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A top cardinal in the U.S. has described Church teaching’s language about homosexuality as “very unfortunate” and said he hopes it will become “a little less hurtful” in the future.
Catholics in Malta have sharply rejected claims by fellow Christians who support of “ex-gay” therapies, including one Church representative saying “it can’t be bad to be gay because God created it” and a group of LGBT Catholics and their parents publishing a supportive open letter.
‘Heterosexuality or homosexuality is not the cause of pedophilia.’
Guess who thinks that gay priests are NOT responsible for the sex abuse crisis?
A lead organizer for the Vatican’s summit on clergy sexual abuse this week has said homosexuality is neither a cause of abuse nor a central problem in the priesthood.
Church officials in Scotland are defending the posting of “ex-gay” therapy resources on a diocesan website, raising anew many Catholic leaders’ problematic and ambiguous stance to this horrible practice.
This past summer, the United Kingdom has became the latest nation to ban “conversion therapy” for gay and lesbian people. Other nations and all churches should follow suit.
Statements from church officials and protestors alike targeted gay priests and Fr. James Martin, SJ, during the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ assembly in Baltimore this week. These statements are but some of several signs that the U.S. episcopate still strongly resists Pope Francis’ efforts at church reform.
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.
With the Synod on Youth now underway in Rome, Bondings 2.0 explores the LGBT records of a sampling of delegates from outside the U.S. The following bishops are just some of the 300-plus delegates participating in the Synod (a full list available here). It is unclear if and how LGBT issues will be addressed, who might be the key bishops involved in any discussion, and whether there will be positive outcomes.