In the Catholic Church LGBTIQ+ people continue to be stigmatized, persecuted, and rejected through the hate speech that the Church supports with its magisterial and doctrinal documents.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church states that same-sex relationships are "grave depravity and contrary to natural law." The declaration, Persona Humana, Declaration on Certain Questions Concerning Sexual Ethics, which cites the Catechism, defends in its number 8 that homosexual people are of two types: "those whose tendency comes from a false education, from a lack of normal sexual development, from habit, from bad example, or from other similar causes, and it is transitory or at least not incurable, and homosexuals who are definitively such because of some kind of innate instinct or a pathological constitution judged to be incurable". And it continues: "Their culpability will be judget with prudence. [...] those who suffer from this anomaly are personally responsible for it, [...] homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered and can in no case be approved of."

These are some of the expressions used by the Catholic Church to refer to homosexual people in its magisterial documents. Are we going to continue to allow ourselves to be disqualified and treated with these words? Don't you think it's time to do something?

I propose the development and constitution of this public request to ask Pope Francis to:

1) Promote and grow an LGBTIQ+ ministry in the Catholic Church so that we all have a place in it.

2) Explicitly support LGBTIQ+ Catholic individuals and groups that already exist and work for inclusion in the Church, even against the will of the local bishops and priests to which they minister.

3) Bring together theologians, authorities, academics, pastoralists, biblical scholars, translators, and pastoral agents committed to LGBTIQ+ pastoral care to guide them towards reflection and rethink the doctrinal, moral, and canonical position of the Church regarding sexuality, the role of women in society and the Church, and the various LGBTIQ+ realities.

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