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“The more I began to look on the horizon for people that looked and sounded like Jesus, frankly, the more I was pulled towards a … progressive, inclusive version of Christian faith,” said Robertson, a Protestant pastor and author.

Ivereigh speaks about discussions on LGBTQ inclusion at the Synod, the process of drafting the final Synod report and what Pope Francis hopes to achieve through global dialogue.

In July, Pope Francis personally appointed Outreach editor James Martin, S.J., to the Synod on Synodality, a two-part worldwide gathering in Rome attended by more than 360 prelates, clergy members and lay people.

Colleen Dulle, co-host of America Media’s “Inside the Vatican” podcast, talks with Outreach about secrecy at the Synod, criticism from some U.S. prelates and Pope Francis’s emphasis on dialogue and process.

In his keynote address at this year’s Outreach conference, Cruz, a gay Catholic and valued confidant of Pope Francis, spoke of the pontiff’s closeness to LGBTQ people. Recorded at the Church of Saint Paul the Apostle in New York City.

“I send my best regards to the members of the meeting at Fordham University,” wrote the Holy Father.

Outreach asked the Holy Father three questions, in Spanish, and received a written response from him, to clarify his comments on the decriminalization of homosexuality.

Christ stands in the center of Club Q, with all his brothers and sisters and siblings.