The Italian newspaper “Corriere della Sera” released several passages from Pope Francis’ autobiographical book entitled “Life. My Story in History,” written with Vatican journalist Fabio Marchese Ragona, set to be released on March 19 by HarperCollins, according to Vatican News.

While homosexual marriage remains impossible, Pope Francis said, this is not the case for civil unions, because “it is right that these people who live the gift of love can have legal coverage like everyone else.”

As in other moments, Pope Francis’s words are an encouragement to make people who are often marginalized within the Church feel at home, “especially those who have received baptism and are in all respects part of the people of God. And those who have not received baptism and wish to receive it, or who wish to act as godfathers or godmothers, please, let them be welcomed.”

The Pope did not hide the wounds caused by those who believe he “is destroying the papacy.”

Even if there is “always someone trying to hinder reform, who would like to remain stuck in the times of the Pope-king,” he said, the fact remains that “the Vatican is the last absolute monarchy in Europe, and that often inside here, reasoning and court maneuvers are made, but these schemes must be definitively abandoned.”

In the passages released on Thursday, the Pope clarified that were he to resign, he would not choose to be called “Pope Emeritus” but simply “Bishop Emeritus of Rome.”