Catholic Culture, Phil Lawler:
The story is appalling, yet I can’t help finding a comic aspect to the German bishops’ announcement that Bishop Ludger Schepers “will be the representative for queer pastoral care.”
On first reading that announcement, I assumed that the phrase “queer pastoral care” was an awkward computer translation. But no, the German original uses the term “Queer-Pastoral.” (Der Essener Weihbischof Ludger Schepers Beauftragter für Queer-Pastoral wird.) A news-service story helpfully informs us: “The English word queer refers to people who are not heterosexual or whose gender identity does not conform to social role models.” Continue reading here.
