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For the first time this month, LGBTQ+ issues were prominent at a Vatican press briefing. Though the speakers faced repeated questions from journalists, however, their responses were minimal but, in one instance, quite surprising. Today’s post features this news and other items as the Synod’s assembly concludes this week.
How can we reconcile the two imperatives of Francis’ papacy: to be outward-looking to bring the Gospel to the ends of the world, to all cultures, and to be open to all human beings, whatever their condition and whoever they are?
ROME—For the first time since this month’s Synod assembly began, speakers at a Vatican press conference addressed LGBTQ+ issues directly. A U.S. cardinal’s message was: “Don’t go away.”
One possible trouble spot emerging at the Synod’s General Assembly is the question of the study groups Pope Francis established last March.
Pope Francis has named 21 new cardinals to be elevated at a December consistory, a number of whom have LGBTQ-positive records.
This week as the Synod on Synodality’s General Assembly began, their were repeated exhortations from leaders and delegates not to get caught up in gender and sexuality debates, pejoratively described as “niche issues” and “fashionable reforms.” But, for some participants these are precisely what the Assembly should tackle.
Participants in the Synod on Synodality’s General Assembly are on retreat today to prepare spiritually for their deliberations, which formally begin this Wednesday. Throughout the month-long assembly, two spiritual assistants will guide them, one of whom recently made some LGBTQ-positive remarks.
The point of this grim litany is to suggest that the metaphors of “home” and “family” cannot be innocently invoked by a Church that seeks to welcome LGBTQ people.
A spiritual advisor to the Synod assembly said he “hoped it changed us,” referring to a delegate’s intervention about a bisexual youth who died by suicide.
Was Radcliffe using coded language to describe LGBTQ+ experience? I don’t think so. I think that if he wanted to make a point about LGBTQ+ people, he would have done so much more plainly.