Not any more the Cardinals and Bishops are thumbing their noses at him.
On LGBTQ+ Rights, Ghana’s Bishops Choose to Ignore Pope
The Advocate via Yahoo
By Graeme Reid
December 6, 2021
Pope Francis has repeatedly made news this fall, calling for a Catholic Church that is more welcoming toward LGBTQ+ people. In October, a newly released documentary on the Pope’s life aired earlier comments in support of same-sex civil unions. During a September visit to Hungary and Slovakia, the Pope commented on the need for the Church to “do pastoral work” with same-sex couples. At a press conference a few days later, he remarked on the prospect of same-sex civil unions, saying that “if a homosexual couple wants to lead a life together, the State has the possibility to give them safety, stability, inheritance.”
These comments have led some Catholic observers to praise the Pope’s “pastoral approach to L.G.B.T. people.” This approach not only respects LGBTQ+ people as members of society but calls on governments to provide them basic legal protections.
That was good news for us but…
Just a few days after the Pope’s visit to Hungary and Slovakia, the Ghanaian Catholic Bishops Conference publicly expressed its support for a draconian bill making its way through parliament — The Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill 2021 — and stated that “homosexual practices [should be made] illegal in Ghana.”
NPR
reported…
Among those in opposition [To the Equality Act] are the National Association of Evangelicals, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Seventh-day Adventist Church and the Coalition for Jewish Values, representing Orthodox rabbis. Together, the groups represent a broad swath of U.S. religious denominations.
So much for the Pope to be the leader of the Catholic Church.
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