When asked at the Italian Bishops’ Conference if gay men should now be allowed to train for the priesthood as long as they remained celibate, Pope Francis said they should not.
He is then believed to have continued by saying in Italian that there was, in the Church, already too much of an air of frociaggine, which translates as a highly offensive slur
Although it was a meeting that happened behind closed doors, the Pope’s reported comments were first conveyed to the Italian investigative website, Dagospia.
Other Italian news agencies have since confirmed the Pope’s words citing numerous sources.
Big shift from >> He recently created consternation among Catholic traditionalists by saying priests should be able to bless same-sex couples in some circumstances and has frequently talked of gay people being welcome in the Church.
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Big shift from >> He recently created consternation among Catholic traditionalists by saying priests should be able to bless same-sex couples in some circumstances and has frequently talked of gay people being welcome in the Church.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67751600
some news agencies report that he used derogatory language on more than one occasion
Italian is not the Pope’s first language and he has been known to make mistakes in the past.