{"id":480845,"date":"2025-09-01T10:26:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T14:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/pope-leo-meets-with-lgbtq-catholic-advocate-and-promises-to-continue-francis-welcome\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T10:26:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T14:26:43","slug":"pope-leo-meets-with-lgbtq-catholic-advocate-and-promises-to-continue-francis-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/pope-leo-meets-with-lgbtq-catholic-advocate-and-promises-to-continue-francis-welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo meets with LGBTQ+ Catholic advocate and promises to continue Francis&#8217; welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"The<a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Le%C3%B3n_XIV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Pope Leo<\/a> XIV met on Monday with one of the most prominent advocates for greater LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Catholic Church and encouraged his ministry, just days before a scheduled Holy Year pilgrimage of LGBTQ+ Catholics to the Vatican, as a sign of continued welcome in this new pontificate.\n\nThe Reverend James Martin, a Jesuit author and editor based in New York, said that Le\u00f3n told him that he intended to continue with Pope Francis&#8217; LGBTQ+ acceptance policy in the Church and encouraged him to continue with his advocacy.\n\n&#8220;I heard the same message from Pope Leo that I heard from Pope Francis, which is the desire to welcome all people, including LGBTQ people,&#8221; Martin told The Associated Press after the audience. &#8220;It was wonderful. It was very consoling and very encouraging and, frankly, very fun.&#8221;\n\nThe meeting, which lasted approximately half an hour, was officially announced by the Vatican as a sign that Leo wanted it to be made public.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/nacionales\/egehid-socializa-anillo-verde\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EGEHID socializes Green Ring San Crist\u00f3bal project with authorities and organizations of Hatillo<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThe audience was significant because it showed a strong signal of continuity with Francis, who more than any of Leo&#8217;s predecessors worked to make the Catholic Church a more welcoming place for LGBTQ+ Catholics. From his 2013 comment, &#8220;Who am I to judge?&#8221; about a supposedly gay priest, to his decision to allow priests to bless same-sex couples, Francis distinguished himself with his message of welcome.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pope Leo XIV met on Monday with one of the most prominent advocates for greater LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Catholic Church and encouraged his ministry, just days before a scheduled Holy Year pilgrimage of LGBTQ+ Catholics to the Vatican, as a sign of continued welcome in this new pontificate. The Reverend James Martin, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133537,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-215z","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Paola Castillo","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cropped-paola-castillo-f-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}