Italian bishop defends homosexual love and practicehttps://thecatholicherald.com/article/italian-bishop-defends-homosexual-love-and-practise 🔗The Catholic Herald - November 7, 2025
An Italian bishop has argued in an interview, ... that he finds nothing wrong with the practise of homosexuality.
Bishop Francesco Savino of Cassano all'Jonio says in the interview that people in same-sex relationships "should not be denied the opportunity to be loved and to love, even on an intimate, sexual level, because denying them this, denying them their right, I repeat, is simply wrong".
Speaking to DirittoDiCronaca.it, the 70-year-old prelate, who serves as one of three vice-presidents of the Italian Bishops' Conference, said that the Church must "restore dignity to everyone, especially to those who have been denied it".
Many of the attending LGBT pilgrims wore shirts printed with the words "nell'amore non c'è timore" – "there is no fear in love" – from the First Letter of John, and some waved rainbow-coloured fans in the crowded Jesuit church. The LGBT Mass concluded with a pilgrim carrying a rainbow cross to lead the procession from the church.
Bishop Savino told the congregation, "We are all a pilgrim people of hope and we want to leave this celebration more joyful and hopeful than ever. We have to go forward, convinced that God loves us with a unique and unrepeatable love – unconditional love.-----------------------------------
