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Q: Call another activity from button on camera Android I'm implementing a Camera app on Android, I'd like to have a button on it which will lead the user to the developer website, or my website.
This button is placed right of the shutter button.
I was trying to call the webview activity from this button, but it's giving me errors and I'm confused on this case, because there are plenty of examples of calling an activity inside another one, but no from a camera app.
I don't know what am I doing wrong.
Here's the piece of code in MainActivity:
public class MainActivity extends Activity /**implements OnClickListener**/ {

ImageView image;
Activity context;
Preview preview;
Camera camera;
Button exitButton;
ImageView fotoButton;
Button webButton;
LinearLayout progressLayout;
String path = "/sdcard/KutCamera/cache/images/";

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    context=this;

    webButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.imageView_world);
    fotoButton = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.imageView_foto);
    exitButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button_exit);
    image = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.imageView_photo);
    progressLayout = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.progress_layout);

    preview = new Preview(this,
            (SurfaceView) findViewById(R.id.KutCameraFragment));
    FrameLayout frame = (FrameLayout) findViewById(R.id.preview);
    frame.addView(preview);
    preview.setKeepScreenOn(true);
    fotoButton.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            try {
                takeFocusedPicture();
            } catch (Exception e) {

            }
            exitButton.setClickable(false);
            fotoButton.setClickable(false);
            webButton.setClickable(true);
            progressLayout.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
        }
    });
    webButton.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            Intent myIntent = new Intent(MainActivity.this, WebActivity.class);
            MainActivity.this.startActivity(myIntent);

        }
    });
}

Everytime I run it it throws me this error:
4-04 00:33:43.929    4237-4237/com.kut.kutcamera E/AndroidRuntime﹕ FATAL EXCEPTION: main
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.kut.kutcamera/com.kut.kutcamera.MainActivity}: java.lang.ClassCastException: android.widget.ImageView cannot be cast to android.widget.Button
        at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2245)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2295)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.access$700(ActivityThread.java:150)
        at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1280)
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:175)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5279)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1102)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:869)
        at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
 Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: android.widget.ImageView cannot be cast to android.widget.Button
        at com.kut.kutcamera.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.java:56)
        at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:5283)
        at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1097)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2209)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2295)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.access$700(ActivityThread.java:150)
        at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1280)
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:175)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5279)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1102)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:869)
        at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

The layout declaration of the world button is just Okay, I don't really think it's because of that, I guess there is something inside that camera method that doesn't allows me to properly make the call.
Can anybody shed some light on this?
Thanks in advance!
EDIT
activiy_main.xml:
<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
tools:context=".MainActivity" >
 <FrameLayout
    android:id="@+id/preview"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:layout_weight="1" >
<SurfaceView
    android:id="@+id/KutCameraFragment"
    android:name="com.kut.camera.KutCameraFragment"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent" />

<RelativeLayout
    android:id="@+id/rel_layout"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent" >

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:alpha="1"
        android:background="@android:color/black"
        android:orientation="vertical"
        android:padding="10dp" >

        <RelativeLayout
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent" >

            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/textViewReferan"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
                android:layout_centerVertical="true"
                android:text="Photo"
                android:textColor="@android:color/white"
                android:textSize="16sp" />

            <Button
                android:id="@+id/button_exit"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
                android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
                android:background="@android:color/transparent"
                android:text="Ok"
                android:textColor="#2799CF" />

        </RelativeLayout>

        <LinearLayout
            android:id="@+id/progress_layout"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:layout_gravity="center"
            android:gravity="center"
            android:orientation="vertical"
            android:visibility="gone" >

    <ProgressBar
        android:id="@+id/progressBar1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/islem_value_textView"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Loading..." />

</LinearLayout>
    </LinearLayout>

    <RelativeLayout
        android:id="@+id/RelativeLayout1"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:alpha="0.9"
        android:background="@android:color/black"
        android:padding="10dp" >

        <ImageView
            android:id="@+id/imageView_foto"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
            android:layout_centerVertical="true"
            android:src="@drawable/camera"
            android:contentDescription="1" />

        <ImageView
            android:id="@+id/imageView_photo"
            android:layout_width="80dp"
            android:layout_height="100dp"
            android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
            android:layout_centerVertical="true"
            android:layout_marginRight="5dp"
            android:padding="5dp"
            android:scaleType="fitCenter"
            android:src="@drawable/fotocekicon"
            android:contentDescription="2" />

