Again, I have no doubt you will see what you want to see with those Progressive colored glasses but all you have to do is look at just a few little words in the the statement you cherry picked to understand where he's coming from on homosexuality:
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By saying this, I said what the catechism says"
A Big Heart Open to God | America Magazine
And this is what the catechism clearly says:
2357 Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained.
Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity,141 tradition has always declared that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered."142 They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity.
Under no circumstances can they be approved.
2358 The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial. They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. These persons are called to fulfill God's will in their lives and, if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord's Cross the difficulties they may encounter from their condition.
2359 Homosexual persons are called to chastity. By the virtues of self-mastery that teach them inner freedom, at times by the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection.
Catechism of the Catholic Church - The sixth commandment
There is no hope if your hope is that he will change the teaching on homosexuality because he can't change it. It is part of the Universal and Ordinary teaching of the church and therefore, infallible.
Pope Francis’ comments about gays may have signaled a change in tone within the Catholic Church,
but they did not reflect a break in church policy, a leading American Catholic cleric said Tuesday.
The church teaches to treat everyone — including gays — with dignity, even if they do not approve of the relationships they have, said Cardinal Timothy Dolan, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
“What the pope is saying is, don’t forget there’s another element to God’s teaching, namely that we treat everybody with dignity and respect, that we don’t judge their heart, that we love and respect them,” he told TODAY’s Matt Lauer.
Dolan said the pontiff’s comments didn’t surprise him, but everyone’s reaction did.
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This is no way could this be interpreted as a change in church doctrine or the church’s faith and morals. It is a change in tone," he said.
“It’s been a pretty clear teaching of the church based on the words of Jesus that we can’t judge people;
we can judge actions,” he said.
But he emphasized that those actions — specifically, sexual relationships between gay people — are still considered immoral in the eyes of the Catholic church.
“Homosexual people deserve love respect and dignity,
while homosexual acts are immoral,” Dolan said.
Cardinal Dolan on pope's gay remarks: We can judge actions, not people - TODAY.com
