Pope Francis would have said that there is an atmosphere of queerness in the Vatican

On Tuesday, June 11, Pope Francis went to the Salesian Pontifical University to speak for more than an hour with some 200 priests, with whom he once again discussed the issue of the admission of homosexuals into the seminary.

Although these meetings are held behind closed doors, the Holy See Press Office usually reports on the main topics discussed, although without offering complete textual statements from Pope Francis, as is the case with most of his audiences.

According to him official statement released On Tuesday afternoon, Pope Francis referred to the “danger of ideologies in the Church” and returned “to the issue of admitting people with homosexual tendencies to seminaries, highlighting the need to welcome and accompany them in the Church.”

Likewise, the Vatican reported that the Pontiff encouraged people with homosexual tendencies to receive “the prudential indication of the Dicastery for the Clergy regarding their entry into the seminary,” without specifying what these indications would be.

“There is an atmosphere of queerness in the Vatican”

However, several media outlets have published this Tuesday, June 12, a version of the meeting with verbatim quotes that are not included in the official Vatican statement.

After the controversy that arose during his meeting on May 20 with the Italian bishops, to whom he pointed out that “there is too much faggot in certain seminaries”, the Holy Father would have used this term again on the afternoon of June 11.

Although have apologized a few days later and affirming that he never intended to “offend or express himself in homophobic terms”, on this occasion Pope Francis would have affirmed that “in the Vatican there is an atmosphere of queerness.”

According to the agency ANSA and Italian newspapers like The messenger o Daily factthe Pontiff also reiterated that homosexual candidates are “good guys,” although he stressed that they should not be admitted to the seminary.

The Vatican has not yet offered any explanation in this regard or issued an official statement about what happened.

These alleged statements by the Holy Father would be far from his letter sent to early june to a young man excluded from the seminary for being homosexual, whom he encouraged to “move forward” with his vocation.