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• THE POPE SAYS GOD MA GAY PEOPLE JT AS WE SHOULD BE – HERE’S WHY HIS MENTS MATTER
• ‘GOD MA YOU THIS WAY,’ POPE IS SAID TO HAVE TOLD GAY MAN
• POPE FRANCIS TELLS GAY MAN: ‘GOD MA YOU LIKE THAT AND LOV YOU LIKE THAT’
• POPE FRANCIS REPORTEDLY TELLS GAY MAN, 'GOD MA YOU THAT WAY AND LOV YOU'
• POPE FRANCIS TELLS GAY MAN: 'GOD MA YOU LIKE THIS'

THE POPE SAYS GOD MA GAY PEOPLE JT AS WE SHOULD BE – HERE’S WHY HIS MENTS MATTER

It is immensely powerful to hear that Pope Francis, the lear of the Roman Catholic church, reportedly told Juan Carlos Cz, a gay man: “God ma you like this and lov you like this. Lbian, gay, bi and trans people exist every muny, om every ethnic background and every relign.

AdvertisementSKIP Casilli/RtersMay 21, 2018ROME — A Chilean survivor of cleril sex abe has said that Pope Francis told him a private meetg this month that God had ma him gay and that both God and the pontiff loved him that way, a remarkable exprsn of cln for the lear of the Roman Catholic Church.

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

“He said to me, ‘Juan Carlos, that’s not a problem, ’ ” said Juan Carlos Cz, the abe survivor, scribg havg told the pope he was gay a long meetg the Vatin.

POPE FRANCIS TELLS GAY MAN: ‘GOD MA YOU LIKE THAT AND LOV YOU LIKE THAT’

”The Vatin cled to ment on the pope’s private Cz had already said that Francis had apologized the meetg for the large-sle sexual abe sndal volvg Chilean clergy members, but over the weekend, he also told the Spanish newspaper El País about the pope’s remarks about his homosexualy. ”In July 2013, the pope rpond to qutns about a supposed “gay lobby” the Vatin by sayg “Who am I to judge, ” a remark that ed celebratn among liberals and nsternatn among nservativ. Cz add to the bate over whether Francis believ homosexualy is a choice.

Vatin officials, however, utned agast terpretg the pontiff’s pastoral outreach as a five lg on the nature-vers-nurture qutn or as a change church Catechism of the Catholic Church stat that people wh “homosexual tennci” “mt be accepted wh rpect, passn, and sensivy, ” but also lls a “ep-seated” homosexual clatn and s acts “trsilly disorred” and “ntrary to the natural law. Archbishop Matteo Maria Zuppi of Bologna, sometim lled the “Bergogl of Italy” for his siary to Francis, the former Je Mar Bergogl, published on Monday a preface to the Italian versn of “Buildg a Bridge, ” a book by the Amerin Ju prit Jam Mart about reachg out to gay Catholics. “The tent of the book is to help pastors velop an attu of unrstandg, as well as a pacy for acpaniment, towards their homosexual brothers and sisters, ” the archbishop pope has been creasgly assertive over the sprg, five years to his papacy, pecially after he seemed hobbled by missteps on the Chilean sexual abe announced on Saturday that Ósr Romero, a Salvadoran bishop shot and killed by right-wg forc for preachg agast ary opprsn and Amerin meddlg, would be nonized next day, he rhaped the College of Cardals, which will choose his succsor.

POPE FRANCIS REPORTEDLY TELLS GAY MAN, 'GOD MA YOU THAT WAY AND LOV YOU'

Cz, Francis was cidly on the si of the victims and entirely welg of the Chilean’s sexual Cz said that his lawyer warned him 2009 that the church would foc on his homosexualy, leavg him vulnerable and threateng to make life extremely difficult for said that his lawyer later told him that Cardal Francis Javier Errázuriz, a nfidant of Francis, had raised the qutn of whether Mr. Cz said, “I was gay and I might have liked . Cz acknowledged that he was gay and, jokgly, not the rernatn of Sat Aloysi Gonzaga, a mol of the virtue of pury, but someone who tried to be “a good person.

Cz said that sce the article El País was published over the weekend, some of those gay Catholic iends had wrten to him sayg of the pope, “Did he really tell you that?

A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 7 of the New York edn wh the headle: ‘God Ma You This Way, ’ Pope Is Said to Have Told Gay Man.

POPE FRANCIS TELLS GAY MAN: 'GOD MA YOU LIKE THIS'

Gay man: Pope told me 'God ma you like that'. A victim of cleril sexual abe has said that Pope Francis told him that God ma him gay and that his sexualy “do not matter.

The Pope’s words would amount to a signifint parture om the teachg of the Roman Catholic Church, which nsirs homosexualy “objectively disorred” and ntrary to God’s law.

Pope Francis reportedly told a gay man om Chile who was visg the Vatin that God ma him that way and lov him the way he Carlos Cz, who was reportedly a victim of sexual abe at the hands of a prit, reportedly spent days at the Vatin to talk about his reportedly told El Pais, a Spanish newspaper, that the two had a nversatn about his homosexualy and said he was told, “Juan Carlos, I don’t re about you beg gay. ”The Los Angel Tim reported that the Vatin did not nfirm the pope’s ments given that was a private pope has upheld Catholic teachg on homosexualy, reeratg the church's opposn to same-sex relatnships.