PAPER

A potentially explosive report has lked the rignatn of Pope Benedict XVI to the disvery of a work of gay prelat the Vatin, some of whom – the report said – were beg blackmailed by pope's spokman cled to nfirm or ny the report, which was rried by the Italian daily newspaper La paper said the pope had taken the cisn on 17 December that he was gog to rign – the day he received a dossier piled by three rdals legated to look to the so-lled "Vatileaks" May Pope Benedict's butler, Paolo Gabriele, was arrted and charged wh havg stolen and leaked papal rrponnce that picted the Vatin as a seethg hotbed of trigue and fightg. The sixth forbids adultery, but is lked Catholic doctre to the proscribg of homosexual Repubbli said the rdals' report intified a seri of meetg plac and around Rome. Sce announcg his parture he has twice apparently referred to machatns si the Vatin, sayg that divisns "mar the face of the church", and warned agast "the temptatns of power" Repubbli's report was the latt a strg of claims that a gay work exists the Vatin.

A few months later a weekly news magaze ed hidn meras to rerd prits visg gay clubs and bars and havg Vatin do not nmn homosexuals.

But teach that gay sex is "trsilly disorred". Pope Benedict has barred sexually active gay men om studyg for the prithood. Pope Francis: Homosexualy "isn't a crime".

POPE FRANCIS SAYS HOMOSEXUALY "IS NOT A CRIME," BUT GAY SEX IS "A S"

Rome — Pope Francis has lled laws crimalizg homosexualy as fundamentally "unfair, " makg clear that the md of the lear of the Catholic Church, "beg homosexual is not a crime. Francis reerated, however, church teachg that engagg homosexual activy is sful. Pope signals support for same-sex unns parture om Catholic Church stance on gay rights.

Catholic Church teachg says that gay people mt be weled to the church and treated wh rpect and kdns, spe the fact that homosexual acts are nsired "trsilly disorred. "However, Pope Francis has repeatedly champned homosexual rights and advoted for cln of LGBTQ people Catholic life. Stat still have laws agast sodomy, spe the Supreme Court clarg them unnstutnal pope said that some bishops om untri that crimalize homosexualy support the laws bee they're part of the lol culture, and he lled on those bishops to unrgo a procs of "nversn, " orr to wele LGBQT people to their mistry "wh tenrns.

POPE FRANCIS LLS FOR END TO ANTI-GAY LAWS AND LGBTQ+ WELE OM CHURCH

Pope Francis has cricised laws that crimalise homosexualy as “unjt”, sayg God lov all his children jt as they are, and llg on Catholic bishops who support the laws to wele LGBTQ+ people to the church. “Beg homosexual isn’t a crime, ” Francis said on Tuday an terview.

Francis acknowledged that Catholic bishops some parts of the world support laws that crimalise homosexualy or discrimate agast LGBTQ+ people, and he himself referred to the issue terms of “s”. Francis’s ments, which were hailed by gay rights advot as a tone, are the first uttered by a pope about such laws. Gay rights advot say the antiquated laws are ed to jtify harassment, and pot to new legislatn, such as the “Don’t say gay” law Florida, which forbids stctn on sexual orientatn and genr inty om krgarten up to third gra, as evince of ntued efforts to margalise LGBTQ+ UN has repeatedly lled for an end to laws crimalisg homosexualy outright, sayg they vlate rights to privacy and eedom om discrimatn and are a breach of untri’ obligatns unr ternatnal law to protect the human rights of all people, regardls of their sexual orientatn or genr inty.

Francis quoted the Catholic techism sayg gay people mt be weled and rpected, and should not be margalised or discrimated agast. Some Catholic bishops have strongly upheld them as nsistent wh Vatin teachg, while others have lled for them to be overturned as a vlatn of basic human Tuday, Francis said there need to be a distctn between a crime and a s wh regard to homosexualy.

POPE BENEDICT XVI RIGNED PARTLY BEE OF POWERFUL VATIN GAY LOBBY, ITALIAN PAPER CLAIMS

Church teachg holds that homosexual acts are sful, or “trsilly disorred”, but that gay people mt be treated wh digny and rpect. Francis has not changed the church’s teachg, which has long riled gay Catholics. But he has ma reachg out to LGBTQ+ people a hallmark of his pope’s ments didn’t specifilly addrs transgenr or nonbary people, jt homosexualy, but advot of greater LGBTQ+ cln the Catholic Church hailed the pope’s ments as a momento advance.

