Team mafisi who profess the catholic faith will be laughing all the way to the streets after Pope Francis indirectly endorsed sex outside marriage by claiming that it was “not the most serious sin.”
During a press briefing, Pope Francis noted that sins of the flesh are not the most serious but hatred and pride.
‘Sins of the flesh are not the most serious. Pride and hatred are ‘the most serious,’ His Holiness said.
Pope Francis was responding to a question regarding the Archbishop of Paris Michel Aupetit who was forced to resign a week ago for being in a relationship with a woman.
However, the 70 year old Aupetit denied engaging in the sexual relationship. As a result, he resigned in a bid to prevent rumors which were going to damage the catholic church.
According to a diocese spokeswoman, the Archbishop never had a sexual relationship with the person who was considered very close to him.
 ‘He had an ambiguous behaviour with a person he was very close to, not a loving relationship, nor sexual..” She said.
Pope Francis added that whenever gossip spread, they usually take away the reputation of a person, maintaining that it was the sole reason why he accepted resignation from the man of God.
‘When the gossip grows, grows, grows and takes away the reputation of a person, that man will not be able to govern… and that is an injustice,’ Francis said.
‘This is why I accepted Aupetit’s resignation, not on the altar of truth, but on the altar of hypocrisy,’ the pope said on the plane back from a trip to Greece.
‘I ask myself, what did Aupetit do that was so serious he had to resign? If we don’t know the accusation, we cannot condemn,’ the pope posed.
He continued: ” That is a sin. But it is not the most serious because sins of the flesh are not the most serious,’ he said. Aupetit is a sinner. As I am, as was Peter, the bishop on whom Christ founded his Church.’
The Pope concluded by cautioning against the ‘interpretation’ of a damning report into child sexual abuse by French Catholic clergy, insisting that ‘historical situation’ must be viewed in the context.
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