Honduras: Cardinal Maradiaga speaks of a “gay lobby” in the Vatican

Cardinal Oscar Maradiaga recognized the presence of a “gay lobby” in the Vatican in an interview with Honduran daily El Heraldo on January 12, 2015. He was asked whether there was “at one time or another an infiltration of the Vatican by the homosexual community,” the archbishop of Tegicigalpa, capital of Honduras, answered that it was “not only an infiltration, but Pope Francis even spoke of a lobby from this group.” Little by little, he continued, “the Pope is seeking to ‘purify’ this situation. One can understand homosexuals, and there are pastoral rulings in place to help them, but what is erroneous cannot be the truth.”

Pope Francis was questioned on the same topic in the airplane that brought him back from Rome after World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. “We must distinguish the lobby from homosexual individuals,” he stated regarding rumors about a homosexual pressure group in the Vatican, before adding, according to online magazine Slate on July 29, 2013, “Whatever the lobbies, political or masonic, they are not good.” And then he uttered the phrase reported by the media of the entire world, “If a person is gay… who am I to judge?”

According to the Honduran prelate, coordinator for the Council of Cardinals (C9) for the reform of the Roman Curia, “certain persons interpreted the words of Pope Francis as an opening of the Church towards same-sex marriage.” He rejects this “possibility”: “Natural law cannot be reformed. God designed the human body, male and female, in such a way as to complete each other and transmit life. The contrary is not in the plan of creation. There are some things that cannot be changed.”

(Sources: kipa-apic.ch – La Croix – DICI no. 329, 29/01/16)