GCN hits the streets just a day before the Pope arrives in Ireland for the World Meeting of Families (WMOF), the theme of which “all are welcome” needs to be changed to “all are welcome, except for some”. Those ‘some’ are Catholic LGBT+ organisations who had their applications for paid-for exhibition stands at the event ignored until the last minute, and then were told that there’s not enough space for them. At exactly the same time as they got the official rejection, other organisations were being off ered stands, free of charge, which suggests there was actually a surfeit of space.
The way the Global Network of Rainbow Catholics (GNRC) and We Are Church (which promotes same-sex marriage) were treated by the organisers of WMOF is indicative of a Church which is reluctant to even broach the complexities of its relationship to gay Catholics, never mind question or revise its teaching that homosexual people are objectively disordered and homosexual acts are intrinsically immoral and contrary to the natural law.