The Vatican policy towards homosexuals has become more conciliatory since Pope Francis was ordained. In 2013, he said: "If a person is gay and seeks God and has goodwill, who am I to judge?"
"The problem is not having this orientation. We must be brothers. The problem is lobbying by this orientation, or lobbies of greedy people, political lobbies, Masonic lobbies, so many lobbies. This is the worst problem," he added.