Is the Catholic Church embracing homosexuality?

Published: May 31, 2018, 9:40 a.m.

\u2018Juan Carlos, that you are gay does not matter. God made you like this and loves you like this and I don\u2019t care. The pope loves you like this. You have to be happy with who you are.'

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These are the words allegedly spoken by Pope Francis to a Chilean man. He appears to have pressed the 'delete' button on the Church's teaching that homosexuality is 'intrinsically disordered'. In this Holy Smoke, Damian Thompson talks to Father Alexander Lucie-Smith, in a frank and sensitive discussion on homosexuality and the Church.