        <ImageView
            android:id="@+id/imageView_world"
            android:layout_width="80dp"
            android:layout_height="100dp"
            android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
            android:layout_centerVertical="true"
            android:layout_marginLeft="5dp"
            android:padding="5dp"
            android:scaleType="fitCenter"
            android:src="@drawable/world"
            android:contentDescription="2" />

    </RelativeLayout>

    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/imageView1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:src="@drawable/mark3"
        android:layout_centerVertical="true"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentStart="true" />
</RelativeLayout>
</FrameLayout>

</FrameLayout>

A: Hi I have update your activity class, just replace with my code let me know you still face the problem.
public class MainActivity extends Activity /**implements OnClickListener**/ {

ImageView image;
Activity context;
Preview preview;
Camera camera;
Button exitButton;
ImageView fotoButton;
ImageView webButton;
LinearLayout progressLayout;
String path = "/sdcard/KutCamera/cache/images/";

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    context=this;

    webButton = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.imageView_world);
    fotoButton = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.imageView_foto);
    exitButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button_exit);
    image = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.imageView_photo);
    progressLayout = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.progress_layout);

    preview = new Preview(this,
            (SurfaceView) findViewById(R.id.KutCameraFragment));
    FrameLayout frame = (FrameLayout) findViewById(R.id.preview);
    frame.addView(preview);
    preview.setKeepScreenOn(true);
    fotoButton.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            try {
                takeFocusedPicture();
            } catch (Exception e) {

            }
            exitButton.setClickable(false);
            fotoButton.setClickable(false);
            webButton.setClickable(true);
            progressLayout.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
        }
    });
    webButton.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            Intent myIntent = new Intent(MainActivity.this, WebActivity.class);
            MainActivity.this.startActivity(myIntent);

        }
    });
}

Thank you


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Q: Xamarin UWP icon assets for the application I am developing the Xamarin UWP project for an existing Xamarin forms project of mine. My existing project has support to Android and iOS only. Now, i am trying to extend the support to UWP as well.
In Xamarin UWP project what should be the icon sizes that needs to be used in UWP project so that it is compatible in all the devices(mobile, tablet and desktop).?
In Android we have the option of providing the sizes as per the drawable folders and in iOS we can mention the icon with their sizes like 1x, 2x and 3x. Likewise What is the method to add the icon assets used in the Xamarin UWP project.?
I have checked the below link and also tried to generate the icons used in the Visual assets tab in the package manifest file in UWP project but it has not worked. Relevant documentation here.
Anyone please provide me the way to generate or standard sizes of icons used in the Xamarin UWP project?

A: UWP has very similar way of specifying image scales. The filename pattern is as follows:
ImageName.scale-XXX.png

Where XXX is the scaling factor of the image. The recommended scales you should provide are 100, 200 and 400, but you can also provide 150 and 125 optionally.
The size of the image should be scaled proportionally, so when your default image is 25 pixels wide at scale 100, it should be 100 pixels wide at 400.
For app icons and assets, this should be done for you easily using Visual Studio. For example, set the medium tile to Assets\Square150x150Logo.png and now in the Assets folder add images like:

*

*Assets\Square150x150Logo.scale-150.png

*Assets\Square150x150Logo.scale-200.png

*Assets\Square150x150Logo.scale-400.png

Notice that you don't have any image with the exact file name (Assets\Square150x150Logo.scale-150.png), only the "scale" variants. The OS will use the appropriate one as it sees fit.
To see what sizes you need, check the guidelines in Visual Studio:

