Historically, the Roman Catholic Church has unequivocally classified homosexuality as a "crime":
Council of Vienne (1312 AD)
1 Therefore it was against the Lord Jesus Christ himself that they fell into the sin of impious apostasy, the abominable vice of idolatry, the deadly crime of the Sodomites, and various heresies.
Pope Pius V - Horrendum Illud Scelus (1568 AD)
That horrible crime, for which corrupt and obscene cities were destroyed by fire through divine condemnation, causes us most bitter sorrow and shocks our mind, impelling us to repress such a crime with the greatest possible zeal.
1 Quite opportunely the Fifth Lateran Council [1512-1517] issued this decree: "Let any member of the clergy caught in that vice against nature, given that the wrath of God falls over the sons of perfidy, be removed from the clerical order or forced to do penance in a monastery" (chap. 4, X, V, 31).
2 So that the contagion of such a grave offense may not advance with greater audacity by taking advantage of impunity, which is the greatest incitement to sin, and so as to more severely punish the clerics who are guilty of this nefarious crime and who are not frightened by the death of their souls, we determine that they should be handed over to the severity of the secular authority, which enforces civil law.
3 Therefore, wishing to pursue with greater rigor than we have exerted since the beginning of our pontificate, we establish that any priest or member of the clergy, either secular or regular, who commits such an execrable crime, by force of the present law be deprived of every clerical privilege, of every post, dignity and ecclesiastical benefice, and having been degraded by an ecclesiastical judge, let him be immediately delivered to the secular authority to be put to death, as mandated by law as the fitting punishment for laymen who have sunk into this abyss.
Above, Pope Pius V (1504-1572 AD) issues a Bull to address sodomy, in which he references Romans 1:26-27, calls it a "crime" three times, and demands that all those found guilty of doing it be remanded to the secular authorities, and put to death.
However, Pope Francis, in an interview on January 24, 2023 with the Associated Press, stated:
Pope Francis - January 24, 2023 AD
We are all children of God. And God loves us as we are and for the strength that each of us has to fight for our dignity. Being homosexual is not a crime. It's not a crime. "Yes, but it's a sin". Well, yes, but let's make the distinction between sin and crime. But it's also a sin to lack charity with one another, so what about that?
The condemnation of homosexuality goes a long way back. Nowadays, for example, I think that more than fifty countries have legal convictions, and of those I think that ten, more or less, have the death penalty. They don't name it directly, but they say "those who have unnatural behaviors" - they try to say it in a hidden way. But there are countries that have this force or tendency, or at least cultures that have that strong tendency. I think it's unfair. Here in the audience, I actually get groups of people like that.
Every man and every woman must have a window in their lives where they can pour out their hope, and where they can see the dignity of God. Being homosexual is not a crime. It is a human condition.
Above, Pope Francis is commenting on homosexual acts, not orientation, as he says that what he is referring to is "a sin", and is punished with the death penalty in around ten countries. No country punishes orientation, because such a thing is impossible to prove until the act is carried out. Likewise, the Catholic Church does not teach that homosexual urges are of themselves sinful, yet Francis says that what he is referring to is "a sin". Therefore, he is stating that homosexual behavior should not be thought of as a crime, and criminalized, even though it is a sin. He confirmed that this is what he intended in a letter exchange with Outreach, a Catholic LGBT ministry.
He also re-affirmed this teaching during a press conference on February 5, 2023, during which he said the death penalty for homosexuality "is not just".
Pope Francis is correct in making the distinction between a sin and a crime - not every sin was criminally punished, under the Law of God. However, homosexuality was criminalized, and punished with death (Leviticus 20:13). This is what Pope Pius V above recommended as punishment. However, Pope Francis rejects the death penalty entirely, having abolished it as "inadequate from a moral standpoint" in 2018. Therefore, as is obvious to everyone with eyes still open to see the truth, Pope Francis has once again contradicted not only his own Church, but also the Word of God - teaching that God's Law was "unfair" for having criminalized homosexuality.