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“[Gay people] should not be discriminated against. They should be respected, accompanied pastorally,” that was what the Pope told reporters on a plane taking him back to Rome from Armenia on Sunday.
Pope Francis was responding to a reporter who had asked for his thoughts on a Roman Catholic Cardinal who had said that the Church should apologise to gay people.
“I think that the Church not only should apologise … to a gay person whom it offended but it must also apologise to the poor as well,” Pope Francis explained to reporters. “To the women who have been exploited, to children who have been exploited by (being forced to) work. It must apologise for having blessed so many weapons.”
Reuters news agency report that Pope Francis repeated a slightly different version of his initial “Who am I to judge?” comment on gay people in 2013 by stating: “The questions is: if a person who has that condition, who has good will, and who looks for God, who are we to judge?”
He went on to explain to the gathered reporters: “There are traditions in some countries, some cultures, that have a different mentality about this question” and there are “some (gay) demonstrations that are too offensive for some.” Again, according to Reuters, he reportedly suggested that those were not grounds for discrimination against gay people.