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Right at home: RF2's Rebecca Severns finds a calling early in life for home decor, furniture
by megan gloss photos by nicki kohl
RF2 Furniture Warehouse in Dubuque on Thursday, April 16, 2020. PHOTO CREDIT: NICKI KOHL
Rebecca Severns, of RF2 Furniture Warehouse in Dubuque. Photo taken on Thursday, April 16, 2020, for Her Magazine's home and garden issue. PHOTO CREDIT: NICKI KOHL
Eddie Severns and Rebecca Severns, of RF2 Furniture Warehouse in Dubuque. Photo taken on Thursday, April 16, 2020, for Her Magazine's home and garden issue. PHOTO CREDIT: NICKI KOHL
For most, furniture simply is a place to sit, slumber or gather around for a bite to eat.
But for Rebecca Severns, one might say that a flair for such stationary items is in her blood.
"My parents had a store when I was growing up called Roy's Furniture," Rebecca said. "It was named after my dad. They had a little bit of this and little bit of that for the home."
Rebecca's mother arrived in Chicago from her native Germany and met and married Rebecca's father, who was a bus driver at the time. After residing in the Windy City for a year, the couple sought to do something creative to make a little more money.
"So they decided to open a furniture store," Rebecca said.
More than 60 years later, even though her parents' business has since been rebuilt after being ravaged by a fire in 2000, Roy's Furniture continues to proudly stand at the same spot in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood, a location known as a hip hub for nightlife, dining and live entertainment.
"At the time, it wasn't like it is today," Rebecca said, with a laugh.
The store also has served as a backdrop of inspiration for Rebecca, now 58. After years of tending to her family's business along with husband Eddie and even running a satellite location in Galena, Ill., for a decade with her sister, Rebecca decided it was time to branch out.
The result is RF2 Furniture Warehouse, which opened in Dubuque's Historic Millwork District in 2014 and relocated to its new home on Railroad Avenue at the beginning of this year.
"It's a great place for us," Rebecca said. "We have a loading dock, which is very important for what we need to do. We're also next to Spahn & Rose Lumber Co. and Mountaintop Stoneworks. For people working on or needing something for their home, we're all right there. It's very convenient."
RF2 features a variety of both essential items and finishing touches for the home, from couches and sectionals to chairs, tables, desks, buffets and an assortment of decorative items. With splashes of color and tastes appealing to all types, customers can find something modern and quirky or traditional and timeless.
"I like to be able to offer something for everyone," said Rebecca, who provides the decorative eye for the showroom's vast and eclectic space. "I like to carry pieces that will have an appeal to a lot of people. But I also like to have that one piece that maybe just one person is looking for and will love."
Budding creativity
Prior to joining the family business as she grew older, Rebecca described a passion for creativity that took hold at a young age.
"I always liked to be creative, playing with colors and paints — that always was my thing," she said.
And though she didn't pursue formal training in interior decorating, she did dabble in art and design classes. But something about furniture always was of a special interest.
"I'd go to market for the family business and get so many great ideas and see so many different pieces and different colors," Rebecca said. "Furniture became something of a passion. I always loved it."
It's what Eddie credited with lending Rebecca her natural talent.
"She doesn't come from any formal training," he said. "From the time she was 8, she just dove into the family business. It's great to have that natural ability and talent for it."
Where Rebecca comes in with her keen eye for style, Eddie offers another perspective.
The couple knew one another in high school and have been married for 31 years — together for 10 years longer than that.
Prior to Eddie and Rebecca teaming up in business as well, he served as a building commissioner under Richard Daley, Chicago's mayor from 1989 to 2011, first working in the city's zoning and planning and development departments before taking on a greater role as a part of Daley's campaign team.
After working for the city for 13 years, Eddie joined the engineering firm responsible for facilitating work on two of Chicago O'Hare International Airport's newest runways.
"We had two totally different lifestyles in Chicago," he said. "They say absence makes the heart grow fonder, so we had our concerns about working together and spending all that time around each other. But it has worked out great. Life has been good."
In the furniture business, Eddie described his work as "diving under tables" to assess the quality of furniture pieces.
"Rebecca is always looking for that unique style; I'm always looking for the quality to make sure we're able to offer what we do at a good price point," he said. "We're always trying to make sure that the experience we each bring to the business dovetails."
Because Rebecca and her sister ran Roy's Furniture in Galena, when it came to breaking away from the family business she was born into, Rebecca said Dubuque quickly emerged as a natural fit for RF2.
"We had taken many trips to Dubuque and were familiar with Dubuque," she said. "Eddie had wanted get me to move out of Chicago. He prefers someplace like Dubuque, with it's wide open spaces, to a bigger city. But I wasn't ready. There was the family business, and I grew up in the city. But eventually, we decided that it was time for a change. Dubuque made sense for us. It was a big risk, but we took a chance."
The Historic Millwork District provided the perfect backdrop, offering a similar kind of look and feel to Roy's Furniture, Rebecca said.
"It reminded me of Chicago, and it evolved just like my parents' store did in Chicago," said said. "It was made successful on the idea that we could offer looks that are trendy and furniture that is quality but at a price that people can actually afford. We've always seen that as our motto."
With the COVID-19 pandemic, business has been forced to come to a halt at the new location — and only a few months since RF2's relocation and ahead of what normally is a busy season in the industry. However, Rebecca and Eddie remain optimistic.
"We are launching a new website, working with customers through Facebook and looking at setting up private appointments so that customers have more of an opportunity to find what they want," Rebecca said. "Dubuque is very supportive of its local business — more so than even Chicago. It's just amazing to me about this community."
It's a resilient spirit that is evident in Rebecca as well and one that Eddie said he always has admired about his beloved.
"I've worked side-by-side with her for many years, and I know my place in the system," he said, with a laugh. "Whenever anybody comes into the store, they always ask, 'Is Becky around?' She's the heart, soul and brains behind the design of the whole place."
Megan Gloss is the Features Editor for the Telegraph Herald.

