"Pope: I’m not considering resigning but would be ‘bishop emeritus of Rome’"

"The Italian newspaper 'Corriere della Sera” releases several passages from Pope Francis’ autobiographical book entitled 'Life. My Story in History,' written with Vatican journalist Fabio Marchese Ragona, set to be released on March 19 by HarperCollins.

In the passages released on Thursday, the Pope clarified that were he to resign, he would not choose to be called 'Pope Emeritus” but simply 'Bishop Emeritus of Rome.'

In that case, he would live in the Basilica of St. Mary Major 'to return to being a confessor and bring communion to the sick.”...

The Church that Pope Francis imagines is a 'mother Church, which embraces and welcomes everyone, even those who feel wrong and who have been judged by us in the past,' thinking of homosexuals or transsexuals 'who seek the Lord and have instead been rejected or expelled.'

The Pope repeated his yes to 'blessings for irregular couples,' because everyone is loved by God, 'especially sinners. And if some brother bishops decide not to follow this path, it does not mean that this is the antechamber of a schism, because the doctrine of the Church is not questioned.'

While homosexual marriage remains impossible, he said, this is not the case for civil unions, because 'it is right that these people who live the gift of love can have legal coverage like everyone else.'"

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