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Between now and October 2024, the Vatican has asked Catholics to both deepen and broaden their engagement with the Synod. To help LGBTQ+ people and allies respond to this invitation, New Ways Ministry is hosting a panel featuring two Synod delegates, Dr. Cynthia Bailey Manns and Julia Osęka.
“Let us hear your voice. Let us hear your stories. Use us to make sure that it’s amplified.” This was the exhortation made by a delegate to the Synod on Synodality’s General Assembly while speaking to LGBTQ+ Catholics and allies last week.
The countdown to the Synod on Synodality’s final global assembly in October 2024 has begun, and there are many questions both about what may change by year’s end and if anything has changed already. An article in U.S. Catholic provided some analysis about the Synod and change as it relates to issues of church reform.
In Fiducia Supplicans—and even more so in the pro-LGBTQ+ movements in Germany, Flanders, and elsewhere that brought it about—I see the lived diversity that Pope Francis says “should make us rejoice!”
Today’s post concludes our series highlighting some of the more LGBTQ-positive participants in this October’s assembly for the Synod on Synodality, as the process is informally known.