A major Catholic synod on youth, set for October, will tackle several controversial social issues affecting young believers around the world, including how to minister to people in gay relationships who want closeness to the Church.
“Some LGBT youth, through various contributions made to the Secretariat of the Synod, wish to ‘benefit from greater closeness’ and experience greater care by the Church, while some question what to propose ‘to young people who decide to form homosexual couples and, above all, want to be close to the Church,” reads an Italian-language version of the “Young People, the Faith and the Discernment of Vocation” document, published by the Vatican on Tuesday.
The detailed “instrumentum laboris” tackles several different issues affecting sexuality and gender, including movements to see women take up a greater role in the Church.
The document explains in part that constantly developing technological innovations are seeing an increasing push for the integration of “body and machine, between neuronal and electronic circuits, which find their icon in the cyborg, favoring a technocratic approach to the body.”
It warns that…
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