On the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons

The document On the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons, also known by its opening words in Latin (Homosexualitatis problema) or as the "Halloween Letter", was a pastoral letter addressed to the world's Catholic Bishops by the Catholic Church's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) which was widely seen as hostile to same-sex relationships and condescending and damaging to those inside and outside the church who identified as LGBT. It was published in Rome on 1 October 1986; its primary authors, on behalf of the CDF, were the conservative Cardinal Prefect, Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) and CDF Secretary, Archbishop Alberto Bovone. == Content == The letter gave instructions on how the clergy should deal with and respond to lesbian, gay, and bisexual people.

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