Italian media has said that the pope used a highly derogatory slur against LGBTQ+ people at a bishops conference. The remark may sour attempts by the pope to make the church more welcoming.

Pope Francis allegedly used a highly offensive term to refer to LGBTQ+ people during a closed-door meeting with Italian bishops, Italian media reported on Tuesday.

The major Italian daily newspapers La Repubblica and Corriere della Sera both cited anonymous sources as saying that the pope had made the remark while reiterating his position against gay people becoming priests.

The 87-year-old pontiff was reported as saying that the Catholic seminaries were already too full of “frociaggine” — a highly derogatory term in Italian.

  • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Go read the Ian Fleming novels about James Bond. Or don’t. By page count I think about 1/3 of the books are just his bigoted rants

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      5 months ago

      Let me put it this way.

      For a long time I refused to watch ‘Gone With The Wind’ because it was a ode to the Old South.

      Finally it came on a free cable station and I had no reason not to watch it.

      It’s insanely racist, but it’s a good damn movie.

      Also, you might want to look up “The Wind Done Gone.” It’s a reimagining of the action from the point of view of Scarlette’s slave sister. One of the things she points out is that Mammy had delivered all the slave babies on the plantation and certainly could have helped if she’d wanted to.

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        5 months ago

        insanely racist, but it’s a good damn movie.

        The most succinct review of Gone With the Wind ever. Absolutely spot on.