Upon reflection, I would add that Pope Francis is indeed a "son of the Church," in all of its confusion, secretiveness, and periodic breaking through of its real sexual distortions (both hetero- and homosexual).  In my years of clinical practice with priests and religious, I have met many who are homosexual (no "practice" needed) and have lived the life of denial and repression as the Church expects them to, and the resulting depression, addictions, and suicidal thinking that are the daily struggle for most of them.  If all of them left the Church, we would have 50% less priests and bishops and 60% less religious over the past 50 years (my estimates based on available findings).  If these statements of the pope are to be taken seriously (and I see no reason why they should not be), then we will only continue to push young Catholics out and further away from our doors, and be the home of the highly rigid and disturbed candidates that wreck havoc on the Church in often unseen ways.