New Delhi: Praising the virtues of sex in a documentary released on Wednesday, Pope Francis described it as “one of the beautiful things that God has given to the human person.”
The 86-year-old pontiff made the comment in the Disney production “The Pope Answers”, which captures a meeting he had last year in Rome with 10 people in their early 20s, Reuters reported.
Francis was quizzed by them on a variety of topics, including LGBT rights, abortion, the porn industry, sex, and faith and sex abuse within the Catholic Church. “Sex is one of the beautiful things that God has given to the human person,” he said in the documentary.
“To express yourself sexually is a richness. So anything that detracts from real sexual expression lessens you and depletes this richness,” he said, referring to masturbation.
Francis was also asked whether he knew what a “non-binary person” is, and he replied affirmatively. He repeated that LGBT people must be welcomed by the Catholic Church.
“All persons are the children of God, all persons. God does not reject anybody, God is a father. And I have no right to expel anyone from the Church,” he said.
On abortion, Francis said priests should be “merciful” towards women who have terminated a pregnancy, but said the practice remains unacceptable.
“It good to call things by their name. It is one thing to accompany the person who had one (abortion), quite another to justify the act,” he said.
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