For a few days now, the comment that came out of the mouth of the Pope Francisco in a closed-door meeting in the Vatican with Italian bishops of the Italian Episcopal Confederation (CEI), with whom he defended the official position of the Church of not admitting homosexuals in seminaries: “too much faggot already“. The phrase surprised more than one prelate sitting in front of Bergoglio.
It happened last Monday, May 20, in the closed-door meeting between Francis and the Italian bishops who arrived in Rome to participate in the general assembly.
At the meeting they were talking about a very serious issue that has been worrying the CEI for several months: whether to admit openly homosexual candidates to the seminars and to what extent. And Francis, although he reiterated as always the need to welcome “everyone,” would have been very rigid in this regard, reiterating his “no” to the openings of the majority of the bishops.
And he would have said it in his own way, thinking of using a colloquial tone in Italian, which is not his mother tongue, without being aware of the offensive nature of the term. “There is already too much frociaggine.”
Some Italian bishops confirmed the Pontiff’s statement and clarified that more than shame, the Pope’s departure was received with laughter of disbelief among the prelates present at the meeting.
Bergoglio’s blunder
In Roman dialect, an outburst that leaked in the last few hours is causing controversy between the Pro-Life movements of the Catholic Church – which have already expressed their support for the Pontiff arguing “finally Bergoglio expressed himself in this way” – and the homosexual and LGBT people who could accuse him of homophobia, given the expression that the Pontiff would have used as a joke.
During the meeting with the bishops, the entry of young homosexuals into seminaries was discussed, among other things. A hypothesis to which Bergoglio reiterated his opposition. And it would be precisely in that conversational phase of the meeting, after having listened to many coincident sources, when the Pope would have pronounced the phrase.
During the question and answer session, always behind closed doors, a bishop asked Bergoglio how he should behave if a homosexual person asked to enter the seminary. The Pope recalled that every person must be respected regardless of their sexual orientation, but reiterated his opposition to the entry of homosexual men into the Church.
To justify his position, Bergoglio would have said that it is necessary to set some limits to avoid the risk that those who choose the priesthood continue to lead a double life and have sexual relations with people of the same sex. What surprised more than one bishop was particularly the reference to the term “faggot” which, according to Bergoglio, would already be present in some Italian seminaries.
Source: Ambito
