Pope Leo XIV. will accept representatives of the reform movement We Are Church. The announcement signals dialogue on current issues in the Catholic Church.
Pope Leo XIV. For the first time, he will accept representatives of the Catholic Association, which promotes the greater rights of LGBT persons within the Church, the ordination of women for priests and the possibility for priests to get married. As the Ansa informed on Thursday, admission will take place in October as part of the celebrations of this year’s anniversary.
Representatives of the We Are Church Association (We are the Church) will take part in the Jubilee of the Synodal Teams at the end of October in the Vatican, which was invited by Cardinal Mario Grech, who is the general secretary of the Synod planned from 24 to 26 October. Its participants will also meet with Pope Leo XIV, says Vatican News.
A meeting in the Vatican
In many questions, the international movement We Are Church disagrees with the Vatican – from the LGBT issue through the ordination of women, the marriages of priests to economic reforms within the Church.
Ansa recalled that the Vatican continues to reject the ordination of women and married unions of priests and states that only homosexuals living in celibacy can be part of the ecclesiastical community.
Attitude to registered volumes
Although the Catholic Church does not allow the same -sex marriages, the lion of the predecessor, the late Pope Francis, he expressed support for the registered union and even approved a blessing for registered unions of same -sex persons.
The We Are Church movement is part of the wider effort within various Christian denominations for greater acceptance and inclusion of the LGBTQ+ community, some, such as the Episcopal Church or the Protestant United Church of Christ, already accepts LGBTQ+ persons and their relationships.
