Pope Leo XIV confirmed his intent to include LGBTQ parishioners within the Catholic Church ahead of their planned Holy Year pilgrimage to Vatican City.
its interesting right? i suppose they could argue giving full support for the right things may be too freeing for the people initially or something, so they are in theory easing people into love slowly changing the minds of thr populous over time. but pretty sure Jesus just preached love from the beginning so its a mute point i feel.
Moot* but yeah, I agree. If religion was based purely on fact, or anything resembling reality, it wouldn’t need to change. But since it’s a construct made out of a desire to understand things, it has to change. Especially with the advent of science. Since science progresses, religion must as well or they’ll lose everybody eventually. Personally, I don’t see this as anything but a way to shore up their numbers, like when recruitment is down in the military, they start accepting people that they ordinarily wouldn’t.
As much as I hate to say it, personal opinions of the time and politics of the time were big influences in the church in the past, even more than today. We’re a lot more accepting as a society today than we were in the past. I hope the church makes the right choice and keeps on its path of improving its relations with LGBTQ community and keeps to the word of love thy neighbor because its felt like it’s been forgotten at times.
its interesting right? i suppose they could argue giving full support for the right things may be too freeing for the people initially or something, so they are in theory easing people into love slowly changing the minds of thr populous over time. but pretty sure Jesus just preached love from the beginning so its a mute point i feel.
Moot* but yeah, I agree. If religion was based purely on fact, or anything resembling reality, it wouldn’t need to change. But since it’s a construct made out of a desire to understand things, it has to change. Especially with the advent of science. Since science progresses, religion must as well or they’ll lose everybody eventually. Personally, I don’t see this as anything but a way to shore up their numbers, like when recruitment is down in the military, they start accepting people that they ordinarily wouldn’t.
oh yeah moot. thnx.
As much as I hate to say it, personal opinions of the time and politics of the time were big influences in the church in the past, even more than today. We’re a lot more accepting as a society today than we were in the past. I hope the church makes the right choice and keeps on its path of improving its relations with LGBTQ community and keeps to the word of love thy neighbor because its felt like it’s been forgotten at times.