By: Andrew Davis, Nancy Mace
A Vatican official joined Maltese LGBTQ+ Catholics and allies to celebrate 20 years of inclusive ministry in the country, per New Ways Ministry. Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta joined Drachma LGBTI+ for Mass in mid-September, telling attendees, ”We accept each other as siblings; and we welcome each other as a precious gift.” Scicluna, who is also an adjunct secretary at the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, preached about the centrality of reconciliation—with God, with oneself, and with others. He ended by stating that God’s mercy “can radically change us and give us the power to reach that maturity in the relationships between us and in our lives that we pass from infatuation to love; that instead of exploitation there is true friendship.”