Pope Francis has asked parents to do not condemn your children with “different sexual orientations” and be able to “accompany” them. This was stated during an audience held this Wednesday at the Vatican, where Francis reflected on “parents facing their children’s problems.”
“Children with so many illnesses, sick children, also with permanent illnesses. How much pain there! Parents who see different sexual orientations in their children and how to manage this and accompany the children and not hide in a condemnatory attitude; parents who see their children leave because of the disease”, added the pontiff.
Francis has thus rejected the attitude that condemns the behavior of children and has asked parents for “softness”. “Never condemn a son“, he urged. In addition, he recalled how he saw the queues in front of the prisons in Buenos Aires and “there were the mothers, those mothers who, faced with the problem of a son who has made a mistake, put their face on, did not hide and They accompanied him, always.”
It is not the first time that the pope has condemned the rejection of LGBTI children by families. Already in 2018, when asked by journalists on his return from a trip to Ireland what he would say to the parents of a homosexual son, Francis replied: “Ignoring the son or daughter with homosexual tendencies would be a lack of maternity and paternity. You are my son or my daughter as you are.”
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