The Vatican has raised concerns for the health of Pope Francis by saying he remains in critical condition, with blood tests showing early kidney failure.
A contender to be the first Asian pope, the Filipino is a relatively youthful 67 and could follow in Francis’s lead of being more accepting of the LGBT community.
In New York, Cardinal Timothy Dolan admitted what church leaders in Rome weren't saying publicly: that the Catholic faithful were united "at the bedside of a dying father”.
According to the Independent, he said in 2015: “The harsh words that were used in the past to refer to gays and divorced and separated people, the unwed mothers etc, in the past, they were quite severe.
“Everyone can contribute to peace, but solutions must never be pursued through unilateral impositions that risk trampling on the rights of entire peoples, otherwise, there will never be a just and lasting peace,” he has said.
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