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Pope Leo XIV began a four-day visit to Paris, Lourdes and Metz on September 25. France's oldest LGBT association is showing up to be seen, and its members say kind words are no longer enough.
A city resolution published on September 18 blocks events in public space from November 6 to 13 for Pope Leo XIV's trip to Argentina. That covers the date of the 35th Marcha del Orgullo, one of the largest Prides in the world. Organisers have refused to move it.
A Russian publisher printed Pope Francis's autobiography with entire passages about LGBTQ+ people redacted with solid black bars — a small but telling episode in Russia's ongoing 'propaganda' crackdown.
Returning from Africa on April 23, Pope Leo XIV told journalists that formalized same-sex blessings 'can cause more disunity than unity' and that doctrine on sexuality is not changing. LGBTQ+ Catholics are reading the pastoral hedging and the doctrinal hold-the-line at the same time.
