Pope Bluntly Faults Church’s Focus on Gays and Abortion

We have to find a new balance, Pope Francis said in the first extensive interview of his papacy, in which he sought to set a new tone for the church.

Okay I’m not even Catholic and I like this pope:

““A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality,” he told Father Spadaro. “I replied with another question: ‘Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?’ We must always consider the person.”

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“This church with which we should be thinking is the home of all, not a small chapel that can hold only a small group of selected people,” he said. “We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.” 

I agree with this tweet: