Right behind all the celebrity swag for a Pope that he may have been showing all the while, I guess deep down. He is a fundamentalist after all. Well, on the issue of LGBT, coming from the pope himself, I rest my case.
So Pope Francis has called on the faithful to defend God's design for the family as the union of a man and a woman amid an ongoing 'ideological colonisation" seeking to subvert the Christian concept of marriage—a transparent reference to the inroads made by the movement to promote the rights of the LGBTQ community worldwide, including same-sex marriage.
The pope made the call on Thursday as he addressed members of the Equipes Notre Dame, an international lay movement which focuses on married spirituality, who were holding a meeting in
Rome. The pope emphasised the family is designed for the procreation of children, which cannot possibly be replicated in a same-sex union. He encouraged Christian couples to hold regular dialogues, noting the "need to sit down" and share thoughts amid the "current of a busy, individualistic world."
In his speech, the Pope said Christian couples and families are "in the best position" to announce Jesus to other families, and to support, strengthen and encourage them. He said the "unique joy" that God gives to Christian couples and families "must be witnessed to, announced and communicated externally, so that others, in turn, take the same path."
The pope is slated to visit the United States later this September, an event much awaited by many Americans. As proof, the 10,000 tickets for those seeking to attend the papal Mass at the Eakins Oval along Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia were all snapped up in just under 30 seconds, according to CNN
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