The Pope, in the closed-door meeting he had today with the middle-aged parish priests, he returned to the concept of “faggot”. Sources who were present at the meeting reported this to Adnkronos. Bergoglio returned to it of his own free will, using the same colorful term used in the closed-door speech with the Italian bishops, which had caused a storm and which had then led him to apologize through the Vatican. In detail, those who were present at the meeting say that the Pope returned to the topic “with great balance” saying that a young homosexual “it is not safe for him to enter the seminary”.
Bergoglio, speaking with the bishops behind closed doors, said a few weeks ago: “Look: there is already an air of fagotism around which is not good. There is a contemporary culture of homosexuality with respect to which those with a homosexual orientation are better off not being welcomed
” in the seminary because “it is very difficult for a boy who has this tendency not to fall because they come thinking that the life of a priest can support them but then they fall in the exercise of the ministry”. Even today, according to sources present, Bergoglio would have used the word “faggot” again, saying that boys with homosexual tendencies encounter difficulties which then manifest themselves in the exercise of the ministry. Bergoglio did not intend to condemn homosexuals, they explain. The Church – he reiterated – is open to all but what he intended to stigmatise, in the view of some present, would be the gay lobby which ideologises the phenomenon.
Vatican spokesperson Matteo Bruni, in summarizing the contents of the closed-door meeting with the middle-aged priests, explains that “in concluding the Pope spoke of the danger of ideologies in the Church and he returned to the topic of the admission of people with homosexual tendencies into seminariesreiterating the need to welcome them and accompany them into the Church and the prudential indication of the Dicastery for the Clergy regarding their entry into the seminary”.
