A key advisor to Pope Francis, Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, has called for relaxation of Catholic teaching on gay sex, insisting that the Church should not ask “impossible things” of homosexuals.
Earlier this month, Pope Francis named Cardinal Hollerich — a Jesuit like himself — to his inner cabinet of advisors despite the cardinal’s open rejection of central elements of Catholic moral teaching.
“How can you condemn people who cannot love except the same sex?” Hollerich asked during an interview with Glas Koncila, a Croatian Catholic weekly, published March 27. “For some of them it is possible to be chaste, but calling others to chastity seems like speaking Egyptian to them.”
“We can only charge people with moral conduct they can bear in their world,” the cardinal said. “If we ask impossible things of them, we will put them off.”
“If we say everything they do is intrinsically wrong, it is like saying their life has no value,” he added, apparently suggesting that gay sex is “everything they do.”
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