He Pope Francisco seems to chain one controversy after another. If this very week he was forced to apologize for saying that there is “too faggot” in some seminars, now the pontiff is once again involved in the controversy over a new and unfortunate expression, stating that Gossip and gossip are “a woman’s thing”.

A phrase that is echoed by the Italian media and that the pope would have pronounced in a closed-door meeting with young priests on Wednesday, as the website progressed this Thursday ‘Silere non possum‘. A sexist comment to which he would have also added another: “We have pants, we have to say things”.

Some words that contrast with the apparently more open vision of the pontiff regarding the role of women in the Churchalthough It is not the first time that a sexist comment has ‘escaped’as when she stated that “it is characteristic of women to be generous”, but “sometimes there is some neurotic”.

Furthermore, Francisco would have acknowledged in the same meeting that there is corruption in the diocese. “What there is in the diocese are corruption problems, I speak clearly. Corruption problems. I try with the auxiliary bishops to find solutions to this, to resolve it. Last week I received information: this is problematic, this is problematic. Yes, you should talk about this,” he would have said.

A bad week for the pope, after his request to the Italian bishops was revealed on Monday, also behind closed doors, to do not ordain homosexual people because, in their experience, they maintain a double life that makes them and those around them suffer. A conversation in which he used the Italian term ‘frociaggine’, very offensive to the LGTBI community.

The Vatican subsequently issued a statement apologizing“to those who have felt offended by the use of a term, referred to by others” and ensuring that the pope “has never intended to offend or express itself in homophobic terms“.

“As he has said on several occasions: ‘In the Church there is room for everyone, for all! Nobody is useless, nobody is superfluous, there is room for everyone. Just as we are, all of us,'” the note read.