Pope Francis has named pro-LGBT Father Roberto Pasolini preacher of the Papal Household, generating new consternation among the Catholic faithful.
Father Pasolini, a 53-year-old Capuchin friar from Milan, is replacing Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa, a man who has held the position of preacher of the Papal Household for 44 years since his appointment by Pope John Paul II in 1980.
In that new role, Father Pasolini “will deliver Advent and Lenten sermons to the pope and members of the Roman Curia.”
Since the priest’s elevation, his critics have pointed to troubling statements captured on video, where Pasolini encourages his congregations to imagine figures from the Bible having same-sex relations, and even entertains the possibility that Jesus and his disciples might have engaged in the same behavior.
We cannot simply say there is no “form of approval” of homosexual relations in the Bible, he told a group gathered at the Capuchin Convent in the northern Italian city of Varese last February. […]
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