When we see openly gay people receive communion, we’ll be pretty sure they have not been absolved of their sins via confession. That could have an influence on sinners of other varieties. If fewer people go to confession, will the nature of the clergy change? I sure hope the Pope knows how he is being perceived by his flock through the media narrative. Did you ever here Pope Francis tell the story about how he stole a rosary from a dead priest’s coffin? I’ve been thinking about that again recently.
The pope stole a relic in his mind. I steal from Adoration all the time and later the next week return the book, occasionally adding some.
Openly gay receive communion, so do birth controllers, adulterers, pornographers, embezelors, five finger discounters, sex outside of marriagers - and all will go to hell for offending Christ, unless He has mercy on them all the same.
But the Church will never condone that. God said so. So why do you fear? Trust in Jesus. Be not afraid. Bible, God, Angels, visions, all tell you the same thing, yet you fear?