Cardinal of Hong Kong: We must perceive to the LGBTQ's voices. It is the work of the Synod Church

The Synod Church has a work to perceive to the voice of everyone who wants to be in it, including LGBTQ environments. The Hong Kong Cardinal is very pleased with his own participation in a gathering with representatives of this group he had late held in Rome.

Cardinal Stephen Chow S.J., Bishop of Hong Kong, is very pleased to have attended a gathering with representatives of the LGBT community, which he late held in Rome. The cardinal attended a gathering organized by the American prognostic organization Outreach; a thing took place in the General Curia building of the Society of Jesus in Rome during the Synod on Synodality.

According to PCh24.pl, the British lesbian female surviving in a formal relation with a woman, an African LGBT activist calling for her identity to be hidden from her parents or a man from Malta, who claims to be bisexual and surviving in a relation with another man. Purplet led the prayer beginning the meeting.

Now Cardinal Stephen Chow described his impressions from the gathering on the website of the Outreach organization.

He began with a very emotional appeal to perceive synodically to all people, including those who are part of the LGBTQ community. As he emphasized, listening to specified a voice is “mandatory” for the Synod Church.

"Results, ignorance, fear and hatred reflect our reluctance to engage in authentic listening, especially to the voice of those who are thought to be in mistake or make us profoundly concerned," he assessed critically reluctant to be synodistic.

The Cardinal stated that he could ignore the invitation to the LGBTQ meeting, considering that he knew what these people would say anyway; they should quit their sinful lives, so there is no point in talking to them. But he decided to do otherwise. "I am glad that I was at a gathering and even led a prayer to begin," he wrote.

The Chinese purple then quoted a series of emotional statements by rainbow panelists who broadcast a attachment to being in the Church. He judged it to be a “simple, individual and sincere message” and felt that hope sounded in their voice.

“At the end of the meeting, I found it truly good. She built a bond between these sisters and brothers and us, listening from their Church. The bond should be an crucial consequence of synodity, it is essential to decision forward with the healing and reconciliation process between us" - he pointed out.

“Let us perceive and strengthen those who want to belong to our Church. 1 can hope that by travelling with each another as companions, we will find the strength to lead a better life than what we are presently living," he concluded.

Cardinal Stephen Chow was born in 1959 in Hong Kong. He went to the United States for college, studying psychology and doctrine in Minnesota. He joined the Society of Jesus in 1984. He later educated in Dublin and Chicago, among others.

In 2021, he became Bishop of Hong Kong. He initially rejected the nomination; he only accepted it erstwhile he received Francis' individual letter request.

In 2023 Francis elevated him to Cardinal's dignity.

Source: outreach. faith

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