Madrid, June 7 (EFE).- Collectives of women and the LGTBI+ community have attended the mass that Pope Leo
“We want a Church of equals, we do not want a Church of powerful people,” Teresa Casillas, a member of the Women’s Revolt in the Church, claimed in statements to EFE.
More than twenty women members of this movement have come with umbrellas, t-shirts and purple scarves to the mass in Plaza de Colón, another of the access points to the Eucharist, where they have placed a purple banner on the asphalt that reads ‘Until equality becomes custom’.
Casillas has stressed that Jesus “did not found a Church”, but rather “experienced a community of equals”, while regretting that the Pope during the celebration of the Eucharist is only surrounded by men “showing his power”, when many women also feel the priestly vocation.
Juani also belongs to this movement and to the association Christians of the LGTBI+ Christian Community of Madrid (Crishmhom), which demand “the equality of all people, of the entire human race, and as the Pope says, of all humanity.”
“It is very important that we continue working for the equality of women in the Church and for the inclusion of all groups within it,” he stressed, while demanding that the institution must be “inclusive”, with men and women and all types of groups.
Carrying a rainbow umbrella, Mónica Arca, a member of Crismhom, has demanded a Church that also recognizes the collective “as a marriage, as a human reality.”
“God has created us, he loves us, he loves us and we can be believers and be LGBTI+ and express our love as a couple, not only in chastity,” he highlighted Arca, who reported that she spent more than 20 years as a missionary in Latin America, but left the Christian community “for life reasons” that have nothing to do with her sexual orientation, although she later married a woman.
“I went from religious missionary life to lay life,” he explained, and stressed that he celebrated the pope’s visit from “faith” but also “claiming.”
And he has taken up yesterday’s words from the pontiff in which he stated that “we must be human” because Jesus was also human and, therefore, he has demanded that the Church recognize its community because the LGTBI+ reality “is also human.”
“We are all equal. God loves us without distinction, he created us as we are, we feel, we live and we love, although it may seem different from what is normative,” declared Luis Enrique, a Colombian by origin who resides in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria although he lived for a time in the capital, and has come from there at dawn to be able to be at the celebration of Corpus Christi with the Holy Father.
He also belongs to Crismhom and the Pastoral Association of Sexual Diversity in the Canary Islands (Padis Canarias), and has asked for “the total inclusion” of the LGTBI+ group “as first-class Christians like all the baptized.”
“With the same rank that Jesus left us in baptism, so that we can enjoy, receive and live the sacraments in the Christian life like any other, because we are all equal,” stressed Luis Enrique, who wears a t-shirt that says ‘I am a gay Christian’. EFE
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