Overview

• The remarks appear in a new Spanish-language biography by Elise Ann Allen from Penguin Peru, drawing on two July interviews at Castel Gandolfo and the Vatican.
• He says LGBTQ Catholics are welcome and repeats that church teaching on sexuality and marriage will remain as it is for now, while affirming support for the traditional family.
• He pledges to keep appointing women to leadership roles but says he has no intention at present to change teaching on ordaining women as deacons or priests.
• Calling clergy abuse a real crisis, he emphasizes care for victims and due process for accused priests and cautions against making the issue the exclusive focus of church life.
• He plans to maintain the current China policy in the short term, voices strong concern over the humanitarian situation in Gaza without declaring it genocide, and says he will avoid partisan U.S. politics after discussing human dignity and migration with Vice President J.D. Vance.