Washington Post
The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper in the Washington metropolitan area and widely read around the country. The newspaper has won 47 Pulitzer Prizes. It employs around 800 journalists and had a 2015 daily circulation of 356,768. Its digital circulation was 1,000,000 in 2018.
Jeff Bezos bought the paper in 2013. Tensions between he and the newsroon have continued; in 2024 and 2025, multiple personnel resigned over the paper's non-endorsement of Kamala Harris and editorial changes advanced by Bezos.
Asked about all this by a reporter, Francis wryly replied that he hadn’t found anyone with “an identity card in the Vatican with ‘gay’ on it.” He then added, in what would become one of the best-known lines of his papacy: “If someone is gay and is searching for the Lord and has good will, then who am I to judge?” Some in the gay community were disappointed with a 2021 Vatican statement that confirmed a ban on religious blessings of same-sex unions, calling such relationships not “even remotely analogous...