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12 years ago NCR was on the plane with Francis when he asked, ‘Who am I to judge?’

The start of the Catholic Church’s “Sexual Devolution” could be dated quite precisely, to July 29, 2013. That’s when Pope Francis, speaking to reporters on the papal plane back to the Vatican from Brazil, was asked about a “gay lobby” of homosexual priests in the Vatican. As NCR’s then-Vatican correspondent John L. Allen Jr. wrote at the time, Francis dismissed that idea and said of gay people, “If someone is gay and is searching for the Lord an…
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BishopAccountability.org - Documenting the Catholic Sexual Abuse and Financial Crisis - Data on bish broke the news in on Tuesday, September 9, 2025.
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