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Pope Francis is making headlines because of a homophobic statement made during a closed-door meeting last week with some 200 members of the Italian Bishops’ Conference. The event, first reported by the Italian gossip website Dagospia, has since been confirmed in reliable Italian outlets by several bishops who participated in the meeting. For the latest news & views from every corner of the world, Worldcrunch Today is the only truly international newsletter. Sign up here. According to these sources, the Pope said that in Italian seminaries there’s too much frociaggine — a homophobic slur derivi…