{"id":27074,"date":"2013-07-29T19:03:06","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T15:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=27074"},"modified":"2013-07-29T19:03:06","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T15:03:06","slug":"pope-francis-says-he-wont-judge-gay-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=27074","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis Says He Won&#8217;t Judge Gay People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/AP_pope_francis_dm_130729_16x9_992-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-27072\" alt=\"AP_pope_francis_dm_130729_16x9_992 (1)\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/AP_pope_francis_dm_130729_16x9_992-1.jpg\" width=\"992\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/AP_pope_francis_dm_130729_16x9_992-1.jpg 992w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/AP_pope_francis_dm_130729_16x9_992-1-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/AP_pope_francis_dm_130729_16x9_992-1-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 992px) 100vw, 992px\" \/><\/a>Pope Francis told reporters today that he would not judge or marginalize gay people within the Roman Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?&#8221; Francis asked reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Francis&#8217; calls for treating gay people with dignity is a clear departure from the style and approach of his two most recent predecessors.<\/p>\n<p>Francis&#8217; remarks came in a wide-ranging interview aboard a flight back from Brazil in his first foreign trip as pontiff.<\/p>\n<p>Francis, 76, also said in the interview that having Benedict at the Vatican is like having a wise grandfather at home, to whom he turns for advice.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis told reporters today that he would not judge or marginalize gay people within&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":27072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}