Your Choices for the Top Ten WORST Catholic LGBTQ News Events of 2021
Here’s the list of the ten Catholic LGBTQ developments of the past year that we’d rather not have experienced.
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.
Here’s the list of the ten Catholic LGBTQ developments of the past year that we’d rather not have experienced.
What did YOU think of 2021’s Catholic LGBTQ news events? You have an opportunity to state your opinion by completing our annual survey of the “Worst & Best Catholic LGBTQ News Events” of the past year.
A Christmas meditation.
Apologies are powerful in their ability to build bridges of reconciliation and justice.
In 1971, Sister Jeannine Gramick, New Ways Ministry’s co-founder, began ministry with LGBTQ people. She was prompted by a young gay man’s question: “What is your church doing for people like me?”
It’s Giving Tuesday, the annual day during the pre-Christmas shopping season set aside to encourage…
Let’s celebrate today!
This list of gratitudes could go on forever!
A Catholic university in Indiana has opened an LGBTQ center as part of its larger efforts to support diverse students.
To find an answer to the question “Was Cardinal Newman gay?” I think may best be answered by rephrasing the question to “Was Cardinal Newman straight?”
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