VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV intends to continue his predecessor’s openness towards the LGBTQ community, a leading Catholic exponent of reaching out to sexual minorities said Monday after meeting the US-born pontiff in the Vatican. The 30-minute private audience “was very warm and welcoming and friendly and relaxed,” American priest James Martin told AFP ahead of a pilgrimage of LGBTQ Catholics that he plans to attend later this week as part of Jubilee celebrations. “The message I got from Pope Leo was that he intends to continue Pope Francis’s approach of openness to LGBTQ people,” said the Jesuit priest, […]... Keep on reading: Pope Leo XIV receives priest defending LGBTQ Catholics