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Miners and the Ottoman State: Ryan Gingeras Interviews Donald Quataert
With the official death toll having exceeded three hundred, the Soma mining disaster has raised new questions about the conditions and rights of laborers in Turkey. Amidst the darkly farcical internet circus surrounding the rescue efforts, public outcry, and official reaction to this catastrophe, one of the more surreal moments has been the Prime Minister's citation of nineteenth-century mining disasters as examples of the natural and inevitable nature of mining accidents in general. This statement, which was widely interpreted as a sign of flagrant insensitivity and indifference, also inadvertently raised the question of whether Turkish workers today are subjected to conditions similar to the unregulated industrial economies of European cities prior to rise of labor movements.
Ottoman historians have less to go on when seeking answers to questions regarding the history of workers in the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey in comparison with their counterparts. Despite the long history of labor movements in Turkey, the historiography on Ottoman workers such as miners has been relatively thin, particularly among Anglophone historians who have tended to focus on the Ottoman state and its institutions. However, one pioneering figure in the study of labor and miners in the Ottoman Empire was the late Donald Quataert. From the 1970s onwards, he was one of very few scholars writing in English on the topic of workers and labor in the late Ottoman period. His 2006 monograph, entitled Miners and the State in the Ottoman Empire, offered a rare view of the lived experience of miners in Zonguldak during the late Ottoman period.
Donald Quataert passed away in 2011, leaving behind a rich scholarly legacy and having trained generations of students who shared his enthusiasm for the topic of workers and labor. Thanks to Ryan Gingeras (now Assistant Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School), who interviewed Dr. Quataert in 2008 about Miners and the State, Ottoman History Podcast is pleased to bring the voice of this hugely influential scholar to bear on conversations of the present.
Our reposting of the 2008 discussion between Gingeras and Quataert offers a glimpse at what will likely be a scholarly work of interest within the field of Ottoman history for years to come. Yet even more compelling for aspiring students and scholars of labor history during the late Ottoman period may be Dr. Quataert's remarks about the development of his book project and his research materials, which took him away from the Ottoman archives to the region of Zonguldak itself in search of miners' voices. This will be inspiring for young historians searching for materials that go beyond the vocabulary of state and industry in their detail about the lives of workers, in order to explore issues regarding the past and present of labor and mining in Turkey.
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Ryan Gingeras is currently an Assistant Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School. He holds a PhD from the University of Toronto. In addition to his 2009 work entitled Sorrowful Shores: Violence, Ethnicity, and the End of the Ottoman Empire, 1912-1923, he is the author of a forthcoming monograph on the history of drug trafficking in the Middle East.
Chris Gratien is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University researching the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East.
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Identify the template strand of DNA when the sequences of DNA and mRNA are given. Please give examples.
mRNA will be AAUGCAUCGCCCU, where uracil is instead of thymine according to the complementary pairing.
If we have m RNA sequence: 5'AUGCGCUAAUCGC 3', then due to the same rule of the complementary pairing we can predict the former DNA sequence: 5'TACGCGATTAGCG 3', where thymine is present instead of uracile.
1. Write the sequence of mRNA if the sequence of double stranded DNA is provided.
2. what two chemicals interfere with DNA and RNA activity?


