Gay Catholics' Quest continues BY CECILIA BROMLEYMARTIN BISHOP DAVID Konstant

of Leeds told Britain's gay and lesbian Catholics last week end: "The whole Church must listen to you and you must listen to the Church otherwise there is no dialogue and that is so important."
The Bishop was speaking during a Mass to celebrate the end of the 15th annual conference of Quest, the Catholic society providing support of homosexual people in Britain.
Entitled "Quest 2000 Gay men and lesbians into the next millennium", the conference aimed to continue a review started earlier this year, collecting information about its members and their opinions on matters concerning homosexual orientation in relation to the Catholic faith. The guest speaker was Bishop Derek Rawcliffe, of the Episcopal Church of Scotland, while the keynote speaker, the author and broadcaster Michael Walsh, spoke in his address of the changes in Catholic teachings.
"It is one of the conventional attitudes to Roman Catholicism that its belief system, and its moral teachings, do not change," he told the 85 members and the many supporters attending the conference.
"Yet any close examination of the Church's doctrine on either faith or morals demonstrates that they have changed, and that they continue to change," said Mr' Walsh.
As an example, Mr Walsh referred to the alterations in Catholic teaching on original sin evident in the New Cate
chism of the Catholic Church. Jimmy Donnelly, elected the new chair of Quest during the conference, said in his concluding address: "As we enter the next millennium, the development of doctrine about sexual morality can scarcely fail to be powerfully influenced by the recognition and acceptance of homosexuality as a normal minority variant of human sexuality.
"It is in this respect that one rightly speaks of a prophetic role given to gay men and lesbians in the Christian community."
He continued: "As Christian and gay, witnessing to what we know is good and true about ourselves, we are here as a vital part of God's created design for the edification, right-ordering and full maturity of all Christ's faithful people."