From The Gulf Coast-When Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires was elected pope six months ago, his record suggested he might make some modest changes. Bergoglio was known to have discouraged dissident Anglicans from converting to Rome, suggesting instead that they become better Anglicans, and had cultivated cordial relations with Argentina’s Jews and Muslims. But few thought he would make major waves.
Since then, however, Bergoglio — now Pope Francis I — has been rattling cages.
Asked about gay priests, the pope said, “If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?”
He later said that his church had become “obsessed” with sex and that he would not be talking about abortion, gay marriage and contraception.
The church should be a “home for all,” the pope said, but was in danger of becoming “a small chapel” for “a small group of selected people. We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.”
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