Pope Francis has said this week that “God loves your children as they are” while addressing about 40 parents from an Italian organisation called La Tenda di Gionata in a brief private, meeting following his weekly general audience at the Vatican.Tenda di Gionata which translates to English as Jonathan’s Tent was founded in 2018, and as an organisation aims to inform Christian LGBTQI members, their families, and pastoral workers.
Maria Grassi, vice president of the organisation said to local media following the meeting that she had ‘told the Pope of the parents’ desire for full acceptance of their children within the church.’Grassi, and her husband, Agostino Usai, had giving the Pope a booklet titled Genitori Fortunati (Fortunate Parents).
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