Vatican official apologizes for taking down LGBTQ resource

By NICOLE WINFIELD
Associated Press

ROME (AP) — A leading Catholic LGBTQ advocacy group is praising a Vatican official for apologizing for the pain caused when he yanked a reference to the group on the Vatican website. The Vatican’s General Secretariat for the Synod of Bishops, which is organizing a two-year consultation of rank-and-file Catholics ahead of a 2023 meeting of bishops at the Vatican, restored the reference to New Ways Ministry on the website over the weekend. Its communications director apologized to New Ways Ministry in a statement. The Synod had originally included a reference to a webinar video made by New Ways Ministry in its “Resources” page directing people to sources of information about the Synod consultation process.