At Catholic Colleges' Commencements: Tutu, Yes; Kennedy, No
Commencement speaker controversies at two Catholic campuses on opposite sides of the country have sparked…
Francis DeBernardo has ministered at New Ways Ministry since 1992, first as a volunteer, and then as a staff member since 1994. He has served as Executive Director since 1996. He has conducted programs on LGBT issues and Catholicism in parishes, dioceses, retreat houses, colleges, and religious communities throughout the United States. He authored Marriage Equality: A Positive Catholic Approach. He is the editor and a contributor to Bondings 2.0, a daily blog of news and opinion covering Catholic LGBT topics. His articles have appeared in The National Catholic Reporter, Commonweal, The Advocate, and The American Catholic. He was the keynote speaker at the conference on religion and LGBT issues at the first World Pride event in Rome, Italy, in 2000, and a featured speaker at the interfaith conference at World Pride in London, England in 2012.
Commencement speaker controversies at two Catholic campuses on opposite sides of the country have sparked…
A gay Catholic alumnus of a Catholic high school in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, has been…
In two separate stories, Catholics in Ontario, Canada, are speaking out for the adoption of…
The University of Notre Dame has announced that it will not add sexual orientation to…
Catholics are playing a major role in the marriage equality debate in Minnesota, where this…
New Ways Ministry and many Catholic theologians, leaders, organizations, and individuals have long called on…
In two of the biggest Catholic LGBT news stories in the nation over the past…
The initial news cycle centered on the Vatican’s attempted suppression of the Leadership Conference of…
Commentary on the Vatican’s attempt to control the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) continues…
The attempt this week by the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF)…
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