As the world’s top bishops and cardinals meet at the Vatican for the next three weeks to talk about the church’s doctrine on the family, it seems that LGBT Catholics are still very much on the minds of the bishops, The Huffington Post reports.
Rev. Thomas Rosica, one of the Holy See’s English press officers, said that several bishops raised the need for new language and a new approach to gay Catholics that was more “inclusionary.”
“We do not pity gay persons, but we recognize (them) for who they are. They are our sons and daughters and brothers and sisters and neighbors and colleagues,” Rosica said during a press conference on Tuesday, recalling the bishop’s speeches at the meeting.
During last year’s big bishop meeting on family life, synod organizers issued a draft report mid-way through extending a revolutionary welcome to gays. The bishops pulled back on the welcome and watered it down in their final report.
To prevent a repeat, no mid-term report will be issued this year.
