Wednesday, March 27

Pope Francis: “Ignoring a son or daughter with homosexual tendencies is a lack of maternity and paternity”



The Pope Francisco He asked parents this Wednesday to accompany and not condemn a son who has a different sexual orientation, during the general audience held in the Paul VI Hall of the Vatican. “I think of parents in the face of their children’s problems,” reflected the pontiff, who named those “who see the sexual orientations” of his disciples and asked “accompany the children and not hide in condemning behaviors.

Francisco went on to speak of parents who lose their children due to illness or traffic accidents, who see that their children do not go to school. “So many problems from parents, we thought how to help them. To them I say: do not be afraid. There is so much pain, but think about the Lord and how Joseph solved the problems. Never condemn a son,” he added.

and remembered when in Buenos Aires I saw the queues in front of the prisons and “there were the mothers, those mothers who, faced with the problem of a son who has made a mistake, put their face on, did not hide and accompanied him, always. What value.”

Francisco has always condemned the rejection in families of gay children and on his return from a trip to Ireland in August 2018, when journalists asked him on the plane what he would say to the parents of a homosexual son, Francisco replied: “Ignore to the son or daughter with homosexual tendencies would be a lack of maternity and paternity. You are my son or my daughter as you are“.

knee problems

In the same audience, Pope Francis explained this Wednesday that he has a swollen ligament in the knee and it is difficult for him to walk, justifying himself before the faithful since on this occasion he could not approach them to greet them.

Also Read  FBI identifies Malik Faisal Akram as Texas synagogue hijacker

The pontiff, who this Tuesday already limped conspicuously During the mass for the Unity of Christians in the basilica of San Pablo Extramuros, he assured that the doctors have told him that “it is something temporary”. “I have been told that it only happens to the old, so I don’t know why it has happened to me,” Francisco joked before the faithful.

For this reason, after greeting the prelates who came before him after the audience, the Pope limited himself to greeting those present from a distance and did not come down from the dais to walk among the faithful for almost an hour as he usually does every Wednesday.

On January 17, the 85-year-old pontiff sat down to celebrate the audience with the delegation of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land by confessing that his leg hurt. “Forgive me if I stay seated, but my leg hurts and it’s worse if I stay standing, that way (sitting) is better for me,” he told those attending the audience at the pontifical palace on the occasion of the centenary of the magazine ‘Tierra Santa’ of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land.

Francis carries time suffering from sciatica attacks, although it had been a long time since they had prevented him from carrying out his normal activity. The most recent most serious one took place just over a year ago, when in December 2020 and January 2021 he had to cancel some events, such as the Sunday mass of the Word of God, the meeting with the diplomats and the mass of New Year.

Also Read  'The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis' star was 87

Francis was operated on diverticula in the colon last July, for which he was hospitalized for 10 days, although he later appeared fully recovered and even made two international trips after the intervention: in September to Budapest and Slovakia and in December to Cyprus and Greece.


www.informacion.es

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *