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The Pope also denounced harming the environment, police brutality, and antisemitism without directly naming any current perpetrators.

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.

Victims groups expressed doubt that the new procedures would result in any wave of firing bishops

“I prefer that homosexuals come to confession, that they stay close to the Lord, and that we pray all together.”

VATICAN CITY — Argentine Jorge Bergoglio has been elected pope, the first ever from the Americas and the first from outside Europe in more than a millennium. He chose the name Pope Francis.