Pope Leo XIV LGBTQ Catholics continues the Francis heritage for acceptance
In the eyes of many gay Catholics, the late Pope Francis invented a “seismic shift” towards acceptance. Now, while the world welcomes the newly -elected Leo XIV, these gay and gay believers say sex and the believers that they hope to continue to move in the same direction.
Marian Dodi Burke, Executive Director of LGBTQ for Catholic Call dignityHe was in Rome on Thursday when Cardinal Robert Brevost, a 69 -year -old Chicago citizen with the nationality of the United States and Peruvian, became a new back.
“I was very excited to see that Cardinal Pierrest was elected as Pope Liu.” I also found a lot of hope in his statements from the balcony … as he talked about God’s comprehensive love without any condition, and where he talked about being a church for all God’s people. “
Jason Sidel Jack, a Catholic gay and professor of teaching religious studies at St. Joseph University, New York, described his reaction to the election of Pope Liu, the first American ever leading the Apostolic Chair, as “optimistic with caution.”
“I see him continues to the legacy of Pope Francis, especially dialogue and analytical,” said Sidel Jack. However, he said that the election of the new Pope “does not calm all the concerns that I have LGBTQ.”
He said, “The teachings of the Church, even under Pope Francis, are still incredibly gay, and the church continues to devise new ways to be through phobia because it really avoids identifying people who cross and their experiences,” he said, however, that the new Pope seems “open to dialogue and inclusion” given his observations on Thursday.
Chicago, Greg Krajioski, said he was a Catholic practicing throughout his life and sings in his local diocese every Sunday. However, he said, as a gay man, that he was “warned of talking to him and how to show myself.”
“There are some things in his opening speech, which he truly gave me a lot of hope.” “The first thing he said several times,” God loves us without limits or conditions. “I think this is a really big indication that even if he himself has more reservations about LGBTQ issues in the church, he is open to those discussions.
A busy record in LGBTQ issues
Liu’s previous comments on LGBTQ issues are limited, although many LGBTQ have expressed concern about the notes he made in a speech to church leaders for more than a decade. During the 2012 bishops, Senodes, the former father was said to have regretted the challenges submitted to the Catholic Church due to the filming of the sympathetic media about the “alternative families”.
He told a group of bishops at that time, “Note, for example, how alternative families consisting of homosexual partners and their adopted children are depicted in a benign and emotional way in TV programs and in the cinema.” According to the Catholic news service. “The sympathy for the anti -Christian lifestyle options that are enhanced by the media that enhances it brilliantly and ingenuity in viewing the public to the point that when people hear the Christian message, they often appear emotional ideology and emotional in contrast to the visible humanity of the anti -Maryer perspective.”
Francis Dipranardo, CEO of New Ways, who is enhancing LGBTQ in the Catholic Church, described notes as “disappointing”.
“We are praying that during the 13 -year -old, 12 of which were under Pope Francis, that his heart and mind have evolved more gradually in LGBTQ+ issues, and we will take a position to wait and see to see if this had happened.”
Sidel Jack said that Liu seemed to have a “cultural warrior mentality” on gay marriage and the representation of LGBTQ in pop culture in 2012, but he expressed his hope that the Pope’s new views have changed since then.
He said: “A lot of the world has changed since 2012 – so that Pope Francis has changed much over the period of his Pontefat.” “So I hope that Pope Liu listens to the LGBTQ.
The views on LGBTQ issues have turned significantly over the past decade, including the views of Catholic practitioners. For example, a religious landscape study was found at the Pew Research Center 2023-24, which was found that 19 % of adults in the United States. 70 % of Catholics prefer to allow couples of the same sex to marry57 % in 2014.
Michael Uloulin, Outreach CEO, Catholic LGBTQ, was in Rome to announce the new Pope. He said that 2012 comments were disappointing, but he kept an open mind.
“I am ready to look at his broader message, which was one of peace and standing on the marginalized,” he said. “The fact that he turned into Spanish to address his former community in Peru, I thought it was a nice sign of a man.”
After 2012, Papa’s subsequent observations on LGBTQ issues are separate.
In 2017, when he was the bishop of Chicoli, Peru, and a spokesman for the Episcopal Conference in Peru, he seemed to speak against the “gender ideology”, a term that some people use to refer to the identities of transgender people, and tells us Local media This ideology “seeks to eliminate biological differences between men and women.”
Then, in 2024, one year after Pope Francis officially agreed to allow the Catholic priests to bless couples of the same sex, the elderly prefestust said that the recovery of the subsequent pressure from the bishops in Africa highlighted the need to give more doctrinal power to the local bishops,, According to CBCPNEWSThe news service for the Catholic Bishops Conference.
“The bishops in the Episcopal Conferences in Africa were mainly saying that here in Africa, our cultural reality is completely different … He did not reject the authority of teaching in Rome, it was saying that our cultural situation is that the application of this document would not work,” according to CBCPNEWS. “You have to remember that there are still places in Africa that apply the death penalty, for example, for people who live in a gay relationship … Therefore, we are in completely different worlds.”
Hopes in the future
When I was asked what you want to see from Liu’s papal, Dodi Burke said she hoped to make a “reliable moral voice”.
“The world is currently broken in many places – as you know, this national height, the increase of foreigners, and a lot of wars that occur very evil all over the world – I only hope it will become a clear and reliable moral sound in the world, and some means dealing with inequality and failures within our church as well,” she said.
Stedel Jack said he hoped to listen to Catholics with different views.
He said: “One of the talents of the papacy Pope Francis was that he encouraged the church leaders to get out of the church and listen to people outside the hierarchical sequence, and this is what Pope Liu should do, especially with regard to relations of the same sex and the experience of transgender people.”
In his statement he said that he hoped to continue building on the basis of Francis.
He said: “Pope Francis opened the door to a new approach to LGBTQ+.” “Pope Liu must now direct the church through this door.”