POPE ON GAYS, WOMEN, WEAPONS...

Pope Francis has declared that the Church should ask gay people and women for forgiveness - for hundreds of years of ill treatment at its hands.

Pope Francis said: "The Church ... must also apologize to the poor as well, to the women who have been exploited, to children who have been exploited by work.

"It must apologize for having blessed so many weapons."

Church should apologize to gays & women for ill treatment – Pope Francis.