A recent Filings article (link from SI is here: https://sharperiron.org/filings/022222/41022) discusses how a “high up” cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church (who is good friends with the pope) is suggesting that the church is wrong to condemn LGBTQ practices.
So, in your opinion, do you think the RCC will cave into the culture on this issue? And if so, when?
Poll Results
Will the Catholic Church cave in to the LGBTQ agenda?
Yes, within a decade. Votes: 5
Yes, but in more than a decade. Votes: 0
Partly. Votes: 1
Unsure Votes: 5
No, at least not in the next twenty years. Votes: 2
Other Votes: 0
It will not officially, but will accommodate via loopholes. Votes: 8
Discussion
NewWeird
For a church that never changes, the Catholics sure seem to be in a bunch of change these days. And I can say that some of it is even good—about a decade back, I noticed that a local Catholic church was using the “Alpha” Bible study course. Hey, they still have the Council of Trent, but if they’re at least encouraging their members to read Scripture, that’s a major step towards Sola Scriptura.
Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.
NewUnderstanding RCC
It’s hard for people who have grown up in independent churches to understand the Roman Catholic Church. It has long been a large tent. I read a historical novel recently that I think help fill in some gaps for me. A character in the novel—a Franciscan monk—observes that the church only deems heretical what it can’t control. If it’s able to gain control of whatever the dissenting group of the week (more like “of the decade”) is, they’ll just become another of the many, many orders and subgroups that all interact under the RCC umbrella.
Anyway, will there be groups, possibly even a pope or two, who are much more inclined to emphasize compassion toward lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, etc., people? Sure. Will “this is not sin” become official RCC doctrine? I really don’t see that happening in my lifetime, if ever.
Keep in mind that the question of sin isn’t really being debated to a significant degree in RCC at all. It’s all about how to treat people who identify as LGBTQ etc. … which is not the same question.
Views expressed are always my own and not my employer's, my church's, my family's, my neighbors', or my pets'. The house plants have authorized me to speak for them, however, and they always agree with me.