{"id":2439,"date":"2019-02-07T23:38:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T23:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alumniforacatholicusd.org\/?p=2439"},"modified":"2019-02-07T23:39:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T23:39:36","slug":"lgbt-should-not-be-in-vatican-documents-archbishop-chaput-tells-youth-synod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alumniforacatholicusd.org\/index.php\/2019\/02\/07\/lgbt-should-not-be-in-vatican-documents-archbishop-chaput-tells-youth-synod\/","title":{"rendered":"LGBT should not be in Vatican documents: Archbishop Chaput tells Youth Synod"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u2018LGBT\u2019 should not be in Vatican documents: Archbishop Chaput tells Youth Synod<\/p>\n

source: https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/archbishop-chaput-lgbt-should-not-be-used-in-vatican-youth-synod-document<\/a><\/p>\n

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VATICAN CITY, October 4, 2018 (LifeSiteNews<\/a>)\u00a0\u2014 Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia today told Pope Francis and members of the Synod of Bishops\u00a0that \u201cLGBTQ\u201d and other similar language should not be used in the Vatican Youth Synod document.<\/p>\n

In his intervention this morning on the floor of the Vatican\u2019s Synod Hall (see full text below), Archbishop Chaput said: \u201cThere is no such thing as an \u2018LGBTQ Catholic\u2019 or a \u2018transgender Catholic\u2019 or a \u2018heterosexual Catholic,\u2019 as if our sexual appetites defined who we are; as if these designations described discrete communities of differing but equal integrity within the real ecclesial community, the body of Jesus Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis has\u00a0never\u00a0<\/em>been true in the life of the Church, and is not true now,\u201d Chaput told the Pope, cardinals, bishops and young people convened\u00a0in the Synod Hall. \u201cIt follows that\u00a0\u2018<\/em>LGBTQ\u2019 and similar language should not be used in Church documents,<\/em>\u00a0because using it suggests\u00a0that these are real, autonomous groups, and the Church simply doesn\u2019t categorize people that way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Archbishop Chaput\u2019s remarks come just three days after Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, General Secretary for the Synod of Bishops,\u00a0refused to remove<\/a>\u00a0the term \u201cLGBT youth\u201d from the synod\u2019s working document (Instrumentum laboris<\/em>).<\/p>\n

At an Oct. 1 Vatican press conference, LifeSiteNews\u00a0reminded Cardinal Baldisseri that he had\u00a0initially claimed the phrase\u00a0\u201cLGBT youth\u201d was a quote taken from a pre-synodal document\u00a0compiled by young people at their meeting with the Pope and Synod organizers, March 19-24, 2018.<\/p>\n

We told Baldisseri that we had looked at the\u00a0final document<\/a>\u00a0compiled by young people, and the acronym \u201cLGBT\u201d appears nowhere.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not there?\u201d Baldisseri replied. \u201cNo,\u201d we said.<\/p>\n

This correspondent therefore asked Cardinal Baldisseri if he would consider removing the phrase \u201cLGBT youth\u201d from the\u00a0Instrumentum Laboris<\/em>\u00a0to avoid it being inserted into the final document, and becoming part of the Magisterium of the Church.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook, I am not removing anything,\u201d Cardinal Baldisseri responded. \u201cThe Synod Fathers will discuss it article by article. All the texts, even the loftiest in the world, will be discussed.\u201d<\/p>\n

The passage in question, contained in paragraph 197 of the\u00a0Instrumentum Laboris<\/em>, reads:<\/p>\n

Some LGBT youth, through various contributions that came to the Secretariat of the Synod, wish to \u201cbenefit from a greater closeness\u201d and experience greater care on the part of the Church, while some ECs [Episcopal Conferences] ask what to propose \u201cto young people who instead of forming a heterosexual couple decide to form a homosexual couple and, above all, wish to be close to the Church.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Holy See has never used the acronym \u201cLGBT\u201d in a Vatican document.<\/p>\n

Fr. James Martin, SJ\u00a0swiftly\u00a0responded to news of Archbishop Chaput\u2019s synod intervention, tweeting out:<\/p>\n

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Why should we use “LGBT” or “LGBTQ” in the church? Because people have a right to name themselves, and this is the name many choose. And there is such a “thing” as an “LGBTQ Catholic” and a “transgender catholic.” They are members of the Body of Christ. http:\/\/www.<\/span>catholicherald.co.uk\/news\/2018\/10\/04\/archbishop-chaput-tells-synod-lgbtq-should-not-be-used-in-documents\/#.W7Y63yrHuvI.twitter\u00a0<\/span>\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n

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Archbishop Chaput tells synod: \u2018LGBTQ\u2019 should not be used in Church documents<\/h2>\n

The archbishop argued that the Church does not \u2018categorise people\u2019 by their \u2018sexual appetites\u2019<\/p>\n

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