However, The New York Times reports that in 2012, Prevost was critical of entertainment media that held “sympathy for beliefs and practices that are at odds with the gospel,” including the “homosexual lifestyle” and “alternative families comprised of same-sex partners and their adopted children.”
Your basic milquetoast lib was still anti-gay marriage in 2012. That was the year Obama completed his “evolution.” Wonder if this guy has undergone a similar “evolution” on this topic in the years since. This was also pre-Francis. Not that I expect him to be extremely pro-lgbt or something, but a lot has changed since then and in many other respects he seems like a milquetoast lib.
Yeah to be clear I’m not gonna fall on my sword defending the pope lol. Also I think “progressive” means something very different in the Catholic Church vs the real world, and I don’t think this pope is even necessarily that, probably more moderate. But this pope does seem to follow Francis in a number of ways so it’ll be interesting to see where he falls on this issue. Personally, I don’t think he’ll be horrible, but this is also the Catholic Church so not horrible still isn’t that great. I just don’t think he’ll be a hardline conservative or something.
That quote above tbh wouldn’t be out of place being said by a lib during the gay marriage debates. Maybe without the religious angle, but the general sentiment was there.
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/08/pope-robert-prevost-lgbt/
Your basic milquetoast lib was still anti-gay marriage in 2012. That was the year Obama completed his “evolution.” Wonder if this guy has undergone a similar “evolution” on this topic in the years since. This was also pre-Francis. Not that I expect him to be extremely pro-lgbt or something, but a lot has changed since then and in many other respects he seems like a milquetoast lib.
That’s fair, I only had a minute of phone time this morning and that was the only thing I saw about him.
Yeah to be clear I’m not gonna fall on my sword defending the pope lol. Also I think “progressive” means something very different in the Catholic Church vs the real world, and I don’t think this pope is even necessarily that, probably more moderate. But this pope does seem to follow Francis in a number of ways so it’ll be interesting to see where he falls on this issue. Personally, I don’t think he’ll be horrible, but this is also the Catholic Church so not horrible still isn’t that great. I just don’t think he’ll be a hardline conservative or something.
That quote above tbh wouldn’t be out of place being said by a lib during the gay marriage debates. Maybe without the religious angle, but the general sentiment was there.