Philadelphia
Keep ‘LGBTQ’ out of Church documents, says archbishop
Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia has told the youth synod that “LGBTQ” should be avoided in official Church documents. The archbishop – one of five US bishops at the synod – said that the Church “doesn’t categorise people” by their “sexual appetites”. As a result, he said, “ ‘LGBTQ’ and similar language should not be used in Church documents”. The Instrumentum Laboris, the working document for the synod, includes the acronym, saying that “some LGBT youths … wish to benefit from greater closeness” with the Church. Archbishop Chaput expressed concern that the document did not explain why Catholic teaching about sexuality was “ennobling”.
