"LGBTIQ+ persons must have free access to all pastoral vocations."ĭemanding blessings for same-sex couples, #OutInChurch calls for the Church to "express in its rites and celebrations the fact that LGBTIQ+ persons, whether living alone or in relationship, are blessed by God and that their love bears manifold fruits." "Our identities include lesbian, gay, bi, trans, inter, queer and non-binary," the rebels declare in a manifesto published Monday. In what is being billed as the biggest revolt of pansexual Catholics so far, 125 priests, nuns, religious, catechists, administrators, church musicians, religion teachers, pastoral workers and medics are staging a doctrinal insurgency under the banner #OutInChurch. Lesbian nuns Monika Schmelter (left) and Marie Kortenbusch MÖNCHENGLADBACH, Germany ( ) - Scores of LGBTIQ+ clergy and employees of the German Catholic Church are defying magisterial teaching on homosexuality, insisting that "such statements are no longer acceptable or even debatable" following new insights in theology and science.
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