The Pope calls “hypocrisy“criticizing the possibility of blessing gay couples, while “Nobody is shocked if I give my blessing to a businessman who perhaps exploits people“, in an interview that will be published this Thursday in the Catholic magazine ‘Credere’.

“No one is shocked if I give my blessing to a businessman who Maybe he exploits people and this is a very serious sin.. Meanwhile, she is scandalized if I give it to a homosexual. ¡This is hypocrisy“, says Francis. The pope adds that “the heart of the document is the reception”, when responding to criticism of ‘Fiducia Supplicans’, the text published by the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith in which it was explained that it was possible blessing couples considered ‘irregular’ by the Church, including those of the same sex.

The historic opening of Pope Francis to the blessing of couples of the same sex or in an “irregular” situation such as divorced and remarried, has been welcomed by many episcopal conferences in the world, but the most conservative wing describes it as “blasphemy” and other bishops, such as the African ones, continue to show their rejection.

In another of the advance extracts from the interview, the Pope highlights that “opening work in the Curia to women is important.” “In the Roman Curia now There are several women because they perform better than us men in certain roles.“says Francisco.

Also regarding his state of health, he repeats one of the phrases that he has said in recent months to reassure about his state of health and his mobility problems: “The Church is governed with the head, not with the legs“.

In the interview he also asks for a Church closer to the people: “People suffer a lot… we clerics sometimes we live comfortably… we need to see the work, the suffering of the people.”