The transsexuals and homosexuals to be accepted and embraced by the Catholic Church, Pope Francis said. He also said that, he was staunchly opposed to schools promoting or endorsing such “tendencies”.

The Vatican maintains that homosexual acts are sinful, but homosexual orientation is not. The Latin American pontiff said that, "It is one thing to have homosexual tendencies or a sex change."  "But it is another thing to teach it in schools."

The Pope said that, "Life is life, and things should be taken as they come." "Sin is sin, but tendencies or hormonal imbalances can cause many problems and we have to be careful.”

"But each case must be welcomed, accompanied, studied, discerned and integrated. When a person (who is gay) arrives before Jesus, Jesus certainly will not say, 'Go away because you are homosexual,'" Francis said.

"Please don't write that the Pope will bless transsexuals. I can see the front pages of newspapers now,” he joked.

"What I was talking about was the nastiness that is present today in indoctrinating people in gender theory," he said. "It is one thing for a person to have this tendency, this option, and even change sex," he said.

"But it is another thing to teach it, gender theory, in schools along these lines in order to change mentality. I call this ideological colonization."

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