Pope says he won't judge gay priests

[bklyncowgirl]

17. The sin in this case is if gay priests, who are sworn to celibacy have sex.

If you're a Catholic priest who has sin with anyone--the sin is your breaking your oath of celibacy. I don't believe he was talking about the lay population. I'd be really interested to hear what he has to say on that.

I also notice that he differentiated between who have sex with grown men--a sin and priests who pray on children--a crime.

I'm no longer a Catholic, and have no intention to return to the church unless they decide that using birth control is not a sin, start handing over pedophile priests and the bishops who protect them to law enforcement and concentrate their efforts on social welfare and the environment and not on returning us to some patriarchal past but I applaud this Pope's steps, however small, to, hopefully, take the church in a less judgmental direction.