Pope Francis (second from left); Rt. Rev. Iain Greenshields, moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland (second from right); and Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury (far right), meet with journalists during an airborne news conference aboard the pontiff’s plane en route to Rome at the end of his pastoral visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan on Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023. AP PHOTO
Pope Francis (second from left); Rt. Rev. Iain Greenshields, moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland (second from right); and Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury (far right), meet with journalists during an airborne news conference aboard the pontiff’s plane en route to Rome at the end of his pastoral visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan on Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023. AP PHOTO
Pope Francis (second from left); Rt. Rev. Iain Greenshields, moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland (second from right); and Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury (far right), meet with journalists during an airborne news conference aboard the pontiff's plane en route to Rome at the end of his pastoral visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan on Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023. AP PHOTO

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE: Pope Francis, the head of the Anglican Communion and the top Presbyterian minister denounced together the criminalization of homosexuality on Sunday and said gay people should be welcomed by their churches.

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