“We are all in Christ”. The appointment of the Book of Galatians serves as a porch for the meeting that this August will make Madrid in the world capital of LGTBI Catholics with the celebration of the World Assembly of the Global Network of Rainbow Catholics/Global Rainbow Catholics, The biggest meeting place of “Brothers/As/is from communities like ours for the whole world,” confirm the Christian communities of Madrid (Crismhom and Ichthys), in charge of their coordination
From 21 to 25 of next August, the Miguel Antonio Caro Colegio will host more than a hundred people in a new platform meeting that empowers LGBTQ+ Catholics worldwide, “joining voices from around the world to inspire change and promote inclusion within the Catholic Church.” Among the guest speakers, are theologians such as Cristina Inogés, James Allison, María Luisa Berzosa or Renato Lings. The Cardinal of Madrid, José Cobo, is up to date. Cobo is still successor at the time of the now Cardinal Emeritus Antonio Rouco Varela, one of the greatest opponents, among other things, of the marriage (civil) between people of the same sex. In the coming weeks, invitations will be sent to representatives of the different believing sensibilities, as Raúl Peña, spokesman for Crishmhom.
“It is an important event, which shows that Crismhom already has a relevance beyond Madrid,” says Peña, who insists on the “privileged situation” of the capital, “especially for LGTBI Catholics in Latin America and Africa” that live “in a situation much worse than Europeans or American, with episcopal conferences that support laws that come to justify the prison. even the death penalty. ” In this sense, the presence in Madrid “is a breath of fresh air for them.”
Julián Muñoz is an intertwined coordinator (Crismhom External Network Area) and who is taking the organization of the event. In his opinion, “it is an opportunity not only to publicize the community in the international arena, but also to publicize the Spanish Church the existence of a network of communities of LGTBI people”, because “we are not isolated realities, or extreme people.” And, far from stereotypes, LGTBIQ+ Catholic communities have “different ways of approaching the phenomenon of faith.”
Among the objectives of the conference is to “land everything that has been generated around the synod of the synodality and see what concretion can have the dialogues and debates that have been opened”, especially the changes in the LGTBI pastoral in the church, one of the taboo themes and that the Synod has placed in the first line of debate. “In official documents we finally talk about us as LGTBI people and not how some fundamentalist groups do, who see us as people who suffer or simplify us as people who only have the same sex attraction,” Muñoz laments. Prejudices that have led many people, especially young, to get away from the Church. “There are two important issues. First of all, the youth pastoral with LGTBI people and, secondly, that of trans people.”
In the first area, the “detachment” to “respond to the call made to young people who live a diverse emotional and sexual orientation.” In this sense, from Crismhom you seek to listen to young people and their views. Regarding trans people, which “are the ones who suffer most discriminations, not only within the Catholic Church but also in work, in the social, even in health matters”, and those who also want to give voice and “incorporate in this synodal process honestly.”
Congress, in itself, “is not a claim, but a proposal” that also implies “listening to what the Church has to tell us,” Julian emphasizes. “Fortunately there are more and more routes of dialogue, there is more and more sensitivity among many groups, ecclesial, movements, congregations, even bishops,” he emphasizes. “It is not an activism encounter, it is a moment of synodality, of learning to walk together. To incorporate the church into our task as LGTBI evangelizers,” he concludes. “We are clear about our mission, what we want is to also delve into the bridges of communion and participation with the rest of the Church and make that synod project realize where we all participate, where you deepen the communion and also in the mission of LGTBI people towards LGTBI people, so that no one is outside the good news of Jesus.”
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