India’s Cardinal Gracias Wants Homosexuality Decriminalized
India’s top bishop supports the legalization of homosexuality in his country, which may now be possible…
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India’s top bishop supports the legalization of homosexuality in his country, which may now be possible…
Below is the next installment of Bondings 2.0’s reports from the Synod on Marriage and…
Crux has published an interview with India’s Cardinal Oswald Gracias in which he gives some insights into what the synod’s final report might be saying, based on what he has read in the draft.
Last week’s wonderful news that India’s Supreme Court decriminalized consensual sex between adults, in effect decriminalizing lesbian and gay relations, has rightly been received by accolades from around the globe. The only religious leader in India who spoke out for the rights of these sexual minorities was Cardinal Oswald Gracias, archbishop of Bombay
Today’s post includes story about a Maltese Catholic LGBTQ+ group’s new book, Greek bishops’ opposition to marriage equality, and a gathering of transgender-negative bishops in Prague.
Bishops in North Africa have endorsed “Fiducia Supplicans,” the Vatican declaration on blessings, breaking from a African bishops’ wider statement rejecting the declaration in harsh terms. Today’s post features this story and other development in the debate over blessings same-gender couples and others in “irregular” situations.
This week, New Ways Ministry is announcing a new resource that documents the LGBTQ-related records, good and bad, of Synod assembly participants to help understand how this conversation about inclusion and equality might proceed.
The participants’ list for the Synod’s next assembly causes both hope and disappointment for New Ways Ministry as we work for LGBTQ+ inclusion. This news commits us to continue working to ensure LGBTQ+ people will be heard in the church’s synodal process.
Some Catholic officials in India have affirmed the government’s opposition to marriage equality coming from the nation’s courts, diverging from several Indiana church leaders’ more position stance in recent years.