VATICAN CITY
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Pope Francis acknowledged the existence of a ‘gay lobby’ in the Roman Curia for the first time last week and suggested that he was considering taking action on it.

The Pontiff made the statement on a ‘gay lobby’ in the Vatican during an audience granted to CLAR (the Latin American and Caribbean Confederation of Religious Men and Women – Confederación Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Religiosos y Religiosas) on June 6, 2013, the Catholic blog Rorate Caeli reported.

Excerpts of that meeting were reported in Spanish on the Chilean Catholic website Reflexion y Liberation:

“Y, sí… es difícil. En la curia hay gente santa, de verdad, hay gente santa. Pero también hay una corriente de corrupción, también la hay, es verdad… Se habla del “lobby gay”, y es verdad, está ahí… hay que ver qué podemos hacer…”

(translation)

“Yes, it is difficult. In the curia there…