By Chris Hoenig
Cardinal Timothy Dolan is backing Pope Francis’s comments about gay priests as a “change in tone or emphasis” toward the LGBT community.
In a nearly 90-minute news conference on his flight back from Brazil, the Pope spoke openly and directly about a subject the Catholic Church has long considered taboo and commonly ignored altogether. “If they accept the Lord and have good will, who am I to judge them They shouldn’t be marginalized,” Pope Francis told reporters in Italian. “The tendency is not the problem. They’re our brothers.”
