Pope Francis is reported to have used extremely derogatory language in an incident that could have a profound impact on the way his attitude towards gay people is perceived.

When asked at the Italian Bishops’ Conference if gay men should now be allowed to train for the priesthood as long as they remained celibate, Pope Francis said they should not.

He is then believed to have continued by saying in Italian that there was, in the Church, already too much of an air of frociaggine, which translates as a highly offensive slur.

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    5 months ago

    Head of a theocratic microstate and an old establishment of reaction with history of covering up their crimes uses a slur? gasp How could this possibly happen?!

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    I don’t know why, but if I figure in my head him telling that word with his voice and his Argentinian accent it sounds almost funny.

    Since he is a foreigner, I assume he does not fully understand how vulgar and derogatory that term is in Italian. The result is “hilarious”, because as a native you realize he didn’t mean to use that word, like e.g. when a child uses a swear word thinking it is in the right context while it’s not.

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    5 months ago

    He is then believed to have continued by saying in Italian that there was, in the Church, already too much of an air of frociaggine (fag***, according to Gtranslate)

    Goddamn, apparently I’m missing out on the good shit at church, wtf. They better be at pride this year. 🏳️‍🌈

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    Honest question: what do we expect the Pope to say? For all intents and purposes, he is the head of a very old and established ‘religion’. He wouldn’t be the pope if his views were contrary to the teachings of the church as it currently exists.

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      5 months ago

      He didn’t have to use the Italian word for “removedness” if you find someone calling others a removed excusable then that says a lot about you.

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        The Pope said an air of fаggοtry. You don’t need to censor the word when this entire discussion is about it

        Oh wow it removes it automatically

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        their point was that the pope being a homophobe is like common knowledge and homophobes using slurs is not really news

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          It’s the Catholic Church. I think they can afford an Italian tutor or something for the Pope, my dude. Maybe the use of this word points to their stagnant (repugnant?) ideals that (apparently like the Pope’s grasp of…language?) haven’t evolved in the past 100 years.