As Pope marks first year, Italian archbishop says the ‘new paradigm’ opens Church to homosexuality
ROME , March 13, 2014 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – Citing the “new paradigm” of Pope Francis one year after his election to the throne of Peter, the archbishop of Lucca in Tuscany suggested to an interviewer this week on the Italian state television network, RAI , that the time has come for the Church to become more open to homosexuality and same-sex civil unions. “All diversity is wealth,” Archbishop Benvenuto Castellani said in reply to a question from an interviewer about Church acceptance of homosexuality. The archbishop’s frank remarks are part of a shift in public pronouncements on homosexuality from many Church leaders under Pope Francis in the wake of his famous remark, “Who am I to judge?” In that vein, earlier this week Cardinal Timothy Dolan publicly congratulated an American football star for “coming out” as an active homosexual. “Good for him,” said Cardinal Dolan . “I would have no sense of judgment on him. God bless ya.” In the ...