Residents and property owners are continuing to complain about inadequate garbage collection around Grand Cayman.
In mid-December, Department of Environmental Health officials said trash service was returning to normal following a slowdown because of a labor dispute. But some residents say their neighborhoods have gone a week or more without any pickup.
A spokeswoman for the Department of Environmental Health said she was unable to reach anyone on Tuesday who could comment on the situation.
In the community of East End, overflowing garbage cans and stacks of garbage bags sit in front of residences that line Sea View Road.
George Rankin, 63, said there have been long periods between pickups in the past two months.
Mr. Rankin said he had not called environmental health officials to complain.
Across the street, Chad Mitchell Ebanks, 30, said he had spoken with East End MLA Arden McLean two weeks ago.
"He said he was going to get them to come around," Mr. Ebanks said. Since then, he added, a pile of large items – part of the annual oversized materials collection – had been hauled away, but the residential trash has not.
Piles of trash such as this one are a common sight along Sea View Road in East End.
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This offering is an excerpt from the speech I gave on October 4th, 2007, at the United Nations, during a session honoring my mother, Julia T. Alvarez, and her long years of service as an alternate representative to the Dominican Mission to the United Nations. See full description under NEWS.
It is a bittersweet assignment to have my mother, Julia Tavares Alvarez, ask me to represent her here today. To bring to a close a long, indefatigable, and inspiring career in public service. I am one of four daughters, so Mami had to pick one of us to represent her. I think she decided on me because I'm known as "the writer in the family." Still I have to pinch myself to believe that my mother will truly let me have the last word!
. . . Many of you have known my mother in her public role as ambassador. You've helped her in her battles and have shared this work with her. I ask you to forgive me if I've made you all minor characters in this story and given my own mother the principal role -- it's the handicap of giving the podium to her daughter. But before I close I would like to leave you with a different image of my mother, not as public ambassador, but a behind-the-scenes story that speaks volumes about the way my mother approached her work at the United Nations and indeed everything in her life.
My mother, who will always be known as "Mami" to her four daughters, is preparing to go to work. She has put on her raincoat with a zippered lining and is about to close her briefcase when I glance inside. Beside a stack of folders, there is a roll of paper towels and a bottle of Windex.
"Mami!" I laugh. "Why are you taking that to work?"
"You should see those windows at the Mission," my mother replies. "They are so dirty." Hers is a poor country with a small budget that can't afford the luxury of a daily cleaning service. "Somebody has to clean them."
Make no mistake about it, my vision is not about simply shifting resources in the spirit of giving, but rather the creation of a true world community of feeling and consciousness. This is a world in which people have the same status. This is a vision that is not about charity, but rather, solidarity.
Copyright © Julia Alvarez 2007-2019.


