Every living being on the planet earth are (Humans) of which some dynamic as we are, having the faculty to choose to degenerate to the lowest stage, or to climb on the ladder of evolution depending on our choices.
Where I do not meet the Pope, is his tolerance to accept that some men can engage in debauchery that the writings condemn and call them abomination.
The Apostle Paul is clear in his statement: One must not imitate fashion, but correct it.
Closer to home, Roger Bacon, a great thinker of the twelfth century, calls it deplorable; any attitude that tends to accept the excesses of the present century on the pretext that it is the custom or it is the current opinion, when the same reason, he says, serves only to hide the ignorance of tat person who wants to give the appearance of a wisdom that is not possessed.
After. “The History of Christianity in the middle Ages.” Page 268
The Pope does not come with anything new, except that he feels responsible for keeping the jewels in his closed circle for too long, fortunately that other Good Shepherds in other traditions have distributed them to the marked sheep at all time and everywhere.
The Vatican is several centuries late by that, causing a certain delay to many souls who followed the path of Jesus Christ in their quest for enlightenment.
The Bible is the book par excellence; through his stories, his fables, his legends and his myths, can help us find THE TRUTH as we become that little child that Christ asks us to be (Open minded and without Ego).
We are the greatest miracle in the world, God will do no other miracle.
Listen to: OG Mandino’s Memorandum of God. Narration on YouTube (see link below) page 3