Voice of chaste same-sex attracted Catholics ‘absent’ from Synod: head of Courage

Father Paul Check, executive director of Courage International

The head of the international Courage apostolate says that the voice of persons who have struggled with same-sex attraction but who now practice chastity was missing from last month’s Extraordinary Synod on the Family in Rome.

Courage International is a Vatican-approved apostolate ministering to people with same-sex attraction by helping them to live chaste, God-centered lives.

“That voice was absent from the Synod,” Father Paul Check, the organization’s executive director, said in a televised interview with EWTN October 29. “That voice has not yet been heard.”

He said members of Courage have experienced “anxiety and unsteadiness” over the Synod seeming to come close to compromising on Catholic sexual moral teaching regarding homosexuality.

“They look to the Church, they look to Rome for that strength, that wisdom, that charity, that clarity that says, here is the path, persevere, stay on that path.”  (more...)

Voice of chaste same-sex attracted Catholics ‘absent’ from Synod: head of Courage