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For Deacon Ray Dever and his family, supporting a transgender family member is deeply consonant with their Catholic faith.
Deacon Ray Dever, who is the father of a transgender daughter and a bisexual daughter, and who has written eloquently here on Bondings 2.0 about his special family and ministerial roles, is currently serving liturgically at the closing Mass of of the Pastoral Congress portion of the World Meeting of Families in Dublin.
Deacon Ray Dever is a devout Catholic, a permanent deacon, a husband, and above all, a dad to three daughters. In a recent US Catholic article, he writes on his experience as both a Catholic deacon and a proud dad to a transgender daughter.
How are transgender and nonbinary Catholics, their families, pastoral ministers, and allies responding to “Dignitas Infinita,” the Vatican document on human dignity released Monday that condemns “gender theory” and “sex change”?
“On this Holy Family Sunday as we look upon those sparkling manger scenes in our homes and churches, we need to recall that this family from 2,000 years ago was also marginalized in many ways.”
LGBTQ+ Catholics and supporters are celebrating a new set of guidelines that aims to treat LGBTQ+ individuals with “welcome, love, and respect.”
A Catholic sister long involved in transgender ministry has said a bishop made misleading claims about communication between them as the U.S. bishops discussed potentially ban gender-affirming care in Catholic hospitals.
Far too many individuals and groups of people, like LGBTQ+ folks, do not experience church as a place where that foundational Last Supper example that Jesus calls us to follow is practiced.
America recently invited two Catholic theologians back to continue a conversation about gender identity, which they began in the same publication late last year.
America recently published a conversation between two theologians who were looking back, three years later, at the Vatican’s then-Congregation for Catholic Education’s (CCE) 2019 instruction “‘Male and Female He Created Them’: Towards a Path of Dialogue on the Question of Gender Theory in Education.”