...Argentine liberation theologist, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He was elected pope in 2013. Rather than setting up shop in Avignon, where he belongs, the first Jesuit Pope chose to reside in the Domus Sanctae Marthae guesthouse instead of the papal apartments. He is big on climate change, against consumerism, and in favor of throwing a blanket over homosexual activity within the clergy. He's not real sure about the Resurrection, about Christ's divinity, and a few other things that would have gotten him burned at the stake a few hundred years ago, but he's hot for a certain South American Earth Mother Goddess...said in an interview published Monday (Jan. 29) that the case of the Church in Africa was "special," with regards to the extra-liturgical blessings proposed for same sex-couples.
As in 'short bus' special?
He told Italian newspaper La Stampa that "homosexuality was something 'ugly' from a cultural point of view" for Africans.
It's not for sophisticated Euros and South Americans, of course.
He was being asked about the opposition a document he supports has attracted.
Particularly the rolling eyes and gagging noises. And the fingers warding off the
Declaration Fiducia supplicans, published on December 18, opens the possibility of blessing couples whose situation is considered "irregular" in the Catholic church. Those include unmarried couples, divorced-and-remarried couples, and same-sex couples.
Orthodox Christians consider divorce a sin. Being a sin, it can be forgiven. Heterodox Christians either look at it as unforgivable, or don't look at it at all, depending on day of the week and whether they're Marxists.
"The Gospel is to sanctify everyone [...]" "we are all sinners: why should we make a list of sinners who can enter the Church and a list of sinners who cannot be in the Church?," he asked.
How very Orthodox of him.