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"Speakers at Vatican-run youth meeting call for women’s ordination, LGBT inclusion"
"A Vatican-sponsored meeting for young Catholics in Rome in June featured speakers who called for 'deaconesses,' the administration of sacraments by women, 'revolution', 'LGBT' inclusion, and 'structural change.'
Young Catholics at the event loudly applauded when such calls were made while calls for missionary discipleship were met with little enthusiasm.
The International Youth Forum, consisting of almost 250 young people from around the world, gathered between June 19 and 22 to discuss Pope Francis’ post-conciliar exhortation 'Christus Vivit.' The pontiff published the document on April 2, 2019 following the October 2018 Synod of Bishops on Young People, the Faith, and Vocational Discernment. Some of the young people at the June Forum were auditors at the October Synod. The event was organized by the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life.
The general theme of the Forum was: 'Young people in action in a synodal Church.'
LifeSiteNews spoke to two participants, a young man and a young woman, on the condition of anonymity, not only for their sake, but for the sake of their sponsoring bishops. The first Forum participant told LifeSiteNews of feeling uneasy as a progressive agenda was put forward by numerous speakers while participants cheered.
'The reaction to different open-floor comments and speakers quickly developed a pattern of being loud and supportive of those demanding structural change and diversity, ‘revolution’ or greater support for social issues such as the environment...'the young woman told LifeSiteNews.
LifeSiteNews’ known and trusted source was particularly troubled by the enthusiastic reception of Austrian theology student Eva Wimmer’s demand for women’s ordination.
'During the first panel we heard from a handful of youth synod auditors talking about their experience of the synod process. During this, there was a call that in ten years time it would be ‘normal for women to be deaconesses and administering the sacraments’... the female source said.
Wimmer also said, according to the source, that she dreamed of a Church in which women do not merely catechize for baptism but baptize, and do not merely teach marriage preparation but perform marriages and indicated that she was for greater inclusion of 'LGBT' people in the Church...
Cardinal Kevin Farrell, who is the Prefect of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life, and Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops, gave speeches welcoming the participants to the event. Both also celebrated Mass for the gathering."
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