Pope Francis urged that parents of LGBT children should encourage them rather than condemn them
He made unscripted remarks to his weekly audience about the difficulties that parents sometimes experience when raising children.
"Parents who recognize diverse sexual orientations in their children and how to handle this, how to accompany their children and not hide behind a condemning attitude," Francis added.
He has previously stated that gays have the right to be recognized as children and siblings by their families.
He has also stated that, while the Church does not endorse same-sex marriage, it does support civil union legislation that provide gay spouses shared rights in areas like as pensions, health care, and inheritance.
The Vatican's doctrinal office published a paper last year stating that Catholic priests cannot bless same-sex partnerships, which profoundly saddened LGBT Catholics.
Parishes and ministers in various countries, including as the United States and Germany, have begun to bless same-sex partnerships in place of marriage, and there have been demands for bishops to de facto institutionalize them.
Conservatives in the 1.3 billion-member Church say the pope is sending contradictory signals on homosexuality, confounding some of the faithful, by sending messages of thanks to priests and nuns who minister to gay Catholics.
Last month, a Vatican department apologized for "causing anguish to the whole LGBTQ community" by blocking a link to reference material from a Catholic homosexual rights advocacy group off its website in advance of a Vatican summit on the Church's future path in 2023.
The Catholic Church holds that LGBT people should be treated with dignity and that, while same-sex activities are immoral, same-sex inclinations are not.
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