Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine is predicting that the Church may eventually change its opposition to same-sex marriage.

Kaine is a Catholic and a US senator from Virginia and a former governor of that state. He told the Human Rights Campaign during its national dinner Saturday in Washington that he had changed his mind about same-sex marriage and that his Church may follow suit one day.

"I think it's going to change because my Church also teaches me about a creator who, in the first chapter of Genesis, surveyed the entire world, including mankind, and said, 'It is very good,'" Kaine said. He then recalled Pope Francis's remark that "who am I to judge?" in reference to gay priests.