Nowadays, in a world where everyone can do and talk about everything, it also happens that a student wants to give theology lessons to the Pope. Undoubtedly a setback for the credibility of the educational institution, a progress for the Church: once upon a time those who dared for challenging the Holy Father he was excommunicated, now he ends up on social media.
However, yesterday during a meeting via Zoom organized by the Vatican with the University of Manila, a psychology student – we cannot say whether he is a seminarian or not – first reported having been bullied as a child, then asked Pope Francis to allow divorce in the Philippines and finally scolded him: “Stop using offensive language against the LGBTQAI community.”
Aside from the fact that among gay, bisexual, asexual, pansexual, gender fluid, gender queer, transgender, non-binary, polysexual, autosexual, polyamorous, lesbian, bigender and trigender, there are more identities than the LGBTQAI community which will soon be the entire alphabet of as many orders of nuns as there are in the Catholic Church. But we ask ourselves: exactly which community was the student referring to? The one that
at Gay pride parades does he offend and mock the symbols of the Christian religion with blasphemous gestures, images, disguises and slogans?
Ah. In the end the Pope did not respond to the student-theologian. He did well.
There is already too much presumptuousness around.