POPE BENEDICT'S RIGNATN LKED TO GAY NCLAVE: REPORT

Was the pope unr the fluence of a secretive "gay lobby" wh the Vatin self? On Thursday, the popular paper published an article allegg that Pope Benedict XVI's cisn to rign this month was partly prompted by a report that acced Vatin officials of beg unr the fluence of several ternal lobbi, reportedly cludg a gay Irish Tim reports that Benedict missned the report after the Vatileaks sndal broke last year. " The paper also claims the report tails rmatn about sexual meetgs anized by members of a gay unrground work, who got together venu across Rome and Vatin Cy.

DID A SECRET VATIN REPORT ON GAY SEX AND BLACKMAIL BRG DOWN THE POPE?

(The sixth mandment referencg adultery has historilly been tied to the Catholic Church's doctre banng homosexualy.

Sndalo revelatns volvg the Vatin and gay sex have been published by La Repubbli before. In 2010, the newspaper revealed wiretaps and police documents that showed a Vatin chorister and an ele papal her had been volved wh a gay prostut rg. Pope Benedict's stunng rignatn is beg lked to a bombshell report exposg a secret gay nclave at the Vatin beg blackmailed over acts of a "worldly nature" wh 300-page dossier — piled by three rdals vtigatg the theft of Vatin documents — was given to the Pope on Dec.

POPE RIGNED BEE OF VATIN GAY LOBBY, ITALIAN PAPER CLAIMS

17, the same day he cid to rign, an Italian newspaper reported days after receivg the report, Pope Benedict railed agast gay marriage and homosexualy, llg "the manipulatn of nature.

Members of the gay lobby clud high-rankg Catholic clergy who anized sex romps at a Rome sna, a suburban Rome villa and a bety parlor, acrdg to the report.

POPE RIGNS 2013: GAY SEX RGS, 'THE FILTH' RPTG THE WHY THE POPE REALLY QU

Quotg a high-placed Vatin source, La Repubbli revealed members of the gay factn were beg subjected to "external fluence" or blackmail, om laymen wh whom they had relatnships of a "worldly nature. "Male prostut — who had pictur of the prits drsed drag and others performg gay sex acts — were behd the extortn, The Daily Beast this photo released by Italian Polizia Morna police magaze staff, an aerial view of the St.

(Polizia Morna/AP)"Everythg revolv around the nonobservance of the Sixth and Seventh Commandments, " a source close to the rdals who prepared the report told La Sixth Commandment stcts: "Thou shall not m adultery" and unr Catholic doctre also forbids homosexualy. Acrdg to the Italian paper La Repubbli, the real reason Pope Benedict XVI rigned li a 300-page Vatin dossier that allegedly found an unrground work of high-rankg gay clergy, plete wh sex parti and shady algs wh the Vatin bank.

But acrdg to the major Italian newspaper La Repubbli, the real reason he rigned is bee he did not want to al the repercsns of a secret 300-page Vatin dossier that allegedly found, among other thgs, an unrground work of high-rankg gay clergy, plete wh sex parti and shady algs wh the already sndal-ridn Vatin bank. The dossier alleg that a gay lobby exists wh the Church, and has some sort of ntrol on the reers of those the Vatin. "The rdals were said to have unvered an unrground gay work, whose members anise sexual meetgs several venu Rome and Vatin Cy, leavg them prone to blackmail, " reads The Sydney Morng Herald's translatn of the report, and The Guardian adds: "They clud a villa outsi the Italian pal, a sna a Rome suburb, a bety parlour the centre, and a former universy rince that was e by a provcial Italian archbishop.

‘GOD MA YOU THIS WAY,’ POPE IS SAID TO HAVE TOLD GAY MAN

" Some important ntext on this still powerful group: This isn't the first time there's been talk of a gay factn si the hight ranks of the Church. And " 2007 a senr official was spend om the ngregatn, or partment, for the prithood, after he was filmed a 'stg' anised by an Italian televisn programme while apparently makg sexual overtur to a younger man, " acrdg to The Guardian — evince the paper says nnects to a gay work wh the Holy Repubbli's sourcg seems to have been rroborated.