Pope Francis has asserted that sexual intercourse outward marriage is "not the most severe sin." The 84-year-old pope explained this during a question and answer stretch with journalists on a getaway back to Italy from Greece on Monday.
He let out that; “Sins of the flesh are not the most serious.” The pontiff expanded that pride and hatred are "the most serious".
Pope Francis formulated the statement in reply to an issue about the Archbishop of Paris Michel Aupetit's "ambiguous" affair with a woman.
Aupetit, 70, refuted the relationship was sexual, but he resigned to safeguard the prestige of the Church.
The Pope was also inquired about the resignation of the Archbishop of Paris, Michel Aupetit, who requested to step down earlier this month after a French magazine asserted he had engaged in a private affair with a woman.
Traditionally, Archbishops and higher members of the Catholic Church observe clerical celibacy, which means they forgo sex. The Archbishop rejected the affair, and said: “I poorly dealt with the situation with a person who was in contact several periods with me.”
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The Pope, who ratified the Archbishop’s capitulation, said: “it was a lagging on his part, a ceasing to function against the sixth commandment, but not a total one.”
The sixth commandment tells “you shall not perpetrate adultery”, which pertains to people having sex outside of their marriages but the Pope inferred it could apply to priests who don’t stay celibate.
During the flight, the Pope announced he removed the Archbishop due to “gossip”.
“We’re all felons. When the rumor grows and grows and eliminates someone’s good name, he cannot govern,” he said.
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