Pope Francis says the church should apologize to gays for helping to marginalize them | America Magazine

Pope Francis continues to try to change the attitudes the Church projects.  It is impossible to imagine that he would, like San Francisco Cardinal Cordileone demand that people in the employ of Church schools commit to the proposition that homosexuality is "intrinsically evil".
But the anti-discrimination clause in the Catechism is preceded by that statement that homosexuality is "intrinsically disordered".  The Catechism needs to change too. - gwc
Pope Francis says the church should apologize to gays for helping to marginalize them | America Magazine
Asked whether the church should say sorry to gays for the way it has marginalized them, as Cardinal Reinhard Marx said recently in Dublin, Francis responded in this way: “I say what I said on my first trip (from Rio), I say what the Catechism says: they must not be discriminated, they must be respected and accompanied pastorally.”

“I believe that the church should not only say sorry, as Cardinal Marx says, it should not only say sorry to the person who is gay that it has offended, but also it should say sorry to the poor and to women who are exploited, and the children who are exploited for work.”

He went on to explain that “When I say church I mean Christians. The church is holy but we are sinners. Christians must say sorry for not having accompanied them, for not having accompanied many choices, many families.” Indeed, “Christians must say sorry and not only for this. They must ask forgiveness, not just say sorry” and also ask God’s pardon. “It is a word that we forget a lot today,” he said.