Vatican Sorry For Removing LGBTQ Resource From Site

The Associated Press reports:

A Vatican official has apologized to a leading Catholic LGBTQ advocacy group for having yanked a reference to it from the Vatican website, saying he realized the move caused pain and that the Catholic Church does indeed want to include gays and hear from them.

The Vatican’s General Secretariat for the Synod of Bishops, which is organizing a two-year consultation of rank-and-file Catholics ahead of a 2023 meeting of bishops at the Vatican, restored the reference to New Ways Ministries on the website over the weekend.

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News: A good example of true reconciliation in the church. The Rome office of @Synod_va apologizes to @NewWaysMinistry, an LGBTQ Catholic ministry, and New Ways “warmly accepts” the apology, with both pointing the way forward for LGBTQ Catholics. https://t.co/toxboJvXQh

— James Martin, SJ (@JamesMartinSJ) December 13, 2021