Cardinal McElroy: Sex and sin need a new framework in the church

What would it take to build a radically inclusive church? That is
the question Cardinal Robert McElroy took up in a recent article
published by America. In it, he called on the church to
dismantle the “structures and cultures of exclusion” that alienate
some Catholics, including women, the poor, divorced-and-remarried
couples and L.G.B.T. Catholics. Most controversially, he argued
that people who do not conform to the church’s teaching on sex and
marriage should not be excluded from receiving Communion. The
article sparked a wide range of reactions online, and this week on
“Jesuitical,” Zac Davis and Ashley McKinless bring on Cardinal
McElroy on to the podcast to continue the conversation. They ask
the cardinal whether he is in favor of open Communion, if the
inclusion he’s advocating for requires a change in church teaching
and if he’s worried that disagreements over the place of women and
L.G.B.T. Catholics in the church could lead to schism. Cardinal
McElroy shares his view that “judgmentalism is the worst sin in the
Christian life,” and says his “pastoral vision here in San Diego is
to make—and it’s hard to accomplish this—to make L.G.B.T. people
feel equally welcome in the life of the church as everyone else.”
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