Pope: Gays Deserve an Apology

Pope Francis told reporters the Catholic Church owes an apology to the LGBT community and any other groups that have been marginalized. Asked by journalists on a plane from Armenia Sunday if he agreed with an adviser who said the gay community deserves an apology, he suggested that the church should not be judging the groups it doesn’t agree with. “We must accompany them,” he said. “The church must not only apologize... to a gay person it offended, but we must apologize to the poor, to women who have been exploited, to children forced into labor, apologize for having blessed so many weapons.”