1197: Pope Francis
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2025/05/13
(2013) “If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?”
(2023) “Being homosexual is not a crime. It is not a crime. Yes, but it’s a sin. Fine, but first let’s distinguish between a sin and a crime.”
(2024) “There is already an air of frociaggine [in seminaries].” (Vatican issued apology.)
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(2020) “Homosexual people have the right to be in a family. They are children of God… What we have to have is a civil union law; that way they are legally covered.”
(2016) “There are absolutely no grounds for considering homosexual unions to be in any way similar or even remotely analogous to God’s plan for marriage and family.”
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(2015) “Jesus is the only door to enter the Kingdom of God.”
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(2014): “The Church does not change her teaching on the indissolubility of marriage.”
(2016) “In certain cases, this can include the help of the sacraments.”
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(2013): “Proselytism is solemn nonsense, it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.”
(Various) “The Church is born to evangelize.” (Quoting Paul VI)
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(2013): “Such an economy [Capitalist] kills.”
(2023) “I do not condemn capitalism… I am in favor of what John Paul II defined as a social economy of the market.”
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(2015) “It’s not true that to be a good Catholic ‘you have to be like rabbits.’ Instead ‘responsible parenthood’ requires that couples regulate the births of their children.”
(2015): “A society with a greedy generation, that doesn’t want to surround itself with children, that considers them a burden… is a depressed society. Opting not to have children is a selfish choice.”
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(2022): “There is no such thing as a just war: They do not exist!”
(2022): “I am close to the suffering women and men who are defending their land” (Ukraine).
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(2017) “Abortion understood as the quest to eliminate a human being is always a murder.”
(2024) “Both [candidates] are against life, both the one who throws out migrants and the one who kills children.” (Paraphrase)
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(2015) “You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others. There is a limit. Every religion has its dignity.”
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(2013) “If they accept the Lord and have goodwill, who am I to judge them?”
(2015) “Let’s think of… the gender theory, that does not recognize the order of creation.”
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(2023) “There is a very strong, organized, reactionary attitude in the U.S. church, which is backward.”
(2023): “The vision of the doctrine of the church as a monolith is wrong.”
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