In recent weeks, both Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich and Drachma invited the Church to rethink its teaching on homosexuality. Hollerich, president of COMECE, the organisation of bishops of EU member states and the relator general of the Synod of Bishops, did so in an interview with the Catholic News Agency. Drachma, a local organisation for parents of gay children, in a recently published book – Naqqaxtek fuq il-pali ta’ jdejja – argues that the Bible cannot be used to condemn homosexuality. Hollerich said that he considered the Church’s teaching that same-gender relationships are sinful, to be wrong. “I believe that the sociological-scientific foundation of this teaching is no longer correct,” Hollerich said. Homosexuality was once considered by medical professionals as a perversion. Nowadays, it is considered to be another normal way of celebrating sex. Hollerich explained his position further: “What was condemned in the past was sodomy. At that time, it was thought that the whole child was contained in the sperm of the man and that thinking was simply transferred to homosexual men. But there is no homosexuality in the New Testament. There is only the mention of homosexual...