Italian media has said that the pope used a highly derogatory slur against LGBTQ+ people at a bishops conference. The remark may sour attempts by the pope to make the church more welcoming.
Pope Francis allegedly used a highly offensive term to refer to LGBTQ+ people during a closed-door meeting with Italian bishops, Italian media reported on Tuesday.
The major Italian daily newspapers La Repubblica and Corriere della Sera both cited anonymous sources as saying that the pope had made the remark while reiterating his position against gay people becoming priests.
The 87-year-old pontiff was reported as saying that the Catholic seminaries were already too full of “frociaggine” — a highly derogatory term in Italian.
Former Catholic, now atheist. I’m glad the Pope is making some progressive steps in the Catholic Church including the LGTBQ+ community.
I hope this was a misstep, and the case of a 90-year old man from a different country using language that he was not aware is a slur. I really really hope that, or else all that good will was for nothing.
Don’t hold out hope
I’m so glad the pedophile ring is invluding the lgtbq+ community. They are so nice and progressive. If i were gay, the first thing i’d wish for is that the pedos like me.
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Italian isn’t his first language, so it’s possible, but I’m not giving him the benefit of the doubt.
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the pope had made the remark while reiterating his position against gay people becoming priests.
It doesn’t matter what word he used, he was using it in an anti LGBT sentiment.
The 87-year-old pontiff was reported as saying that the Catholic seminaries were already too full of … gay men.
Here, I removed the slur. This isn’t any better. Italian fluency wasn’t the problem and didn’t change his argument.
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You’re right, it’s very likely he wasn’t intending to use a slur. But it seems to me like a lot of the reporting is “he didn’t mean to disrespect people!” when that’s not the case. The pope’s intentions were absolutely to disrespect people, just by his actions, and not by that specific word. the specific phrasing he used to do so doesn’t really matter.
That specific word in Italian has multiple meanings, one of which being something like “excessive/useless detail or addition, especially when done for the cool factor only” and another being “gayness”.
Without the full context of the sentence, it’s very hard to say what he meant or what he was saying.
Of course the word is still originating from the slur and shouldn’t be used by the pope, but it’s technically possible that wasn’t even used in relation to any minority (just as much as the opposite)
Unless I missed some extra info or source that has the full context, it’s hard to say
There’s this saying “a fish is caught through its mouth,” and this is an illustration of what it means. This pope might present this ‘cool’, ‘modern’ image to the public, but his words spoken in private amongst his peers reveals his real stance about these things.
Edit: proofreading.
So, instead of saying, “Catholic seminaries were already too full of [bundle of sticks]” instead he meant to say that “Catholic seminaries were already too full of homosexuals”. I’m not sure fixing the one word helps his message or is actually even the problem.
The term he used is being censored on here so I used a substitute.
Intentional? Or old man being old?
The dude is ancient; half his vocabulary as a child is probably a slur by this point.
This is something more people need to remember.
The level of casual racism and sexism in the past is staggering when looked at from today, but was no big deal at the time.
“Mr. Mom” a movie about the insane idea of having a man doing childcare, came out in 1983.
“Fu Manchu” with Peter Sellers doing yellowface came out in 1980.
Yeah I don’t know if you could make Three Men And A Baby today because the premise “lol men doing childcare, amirite? This is gonna be gold” just isn’t funny anymore. Millennial men are much more active and engaged fathers than previous generations.
It might be nicely subversive to make a modern reboot of Three Men And A Baby that’s just Clerks but one of them has his son in a thing on his chest. Three 30 year old men competently care for an infant without incident while sharing pithy if relatable dialog.
People always say that satire is dead, but they don’t realize that it took subversive with it.
The woke pope ain’t that woke
well, compared to the last hitler youth…
But I guarantee people will still call him “Cool Pope.”
It’s all been an act.
He is the “cool pope”… when compared the literal Nazi one before him or the sexual predator protecting one before that. They are all horrible, this one happens to be the least horrible in a long time…possibly ever. Less horrible is still horrible.
That’s like saying Kim Jong-Un is the “Cool North Korean Dictator.” It really doesn’t mean much.
Exactly.
This really isnt any different than Grandpa calling the cashier at the Piggly Wiggly a ‘colored’.
For those wondering, the word can be roughly translated in english as ::: spoiler Faggotry :::
Esit: can’t figure out how to mark something as spoiler correctly
Noun - - frociaggine - - (plural frociaggini)
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(vulgar, derogatory) f a g g o t r y
FYI I think your reply is getting automatically censored due to the slur even though you’re just trying to provide context
You mean the whole thing? Or just the word?
Just the word. Says “removedry”
Ok that’s actually quite funny, can you give me a screenshot?
Yup, here you go
Looks fine from here, must be your instance.
The spoiler is also broken for me, but that’s my client.
Thanks!
FUCK THE POPE, the old geriatric fuck.
The leader of an oppressive organized religion? Using slurs? Say it ain’t so!
I heard many bishops were offended and took it as a personal attack.
Yes, that slur lol
It’s Italian for “/f@ggotness”
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I see no problem in our current strategy of letting senile old people run the world…
