Archbishop Scicluna Disseminates LGBT Pastoral Letter

Msgr. Charles J. Scicluna, secretary of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, has recently published a pastoral text centered on the spiritual accompaniment of people whom he identifies under the acronym LGBT. The article , which reflects on God’s loving presence in everyday life and has been widely disseminated on social media by Fr. James Martin, highlights the ambiguity with which many ecclesiastical leaders have been addressing this topic from perspectives alien to Christian anthropology and the constant teaching of the Church.
 

 
It is deeply concerning that a Secretary of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith—an institution charged with safeguarding the integrity of the revealed deposit—adopts and disseminates a flawed conceptual framework for thinking about the relationship between the person, the Church, and God. We are not faced with a mere problem of pastoral language or spiritual emphasis, but with theological presuppositions that gravely condition the understanding of the Catholic faith.

The first flawed premise is the identification of concrete persons under an ideological acronym. The Church has never defined anyone by a sociopolitical, psychological, or cultural category, but by their condition as creatures made in the image of God, called to communion with Him and to holiness.

Adopting this language is not neutral. It presupposes accepting an anthropology that fragments the person and turns an inclination into a defining trait. The Church accompanies persons, not ideological identities. When it adopts that vocabulary without nuance, it runs the risk of legitimizing a conceptual framework that does not arise from the Gospel, but from a specific cultural construction.

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