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Pope Francis: `Gay lobby' exists inside Vatican
By Daniel Burke, CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor
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(CNN) - Pope Francis said a "gay lobby" exists inside the Vatican, a surprising disclosure from a pope who has already delivered his share of stunners, and a resurrection of church conflicts that had bedeviled his predecessor's papacy.
"In the Curia," Francis said, referring to Catholicism's central bureaucracy, "there are holy people. But there is also a stream of corruption."
"The 'gay lobby' is mentioned, and it is true, it is there," Francis continued. "We need to see what we can do."
READ MORE: The pope said what? Six stunners from Francis
Hints that the Holy See contained a network of gay clergy surfaced last year in reports about a series of embarrassing leaks to Italian journalists.
The "Vatileaks" scandal factored in Pope Emeritus Benedict XIV's shocking decision to resign earlier this year, according to some church experts, as it impressed upon the 86-year-old pontiff that the modern papacy requires a vigorous and watchful presence.
Francis' enigmatic comments came during a meeting Sunday with CLAR, the Latin American and Caribbean Confederation of Religious Men and Women, who head Catholic communities of priests, sisters and monks.
The Chilean website Reflection and Liberation, which focuses on Catholic theology, first reported Francis' remarks. The Catholic blog Rorate Caeli translated the report into English.
A Vatican spokesman told CNN, "The Holy See Press Office has no official comment on the private meeting."
Gay and lesbian Catholic groups did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests said, "structure, not sexuality, is the real issue."
"The church is a monarchy. Monarchs are unaccountable. So many monarchs are corrupt. This is true in both secular and religious institutions," SNAP said in a statement.
Other Catholics counseled caution about reading too much into the pope's remarks.
"We don't have any explanation of what 'gay lobby' means," said Rocco Palmo, a Vatican watcher who runs Whispers in the Loggia, a website on Catholic news and church politics.
"Naturally, some in the church will try to polarize or interpret this, but as the rest of us aren't pope, we still have to get further explanation," Palmo added.
Church experts say the Chilean report rings true since the wide-ranging conversation centers on concerns that Francis has made touchstones of his nascent papacy.
In contrast to the buttoned-up Benedict, Francis has earned an early reputation for speaking off the cuff, often ditching prepared remarks in favor of more informal conversations.
On Friday, Francis nixed his "boring" speech and instead took questions from young Catholic students. Asked by a little girl if he wanted to be pope, Francis laughed and said that only someone who "doesn't love himself" would want the position.
Last month, the pope sparked a worldwide debate by suggesting that atheists might be able to earn a spot in heaven.
"He has said some things that would turn Benedict whiter than the papal vestments," Palmo joked.
Francis told the Catholic leaders on Sunday to focus on the poor, that the Vatican must be reformed, and joked that whoever wagered on his long-shot election as pope "won a lot, of course."
But his comments on the "gay lobby" are likely to gain the most attention, especially in the West, where Catholic leaders have been mounting a fierce fight against same-sex marriage.
After Benedict announced his resignation in February, reports circulated that a "gay lobby" had forced his hand.
Cardinals appointed by the former pope to find the source of the leaks investigated high-level Vatican clergy involved in homosexual affairs who might have been vulnerable to blackmail, according to La Repubblica, a leading Italian newspaper.
La Repubblica reported that the cardinals found evidence of a "gay lobby" within the Vatican but gave few details about it.
"Some high level clergy are exposed to the `external influence' – what we would call blackmail – of lay people to whom they are connected through ties of a `worldly nature,'" La Repubblica wrote.
The Vatican blasted the newspaper reports as "unverified, unverifiable and completely false."
Francis is one of the few Catholic leaders to have seen the Vatican report.
The so-called Vatileaks scandal led to Benedict's butler, Paolo Gabriele, being convicted on charges last year of leaking private papers from the the pope's private office. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison.
'Gay lobby' behind pope's resignation? Not likely
John Allen, CNN's senior Vatican analyst, has said it would have been odd if the Vatican report had not considered the possibility that "insiders leading a double life," including sexually active clergy, might be vulnerable to pressure to betray the pope.
"It seems a stretch, however, to suggest this is the real reason," behind Benedict's resignation, Allen said.
In one of his first actions as pope, Francis created a council of eight cardinals, including Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston, to offer suggestions on reforming the Vatican.
"The reform of the Roman Curia is something that almost all Cardinals asked for in the congregations preceding the Conclave," Francis said, referring to the meetings that led up to his election in March. "I also asked for it."
But Francis said that he cannot promote the reform himself. "I am very disorganized," he said, adding, "I have never been good at this."
Instead, the pope said, he is relying on his eight appointed cardinals to move the reforms forward.
CNN's Richard Greene contributed to this report.
Daniel Burke - CNN Religion Editor
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Jesus taught about repentance... where's the gay man/woman that repents.. does that even exist? We should be more concerned about that... I'm a sinner that repents, and prays about forgiveness.. and 100% straight. Glory to God.
i am not picking on this animal. honestly. i have nothing against her personally. she's just such a sick, sick, violently disturbed god-hating nazi fascist felon, i can't help but use her as a prime example why we will prevail in the largest lawsuit in the history of our democracy ""meeting jesus christ is like exquisite s e x u a l delight"
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You taught them well. At least 4 out of the 9 got it right. Sadly, 2 of yours were led astray 🙁
So... what is new with this? Like I said before, IDOLATRY IS NOT Religion, IDOLATRY IS A VERY SERIOUS SIN. As such it carries within itself a host of other SINS like this one.
Hey creationists chad too and the ICR chew on native iron stones all your life...............it drives the medical tests nuts !
19. Solar nebula (repeat)
Most meteorites are very old, as old as the solar system (4.6 billion years). Because meteorites haven't changed much since then, they are the best clues we have to the origin and history of the solar system and of the Earth. (Painting by Don Dixon, NASA JSC photo S76-25001)
http://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/education/SlideSets/ExpMetMys/Slides35-42.htm
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2013/05/05/when-christians-become-a-hated-minority/
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2013/06/04/atheists-to-start-1-800-hotline/comment-page-27/#comments
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There should be a gay lobby in the Vatican to represent the many Catholics who are gay, as well as the gay priests, who hold ranks up to Cardinal.
What His Holiness Francis should dump is priests who se xually abuse children, regardless of the children's gender.
Frandis should allow priests to marry. Many R.C. women should be ordained as priests.
No divine designer needed.
Video animation: RNA interference
http://www.nature.com/nrg/multimedia/rnai/animation/index.html
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