Demonstrators take part in a protest for gay rights in late February outside Italy's Milan Cathedral. The Italian government's approval of a controversial bill that grants legal recognition to non-married heterosexual and homosexual couples is a defeat for democracy and family life, an Italian bishop said. (CNS photo/Matteo Bazzi, EPA) See CIVIL-UNION-FORTE May 12, 2016.
The Synod’s decision to drop the acronym LGBT from its final document represents a missed opportunity for the Church; a chance to build bridges with young gay people, to demonstrate a keenness to love and listen, that was…
