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The Diocese of Davenport’s new guidelines on LGBTQ+ pastoral care are “strikingly positive,” and could possibly “shift the trend of transgender-negative diocesan policies in the U.S.,” contends Robert Shine, associate director of New Ways Ministry.
Against this idea, some Catholics claim that those of us who are trans should find our identity in Christ over and against our other identities. Under this view, we should participate in synodality not on the basis of diversity as ‘trans people,’ but simply as ‘Catholics’. However, neither of these approaches properly contextualise transness.
Gender and sexuality must be taken up by the church universal in a more enlightened, substantive, dialogical way. The Synod assembly risks failure if it avoids full examinations of such core questions.
This week, participants were included at the Vatican’s press briefings, and gender and sexuality issues have arisen several times at these events.
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.
Pope Francis’ homily has given me hope that even if my expectations for the Synod on Synodality are not met in full, it is still an important and worthwhile journey for the church to be on.
Clearly, my mind is on a lot of things, and as if that wasn’t enough, my heart is filled with excitement. I’m excited for a new way of being church that is emerging.
If the LGBT issue is raised, “then the Lord himself, through collective discernment, will tell us that for this topic, you need to follow this direction.”
If anyone worried that LGBTQ+ issues were going to get short shrift in synod discussions, that does not seem to be the case.
The first global assembly for the Synod on Synodality is now underway after yesterday’s opening Mass, and already LGBTQ+ issues have gained prominence. Today’s post features news and commentaries from the past week, which also included a separate document from Pope Francis expressing openness to blessing same-gender couples.