Pope Francis tells gay man: ‘God made you like this’.

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Juan Carlos Cruz, who was sexually abused, says pontiff told him God did not mind that he was gay.

A survivor of clerical sexual abuse has said Pope Francis told him that God had made him gay and loved him, in arguably the most strikingly accepting comments about homosexuality to be uttered by the leader of the Roman Catholic church.