Roman Catholic Bishops in the USA will debte a new document on Pastoral Guidelines for ‘Ministry to Persons with Homosexual Inclination’ when they meet next month. Much of it is the usual ‘love the sinner hate the sin’ type of stuff but there are new challenges for them to face including a policy affirming the baptism of adopted children of lesbians and gay men.

No such pastoral letter exists in Ireland. There have been discussions and hints about pastoral outreach to lesbians and gay men from the Dublin Diocese but I have not heard if anything came from these in the past few years. Anyone else heard anything?