- ID
- 3786514
- Banca
- COPESE - UFT
- Órgão
- UFT
- Ano
- 2013
- Provas
- Disciplina
- Inglês
- Assuntos
Read the text below to answer question.
Pope Francis: Who am I to judge gay people?
By David Willey BBC News, Rome
Pope Francis, the first ever pontiff from Latin America,
has struck an unusual new tone. Now he is back at his desk in
his modest Vatican quarters, he has some important decisions
to make about the future governance of his Church. Normally
the cardinals who run the Holy See are off on their long summer
holidays at this time of year. But Pope Francis' seasons are not
the same as those of his predecessors. In the Southern
Hemisphere, where the bulk of his international flock now lives,
it is winter.
Pope Francis plans to spend the month of August
preparing for some radical changes in the future governance of
his worldwide Church. Be prepared for some big surprises. His
remarks on gay people are being seen as much less
judgemental than his predecessor's position on the issue. Pope Benedict XVI signed a document in 2005 that said men with
deep-rooted homosexual tendencies should not be priests. But
Pope Francis said gay clergymen should be forgiven and their
sins forgotten.
"The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains this
very well," Pope Francis said in a wide-ranging 80-minute long
interview with Vatican journalists."It says they should not be
marginalised because of this but that they must be integrated
into society."But he condemned what he described as lobbying
by gay people. "The problem is not having this orientation," he
said. "We must be brothers. The problem is lobbying by this
orientation, or lobbies of greedy people, political lobbies,
Masonic lobbies, so many lobbies. This is the worse problem."
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23489702. Adapted.
According to the text, judge the following statements as
true (T) or false (F).
I. Pope Francis will bring big surprises in August.
II. Pope Benedict XVI was against homosexual priests.
III. The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains the
difference from being homosexual and in lobbying
homosexuality.
IV. Pope Francis disapproves any kind of lobbies.
V. Pope Francis is indifferent about gay people.
Choose the CORRECT alternative.