[Alex Murphy]

"If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?" Francis asked.

His predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, signed a document in 2005 that said men with deep-rooted homosexual tendencies should not be priests. Francis was much more conciliatory, saying gay clergymen should be forgiven and their sins forgotten.

Francis' remarks came Monday during a plane journey back to the Vatican from his first foreign trip in Brazil.

I'm not going to assume anything.

[Elsie]

Francis' remarks came Monday during a plane journey back to the Vatican from his first foreign trip in Brazil.

Any NON-Catholics flying with him?