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Coming out stories never get old. Each one is a gem: a blend of overcoming fear, dealing with rejection, sometimes being surprised by acceptance, and feeling the freedom of being authentic. Damian Torres-Botello, SJ, a staff member of the Performing Arts Department at the University of Detroit-Mercy, recently shared his coming out story with his campus.
Yesterday, Bondings 2.0 featured reactions to the Synod on Youth from several LGBT-positive observers. Today’s post engages a more moderate voice when it comes to the Synod and LGBT issues, one whose analysis ultimately fails due to false equivocation.
With President Donald Trump seeking to erase transgender people as a category, will the U.S. bishops be complicit in this egregious human rights violation or will they at last defend the trans community when it faces attacks?
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.
What if the term ‘LGBT’ does not appear in the synod’s final report as it did in the original working document known as the Instrumentum Laboris?
That was the question posed by The Tablet’s Christopher Lamb to the five synod participants at the press briefing yesterday. Why was it such an important question?
Reports from the Synod on Youth indicate that LGBT issues are being raised in at least two ways: whether to use the term “LGBT” in a church document and whether to refer to same-gender couples and their children as “families.”
LGBT Christians must be welcomed fully into the church, said an Italian bishop, because what matters first is their identity as Christians who are wholly part of the baptized faithful.
A French bishop participating at the Synod on Youth has called on the church to not be afraid of sexuality, but to instead begin an honest conversation about it and engage LGBT youth and their allies with a new pastoral model.