An Irish Catholic Church reform organization has launched a global petition asking top Church leaders in that country to help change the way Catholic teaching refers to LGBTQI people.
We Are Church Ireland announced the petition last week. It already has gained nearly 1,800 signatures. The petition opposed the use of terms like “intrinsically evil” and “objectively disordered” in church teaching, and appealed to Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin and papal nuncio Archbishop Jude Thaddeus Okolo to facilitate such change. The petition read, in part: