The pope used the term during a closed-door meeting with Italian bishops on May 20.
Pope Francis has apologised for using a homophobic term during a closed-door meeting with Italian bishops.
Mr Bruni said Francis was aware of the reports and recalled that the Argentine pope, who has made outreach to LGBTQ+ Catholics a hallmark of his papacy, has long insisted there was "room for everyone" in the Catholic Church. "More than the offensive slur uttered by the pope, what is damaging is the institutional church's insistence on banning gay men from the priesthood as if we all do not know many, many gifted, celibate, gay priests," noted Natalia Imperatori-Lee, chair of the religious studies department at Manhattan College.
The Vatican ban was articulated in a 2005 document from the Congregation for Catholic Education, and later repeated in a subsequent document in 2016, which said the church cannot admit to seminaries or ordain men who "practice homosexuality, present deep-seated homosexual tendencies or support the so-called gay culture.
He has been known for his outreach to LGBTQ+ Catholics, however, starting from his famous "Who am I to judge " comment in 2013 about a priest who purportedly had a gay lover in his past.
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