To support the LGBTQ community, veteran fashion designer Wendell Rodricks has decided to set up a helpline that will bring the community closer to the Church. He met Cardinal Oswald Gracias on Wednesday to seek his approval for the initiative.

Despite the Supreme Court's recent landmark judgment decriminalising homosexuality, Rodricks said that it bothered him to see the LGBTQ community distancing itself from the church. "The general attitude is to see members of the community as sinners and condemn them. But, the new pope is compassionate and we thus wanted to have a social media presence to help members of the community who want to be closer to the church," said Rodricks.