Pope Francis isn’t liberal on LGBT issues

The Catholic Church’s teaching on sexuality shows no signs of fundamentally changing, and the media are wrong to expect it to, says Michael Coren. Reports the Pope has again used a gay slur in a closed door meeting prove it

For someone who is described by friend and foe alike as a progressive and a liberal, Pope Francis does have habit of sounding quite the opposite.

Last week he was accused of once again using a vulgar and offensive term for LGBT people. At a private meeting with local priests in Rome on Tuesday he allegedly spoke of “an atmosphere of faggotry” at the Vatican.

This comes just weeks after he used the same word - frociaggine - when speaking of Roman Catholic seminaries. There is, he said then, “too much faggotry” in them.