Synod of young People. card. Tagle: the "Church must be welcoming" with the lGBT Communities

Article published by Agensir.it on 23 october 2018

"The Church must always be a welcoming Church, which always considers everyone's humanity and is always present next to everyone". Card. Luis Antonio Tagle, Archbishop of Manila, thus answered a question about the LGBT communities, during today's briefing on the Synod, in the Vatican press room. "The Church approach to LGBT communities was present, it was a theme addressed several times by the bishops"The cardinal reported starting from the experience of his Minor Circle.
As for the presence or absence of the LGBT term in the final document of the Synod of Bishops on young people, whose draft was read this morning in the classroom, Tagle replied: "We received the draft only this morning, we must spend the whole afternoon and evening to read it. My feeling, however, is that these themes will be part of the final document".

Asked on the presence of people with LGBT orientation in seminars, Tagle has made it known that in its minor circle "the theme of the human gaze of the Church towards people, regardless of their sexual orientation, was very present". "The theme of their presence in the seminars - he added - it has not emerged, but it is very clear that while the constant attitude is to respect human dignity and the human person, in different stages of life, especially in the Church, there are requirements that we must consider to adequately exercise the ministry ". “We hope that the human and respectful attitude of the Church is not seen in contradiction with these requirements", The hope.

"I noticed that the Synod was particularly sensitive to the female voice ", Tagle continued by answering a question about how much the women's voice was heard by the 267 Synod Fathers. "In my Minor Circle - he added - we realized that the force of wisdom coming from women must be listened to. There have been very punctual proposals that also referred to the need to take more into consideration the figures of women present in the Holy Scriptures, to use them as interpretative figures of the experiences of young people and throw new light on them. At the Synod, women and religious favored an expansion of the horizon that was necessary, starting not only from cultural diversity, but of the unique experience that as women can offer to pastoral care".