US EditionPope Leo plans to keep Francis' key reforms but avoid bigger changes, he says
Pope Leo XIV emphasizes adherence to traditional family values and declines reforms for LGBTQ+ inclusion and women deacons, aiming to reduce polarization within the Church.
- Pope Leo XIV gave his first interview on Thursday, September 18, sharing plans for his papacy and views from the Vatican.
- He assumed the papacy four months ago as the first U.S.-born pope amid Church divisions and ongoing global concerns.
- Leo intends to continue Pope Francis' reforms, maintaining the Church's teaching on sexuality and marriage, women's roles, and outreach to LGBTQ+ Catholics.
- He indicated that he currently does not plan to alter the Church's stance on the matter and acknowledged the sex abuse scandal as a serious crisis that requires honoring and supporting the victims.
- Leo plans to avoid partisan politics but will raise Church concerns on immigration and humanitarian issues like Gaza, while managing Vatican finances and global diplomacy.
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Pope Leo plans to keep Francis' key reforms but avoid bigger changes, he says
Pope Leo will keep Pope Francis' signature policies to welcome gay Catholics, discuss women's ordination and give China input on bishop appointments, but is not planning big changes to Church teaching, he said in his first interview, released on Thursday.
Church doctrine on gays won't change says Leo XIV
Pope Leo XIV has said the Catholic Church's teaching that homosexual acts are a mortal sin is not set to change, stressing this was also the position of his predecessor Pope Francis, in a wide-ranging interview with Crux Senior Correspondent Elise Ann Allen. (ANSA)
Pope Leo plans to keep Pope Francis' key reforms but avoid bigger changes
VATICAN CITY: Pope Leo will keep Pope Francis' signature policies to welcome gay Catholics, discuss women's ordination and give China input on bishop appointments, but is not planning big changes to Church tea
The Pope has begun to show his letters this Thursday with a long interview published in Peru of which some excerpts were already known on Sunday. For the first time he addresses issues such as the role of women in the Church, the relationship with LGBTQ+ people or the abuses . He answers questions of the American journalist Elise Ann Allen, from the news portal «Crux Media». The dialogue occupies the last 32 pages of the biography «León XIV, cit…
In his first interview since his election, the American pope reviewed the many challenges of a Catholic Church, which was traversed by divergent currents.
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