Pope Benedict XVI

• Birth date: 1927
  

In two letters to New Ways Ministry, a group persecuted for decades for its outreach to LGBTQ Catholics, the pontiff praised its “neighborly approach.”

It took the Church 350 years to admit they got that whole Galileo thing wrong. How long will it take for them to apologize for waging war on transgender people?

Pope Francis gave money to 20 Latin American sex workers in need of shelter and medical care. Meanwhile, former-Pope Benedict connected gay marriage to the anti-Christ.

As far back as 543 C.E., we were taking the blame. So why does this lunacy continue?

Rather than blaming LGBT people, we must embrace science to save humanity from itself.

One of them turned the Vatican into a male brothel.

No, an antipsychotic drug that can “cure” transgender people isn’t being covered up by a cabal of liberal scientists.

The Pope’s shift in tone and broad statements about mercy have left a trail of comments that amount to a Rorschach test open to interpretation.

Rather than blaming LGBT people, Christians should start embracing science if they want to save humanity from itself.

He acknowledged that governing the church wasn’t his strong suit but says he doesn’t see his papacy as a failure because he persecuted gay people.

The pope blamed what he called “ideological colonizing” backed by “very influential countries”, which he did not identify.

Not only does Pope Benedict claim there was a “gay lobby” in the Vatican fighting for influence over him, but that he was able to break them up.

Even before the Davis affair, Vigano stirred controversy and was best known for his role in the first Vatileaks scandal.

EDINBURGH, Scotland — Cardinal Keith O’Brien, Britain’s most senior Roman Catholic cleric, has resigned amid allegations that he made homosexual advances to younger clergy in his diocese.

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican lashed out Saturday at the media for what it said has been a run of defamatory and false reports before the conclave to elect Pope Benedict XVI’s successor, saying they were an attempt to influence the election.

ROME — A controversial article by Italy’s respected, leading daily newspaper, La Repubblica, has linked the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI to the discovery of blackmail, corruption and a network of gay prelates in the Vatican.

The Roman Catholic Church hierarchy has long been an opponent to LGBT equality. Even before Pope Benedict came on the scene, the Vatican was employing the phrase “intrinsically disordered” to refer to LGBT people. In the 2012 election, Roman Catholic bishops led the opposition to marriage equality in Minnesota, Maryland, Washington, and Maine, pouring energy and money into campaigns that ultimately ended in defeat for the anti-gay coalitions. Is it likely that the cardinals will choose a pro-LGBT pope? Everything is possible, but this seems highly unlikely. The hierarchy tends to reward and promote those who have been particularly successful at opposing LGBT equality.

VATICAN CITY — Declaring that he lacks the strength to do his job, Pope Benedict XVI announced Monday he will resign Feb. 28 — becoming the first pontiff to step down in 600 years. His decision sets the stage for a mid-March conclave to elect a new leader for a Catholic Church in deep turmoil.

The Pope has stated that gay families pose a “crisis” in which “the key figures of human existence likewise vanish: father, mother, child – essential elements of the experience of being human are lost”. Meanwhile, I was taking my gay family on a trip to Disneyland. On the day we went, so did 40,000 other people. I thought about what the Pope could see if he had been there with us. We were as any other family in the park — we were photographed together, kissed and hugged each other when moved to do so, held hands, and laughed a lot…

AMSTERDAM — A website operator in The Netherlands is helping thousands of Dutch Catholics research information on how that can leave the church in protest of its opposition to same-sex marriage.