ローマ法王 Francis, 86, tells young transgender worshipper 'God loves us as we are'
- Comments were 解放（する）d ahead a カトリック教徒 青年 festival in Portugal next week
- Italian Giona said they were 'torn between 約束 and their transgender 身元'
- Francis replied 説: The Lord loves us as we are, this is God's crazy love'
ローマ法王 Francis, 86, has told a young transgender worshipper that 'God loves us as we are' in his 最新の outreach gesture に向かって the LGBT community.
His comments were part of a podcast in which Francis listened and 答える／応じるd to 音声部の messages from young people ahead of a カトリック教徒 青年 festival which he will …に出席する in Portugal next week.
One of the young people was Giona, an Italian in their 早期に 20s who said they were 'torn by the dichotomy between (their カトリック教徒) 約束 and transgender 身元'.
Francis replied that 'the Lord always walks with us ... Even if we are sinners, he draws 近づく to help us. The Lord loves us as we are, this is God's crazy love.'
The カトリック教徒 Church teaches that members of the LGBT community should be 扱う／治療するd with 尊敬（する）・点, compassion and sensitivity, and their human 権利s 尊敬（する）・点d.
Francis' (pictured here) comments, 解放（する）d by Vatican マスコミ today, were in a podcast in which Francis listened and 答える／応じるd to 音声部の messages from young people ahead of a カトリック教徒 青年 festival which he will …に出席する in Portugal next week
Francis has famously said 'who am I to 裁判官' in an answer to a question 特に about homosexuals, and has 非難するd 法律s criminalising members of the LGBT community as a sin and an 不正 (pictured: Francis 迎える／歓迎するing worshippers in Vatican City in 2020)
Whether the Church can and should be more welcoming に向かって LGBT people, for example by 申し込む／申し出ing blessings for same-sex unions, is a 特に 極度の慎重さを要する topic.
Francis has famously said 'who am I to 裁判官' in an answer to a question 特に about homosexuals, and has 非難するd 法律s criminalising members of the LGBT community as a sin and an 不正.
At the same time, the 86-year-old pontiff has 再確認するd that marriage can only be understood as a life-long union between a man and a woman.?
He 支援するs 民法s giving same-sex couples 権利s in bureaucratic 事柄s such as 年金s and health care.
保守的なs have contested Francis' more welcoming and いっそう少なく judgmental 態度 に向かって the LGBT community, although he 終始一貫して 言及するs to 伝統的な カトリック教徒 teaching that says same-sex attraction is not sinful but same-sex 行為／法令／行動するs are.
An 近づいている world 首脳会議 of bishops, 予定 to 会を召集する this October and in 2024, is 推定する／予想するd to discuss the Church's 姿勢 に向かって LGBT people, women and カトリック教徒s who have 離婚d and remarried outside the Church.?
