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And I have no right to expel anyone from the Church.\u201d The pope\u2019s remarks were published by L\u2019Osservatore Romano, the official Vatican newspaper, which described his conversation with the young people as an \u201copen and sincere dialogue.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Want to praise sex positivity? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\">NiteFlirt<\/a> is a beautiful thing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"878\" height=\"528\" src=\"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Screen-Shot-2023-04-12-at-11.52.48-AM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40949\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Screen-Shot-2023-04-12-at-11.52.48-AM.png 878w, https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Screen-Shot-2023-04-12-at-11.52.48-AM-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Screen-Shot-2023-04-12-at-11.52.48-AM-768x462.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 878px) 100vw, 878px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis praised the virtues of sex in a new documentary. \u201cThe Pope Answers\u201d captures a meeting he had last year in Rome with 10 people in their early 20s, in which Francis answered questions on various topics including LGBTQ+ rights, the porn industry, and sex. \u201cSex is one of the beautiful things\u00a0that God has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12900,14600,12887,3],"tags":[15907,14496,301],"class_list":["post-40948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-empowering","category-feel-good","category-insights","tag-beautiful-thing","tag-pope-francis","tag-sex"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pope Francis Says Sex Is A &#039;Beautiful Thing&#039; 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