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The number two of the Holy See, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, received for the first time yesterday at the Vatican representatives of organizations of the bad, gay, transbadual and bibadual people, who denounced the "criminalization" suffered in the whole world.

"Cardinal Pietro Parolin today received a group of 50 people in the Vatican who are involved in various ways against the criminalization of homobaduality," said Vatican spokesman Alessandro Gisotti. "A dialogue has been initiated with the Vatican on this subject and Parolin has badured us that it will continue," said British MP Helena Ann Kennedy.

For his part, Cardinal Parolin, secretary of state, confirmed the position of the Catholic Church "in defense of the dignity of all human beings and against all forms of violence," said Gisotti. Participants delivered a study of the Inter-American Human Rights, to be published next year, denouncing "serious human rights violations" in at least ten Caribbean countries, including Belize and Jamaica, said the Argentine lawyer Leonardo Raznovich, representative of the institute, who lives in this region. "This was not a formal meeting, this audience is generated by an interest of Pope Francis after he was invited in. I wanted to know more about our work and the problem of criminalization," he said. he explained. "This is the beginning of a very positive dialogue and it is likely that the church will issue an important statement," he said.

In his exhortation to young people, the pope recalled that the Church condemned "all discrimination and violence because of badual orientation". However, his statements in which he advises that homobadual children are taken to the psychologist, have been strongly criticized. "This is unacceptable." Understanding therapy is an aberration. "We are not asking to change the doctrine of the Church, but to put a line (…) because we believe that it is unfair to criminalize the badual intimacy of people, it is an affront to human dignity, "explained Raznovich.