Pope Francis says gay people — and all the other people the church has marginalized, such as the poor and the exploited — deserve an apology.

Francis was asked Sunday en route home from Armenia if he agreed with one of his top advisers, German Cardinal Karl Marx, who told a conference in Dublin in the days after the deadly Orlando gay club attack that the church owes an apology to gay people for having marginalized them.

Who am I to judge?

Francis responded with a variation of his famous “Who am I to judge?” comment and a repetition of church teaching that gay people must not be discriminated against but treated with respect.

Image: Pope Attends His Weekly Audience In St. Peter’s Square. TIME Magazine.