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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- People who act shocked that a priest would bless a gay couple but have no problem with him blessing a crooked businessman are hypocrites, Pope Francis said.

“The most serious sins are those that are disguised with a more ‘angelic’ appearance. No one is scandalized if I give a blessing to an entrepreneur who perhaps exploits people, which is a very serious sin. Whereas they are scandalized if I give it to a homosexual -- this is hypocrisy,” he told the Italian magazine Credere.

The interview was scheduled for publication Feb. 8, but Vatican News reported on some of its content the day before when the magazine issued a press release about the interview.

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[–] Enkrod@feddit.de 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Which makes him the cool pope, because after everything else he's still the pope. Calling him cool pope was never about him being okay with gay marriage and always about him being less anti-gay than for example the absolutely horrendous pope Benedict.

And him having fighting words with more anti-love bishops does frame him as "the most progressive among his group of regressives".

It's the fucking catholic church, don't expect them to be sane.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"Less of a bigot" makes him cool?

And has he changed his mind about reporting child abuse to the church rather than the police?

I mean couldn't we just call him 'marginally better Pope' or something?

[–] Enkrod@feddit.de 0 points 7 months ago

I mean I call him, the "absolutist monarchical head of that organisation of delusional pedophiles", but that's not gonna change how this extremely wealthy organisation, that's basically the worlds most thorough PR-machine, uses the media to frame him in the public eye.