Using strikingly open language, an interim report of a Vatican synod on modern family life says the church needs to welcome and appreciate gays, and offers a solution for divorced and remarried Catholics who want to receive Communion.
At a press conference to present the report, Cardinal Tagle of the Philippines said the most discussed topics at the Synod so far were the impact of poverty, war and immigration on families.
But one veteran Vatican journalist called the newly proposed language on gays and civil marriages a “pastoral earthquake.”
“Regarding homosexuals, it went so far as to pose the question whether the church could accept and value their sexual orientation without compromising Catholic doctrine,” said John Thavis, a former Rome bureau chief for Catholic News Service.
Almost everything I have read on the synod from Catholic sources has been deeply disturbing.
indeed no. 1, i’m very worried.
Does this mean they are going to allow practicing homosexuals back into the priesthood?