section_path: Notable views/Sexuality
section_name: Sexuality
paragraph_text: Sexuality
  
  In a March 2015 interview, he said the Catholic Church needed to develop a new language for addressing gay people, unwed mothers, and divorced and remarried Catholics because "what constituted in the past an acceptable way of showing mercy" changes and needs to be re-imagined. Tagle said:
  
  he harsh words that were used in the past to refer to gays and divorced and separated people, the unwed mothers etc., in the past they were quite severe. Many people who belonged to those groups were branded and that led to their isolation from the wider society.... But we are glad to see and hear shifts in that.... or the Catholic Church, there is a pastoral approach which happens in counselling, in the sacrament of reconciliation where individual persons and individual cases are taken uniquely or individually so that a help, a pastoral response, could be given adequately to the person.
  
  In the same interview, Tagle said that "Every situation for those who are divorced and remarried is quite unique. To have a general rule might be counterproductive in the end.... We cannot give one formula for all." In 2017, Tagle led the Lazarus Project, a social media campaign for Easter which called for greater acceptance of people traditionally judged such as sex workers, the homeless, and LGBTQ people in Catholic churches using the hashtag #ResurrectLove.
  
  In a March 2015 interview, he said the Catholic Church needed to develop a new language for addressing gay people, unwed mothers, and divorced and remarried Catholics because "what constituted in the past an acceptable way of showing mercy" changes and needs to be re-imagined. Tagle said:
  
  he harsh words that were used in the past to refer to gays and divorced and separated people, the unwed mothers etc., in the past they were quite severe. Many people who belonged to those groups were branded and that led to their isolation from the wider society.... But we are glad to see and hear shifts in that.... or the Catholic Church, there is a pastoral approach which happens in counselling, in the sacrament of reconciliation where individual persons and individual cases are taken uniquely or individually so that a help, a pastoral response, could be given adequately to the person.
  
  In the same interview, Tagle said that "Every situation for those who are divorced and remarried is quite unique. To have a general rule might be counterproductive in the end.... We cannot give one formula for all." In 2017, Tagle led the Lazarus Project, a social media campaign for Easter which called for greater acceptance of people traditionally judged such as sex workers, the homeless, and LGBTQ people in Catholic churches using the hashtag #ResurrectLove.