Admin l Tuesday, May 22, 2018
ROME, Italy -A victim of Chilean sex abuse who met privately with the Pope Francis has told a Spanish news source that the pope told him to accept his predicament as gay and that God made him so. Juan Carlos Cruz, a victim of Chilean abuser Fr. Fernando Karadima in an interview with Spanish newspaper El País, Cruz was asked whether Pope Francis spoke about homosexuality during their meeting at the Vatican. Cruz said the Pope did speak about homosexuality, and that he explained to the Pope that he is not a bad person and tries not to hurt anybody.
He told the newspaper: “He told me that you are gay does not matter. God made you like that and he loves you like that and I do not care. The Pope loves you as you are, you have to be happy with who you are,’” Cruz recalled.
Cruz did not say anything different from the policy of the catholic church. According to CNA, the Catechism of the Catholic Church states that people with homosexual tendencies “must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. These persons are called to fulfill God’s will in their lives and, if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord’s Cross the difficulties they may encounter from their condition.”
The Catechism also states that “deep-seated” homosexual inclination is “objectively disordered,” and that homosexual acts are “acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that ‘homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.’ They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved,” CNA said.
