Homosexuality not a crime – Pope Francis

Pope Francis criticised laws that criminalize homosexuality as “unjust,” saying God loves all his children just as they are and called on Catholic bishops who support the laws to welcome LGBTQ people into the church. “Being homosexual isn’t a crime,” Francis said during an interview Tuesday with The Associated Press. Francis acknowledged that Catholic bishops […]

The first Catholic bishop to take the knee at a Black Lives Matter rally got a call from Pope Francis

Pope Francis reached out this week to El Paso, Texas, Bishop Mark J. Seitz, the first Catholic bishop to publicly take the knee in symbolic recognition of racial injustice and police brutality in America. On Monday, Bishop Seitz attended a rally with parishioners and other clergy in Memorial Park in El Paso’s Manhattan Heights neighborhood. […]