Pope Francis has reiterated his criticism of gender theory, but said Catholics who are homosexual, confused about their sexuality or convinced they were born in the wrong body deserve the same attentive pastoral care as anyone else.
Flying back to Rome on October 2 after a visit to Georgia and Azerbaijan, the Pope was asked, given his criticism earlier of "gender theory" and of what he describes as "ideological colonisation", how he would provide pastoral care to a person who felt his or her sexuality did not correspond to his or her biology.
