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<p>Pope's staff cle to nfirm or ny La Repubbli claims lkg 'Vatileaks' affair and disvery of 'blackmailed gay clergy'</p>

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

* pope resigned because he is gay *

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

LGBTQ+ advot hail Pope’s rejectn of sexual orientatn as crime and ll to bishops to rist anti-gay laws as ‘tone’ * pope resigned because he is gay *

Pope Benedict has barred sexually active gay men om studyg for the prithood. Pope Francis: Homosexualy "isn't a crime".

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

Report: Pope's Rignatn Lked To Secret Vatin Gay Lobby * pope resigned because he is gay *

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.

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

Acrdg to the Italian paper&nbsp;<em>La Repubbli</em>,&nbsp;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&nbsp;Vatin bank. Here&#39;s what we know. * pope resigned because he is gay *

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 BENEDICT'S RIGNATN LKED TO GAY NCLAVE: REPORT

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”.

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

Francis’s ments, which were hailed by gay rights advot as a tone, are the first uttered by a pope about such laws.

POPE RIGNED BEE OF VATIN GAY LOBBY, ITALIAN PAPER CLAIMS

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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. Was the pope unr the fluence of a secretive "gay lobby" wh the Vatin self?

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