(LifeSiteNews) — The Archdiocese of Salzburg, Austria, will again host a training event called “Queer People in Our Parishes” with two pro-LGBT activist groups.

According to kath.net, the Archdiocese of Salzburg is once again hosting the full-day workshop in early June. An event with the same name was held last May in the archdiocese.

The workshop, organized by the Rainbow Pastoral Platform in cooperation with the Homosexual Initiative (HOSI) Salzburg, will begin with “a personal approach to the topic” of LGBT-identifying individuals in Catholic parishes, followed by a joint clarification of terms, reflection on the “theological approach” and the “canonical framework,” and a discussion of “concrete options for action in pastoral practice.”

Last year, kath.net asked the Catholic archdiocese why it is holding a training event with HOSI Salzburg, even though the latter views and assesses homosexuality in a manner completely at odds with that of the Catholic Church. The archdiocese responded that  pastoral care always strives to “speak WITH people and not ABOUT them [emphasis in original].”

HOSI is a “recognized self-advocacy group for queer people in Salzburg” and therefore “an important point of contact.” Noting previous encounters, the archdiocese stated that the faith “represents an essential source of life for many queer people.”

The question by kath.net as to why people with same-sex attraction who follow the Church’s teachings and live celibately were not invited went unanswered.

The Catholic Church has always taught that homosexual acts are gravely sinful and contrary to nature. The Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) states the following:

Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that “homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered. They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved. (CCC 2357)

The Archdiocese of Salzburg is headed by Archbishop Franz Lackner, who also serves as the leader of the Austrian Bishops’ Conference. During the COVID-19 crisis, Lackner and the other Austrian bishops supported the Austrian government’s draconian general vaccine mandate. Lackner has also expressed support for Pope Francis’ heterodox document on same-sex “blessings,” Fiducia Supplicans.