(LONDON DAILY MAIL) -- Berlin's Archbishop Heiner Koch said in a statement seen by the Catholic News Agency: 'The sexual preference of man expresses itself in puberty and assumes a hetero or homosexual orientation.
'Both belong to the normal forms of sexual predisposition, which cannot or should be be changed with the help of a specific socialization'.
He said the move had been made possible by Pope Francis's book on marriage and family called Amoris laetitia.
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