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Archdiocese of Salzburg Defends Hosting ‘Queer’ Training Day

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The Archdiocese of Salzburg, Austria, will again host a training event called “Queer People in Our Parishes” with two pro-LGBT activist groups.

According to kath.net, the Archdiocese of Salzburg is once again hosting the full-day workshop in early June. An event with the same name was held last May in the archdiocese.

The workshop, organized by the Rainbow Pastoral Platform in cooperation with the Homosexual Initiative (HOSI) Salzburg, will begin with “a personal approach to the topic” of LGBT-identifying individuals in Catholic parishes, followed by a joint clarification of terms, reflection on the “theological approach” and the “canonical framework,” and a discussion of “concrete options for action in pastoral practice.”

Last year, kath.net asked the Catholic archdiocese why it is holding a training event with HOSI Salzburg, even though the latter views and assesses homosexuality in a manner completely at odds with that of the Catholic Church. The archdiocese responded that pastoral care always strives to “speak WITH people and not ABOUT them [emphasis in original].”

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