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July 29, 2013 – Pope Francis disembarks from the plane after landing from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at Ciampino’s military airport, on the outskirts of Rome. (AP)

ABOARD THE PAPAL AIRCRAFT  (AP) –  Pope Francis reached out to gays on Monday, saying he wouldn’t judge priests for their sexual orientation in a remarkably open and wide-ranging news conference as he returned from his first foreign trip.

“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.