"Pope Francis answers reporter questions during a news conference aboard the papal flight on its way back from Brazil. Pope Francis reached out to gays on Monday, saying he wouldn't judge priests for their sexual orientation in a remarkably open and wide-ranging news conference as he returned from his first foreign trip. ""If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?"" Francis asked. His predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, signed a document in 2005 that said men with deep-rooted homosexual tendencies should not be priests. Francis was much more conciliatory, saying gay clergymen should be forgiven and their sins forgotten. Francis' remarks came Monday during a plane journey back to the Vatican from his first foreign trip in Brazil. (ASSOCIATED PRESS / Luca Zennaro, Pool)"
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