Mike Malloy - The Church Welcomes Gays...Maybe...A Little

[hschulein]

Catholic bishops ended a tense, two-week summit in Rome on Saturday without agreeing on how to minister to gays and lesbians or whether divorced and remarried Catholics should receive Holy Communion.

An interim report issued on Monday, and greeted with great fanfare from liberal Catholics, was heavily revised by Saturday. Sections were removed that had praised the "gifts" gays and lesbians offer the church, as well as the "precious support" same-sex partners give to one other.

Even the revised sections, though, failed to garner a two-thirds consensus from the nearly 200 bishops meeting here, revealing deep divisions in the highest levels of the Catholic Church.

Full story: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/18/world/vatican-final-report/

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Regards.

HERNAN
BUENOS AIRES
ARGENTINA

[TlalocW]

1. I don't know how it would work

Considering the church will always be trying to convert GLBT, and the GLBT aren't going to change, of course, but if the point of a church is to lead people to Jesus then the church's constant attacking of gays doesn't help. How can one come to God if you're not welcome in His house?

TlalocW

[markpkessinger]

2. The problem the Pope faceso . . .

. . . Is that during the course of the 35 years that comprised sister papacies of John Paul II and Benedict XVI, both popes made a point, as vacancies arose in the episcopacy, to appoint replacements with hardline, reactionary conservatives like themselves. AND they made a point to choose relatively young men to fill those positions, thus ensuring institutional inertia for many years to come, regardless of any more enlightened pope that may come along.