Manila – on balzme nights outside Manilina Church Baklaran, Gerald Concepcion, 32, and his devotees decorated the Virgin Mary with fragrant lilies and pink carnations. He added artificial white pigeons to the arrangement, saying that they were in honor of the late Pope Francis, who led the radical shift in the treatment of the Catholic Church of LGBTQ people.
“Papa Francis is a will that God is alive”, conception, pious Catholic that works as a street supplier, NBC News said. “He accepted everything, including our gay who were marginalized for a long time.”
Francis’ Death 21. April opened an eternal tension between the selection of a heir who represents a continuity or one that will bring a change, including the possible return to the recent church’s past Conservative positions on problems such as homosexuality.
Luis Antonio Tagle, Philippine Cardinal called “Asian Francis” for his emphasis in poor and marginalized people, appeared to be the conclusions composing 7. May to choose 7. May to choose from Francis.
If he was chosen as a pope, the taggle could handle some of the lessons from the Philippines. Although the largest Catholic people in Asia – about 80% of the Philippines is Catholic – and the third largest worldwide, it is also one of the more Friendly LGBTQ countries.
Many Gay Catholics, like a conception, remain active and visible members of the church, and he says the taggle offers the possibility of continuing Francis hugging gay Catolics into the next papacy.
“Being gay is wrong because it created us and God and all the things God created beautiful,” Concepcion added.
The Philippine Catholic Church became more open to Gay Catholics, including in the work in the position 2024. in which the Church recognized the “important role of the LGBTQ community in the life of the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines.”
And while the tags, known for avoiding provocative rhetorical and controversial issues, rarely talked publicly about homosexuality in their statements and homilias, in the past accused the church “in the past about gay and divorced people. Filipino Catholics say they felt supported by some of his actions and see them as potential signs of his community approach if he should be elected to the Pope.
Edwin Valles, former president of the courage of Philippines, LGBTQ organization under Archdiocese Manila, says that it is sure that the tagging will continue to accept the Gay community.
In 2014, Valles said that the head approached, and then the head of the Manila Archdiocese, to be assigned to the priest to be guided by their members, to request the tags.
“It’s a commitment to his part,” Valles said. “He invests the money where his mouth is. That’s how I like to think he will also do the same if he becomes a pope.”
Valles tells the story from the event in 2018. years, they both attended, when young faithful asked the cardinal on the status of LGBTQ Catolics.
“And his answer was something like Catholics, we are all distracted, we are all the children of God. Well, why is the label and distinguish? It just serves to separate or put people in the boxes,” Valles recalled the tag.
The man of the people
The Jesuit Educated Tagle, 67, was born in Filipino Father and the Philippine Chinese mother who were bankers, and the taggle grew up in a well-owned family. He was ordered as a priest in 1982. year between 24 years, and like Francis, he adopted a simple life.
Since 2001. until 2011, he served as a bishop of the diocese of Imus, the city of South Manila and his hometown. That, the tagged took the streets of walking, welcoming street suppliers and drivers of motorcycle taxi drivers. The inhabitants remembered to sit on a wooden bench outside the humble neighborhood of the Barber, the Bible in hand, his presence so regularly to earn Roland, nickname “, nickname”, nickname. “
The tag then became Manilian Archbishop in 2011. In 2012, Cardinal of the Caritas International, and was re-elected to the Catholic Church, and after Francis appointed the Chief of Dicastery for Evangelization, Missionary Hand of the Church.
He would return to Philippines, unannounced and without Fanfare, to check his sick parents, give hair, cuts Rolend and make a surprise to neighbors and relatives who would receive a blessing from the cardinal from the Vatican.
He ‘does not own a prophetic voice’
The taggle is highly appreciated in the Philippines, where it is widely understood as “warm, gentle, affordable, humble and sometimes funny,” as Francis, Noel Asionies, the University of Manila, the Catholic University of Manila.
As the upper priest, Tagle’s pastoral approach “reflects the leaders who want to serve and emphasize that it meets the needs of his herd,” Asionis said.
But similarities seemed to end there. Unlike Francis, who talked with strong, moral authority on secular issues such as exploit capitalism or injustice of war, Asionis said “missing or owning a prophetic voice.”
The tagging was criticized for inactivity to sexually Abuse by the priest, and his silence on external murders ordered former President of the Philippines Rodrigo Dutert, in the class of drugs left by tens of thousands, including children, dead. Dutrte opened openly and threatened the church, which in the Philippines historically stood against political power.
Noticed on the rough human rights, however, the tagging answered DTRTE opponents criticized as vague and vague.
“I don’t think the tag will be completely Francis 2.0. He often decides for political correctness, and seems not to be afraid, if he did not fear,” he said, “said Asiaes.
Good theologian but a miserable administrator
The taggle had a significant experience in the Vatican, but the observers say it is far from stellar space.
2022. Francis released the tag and the rest of the guidance of the Caritas International Team after the audit in the water in the water “actual shortcomings” in management and procedures.
What is the need for the Roman Curia Pope, which is a good administrator, said Charles Collins, managing the CRUX editor, the International Publication that focuses on the Catholic Church.
“The tagging is considered intelligent, good theology and a good communicator. But in many ways wasn’t a good administrator in some jobs he had in the Vatican,” Collins said. “He didn’t prove in that role.”
Francis shook things in the Vatican, and cardinals can look for someone who could provide stability to replace him.
“I think the conclusion will look at the European Cardinal to become a pope,” Collins said.
Three issues are expected to persecute the following Pope: Clerical Abuse, Poor Financing of Vatican and the current cultural war between Progressives and conservatives.
The taggle could be one of the popular papabilia, but Collins warned that in each concluding “there are always people who are more in the media than among cardinals.”
“Pope from Asia or Africa is good news, but this does not reflect the views of cardinal electric power voters.”
Camille Elemia reported from Manila and Imus, Philippines.
2025-05-04 12:14:00
