He responded to a letter from an Italian gay group, the first time they have ever received a response from anyone in the Catholic hierarchy. A Dish reader translated the story. Can you imagine Benedict doing such a thing? Money quote:
Pope Francis wrote that “he appreciated very much what we had written to him, calling it a gesture of ‘spontaneous confidence’, as well as ‘the way in which we had written it.’”
The full translated story is here. Know hope.
The Dish 