“Our ministerial approach should begin with the understanding that families are not problems to solve. Rather, they are opportunities for the church to discern with the aid of the Spirit how God is active in our time and what God is calling us to do here and now.”
The Catholic Church hierarchy in the Central American nation of Belize has withdrawn its appeal of a 2016 judicial decision which struck down the former British colony’s anti-sodomy law.
Throughout February, conservative religious and secular websites have been fuming mad about a very commonsense development at the University of Dayton, an Ohio Catholic school run by the Marianist Brothers.
The head of the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Laity, Family, and Life has finally spoken out as to why he was not allowing an international Catholic woman’s conference to be hosted by the Vatican.
What is remarkable about this historic development is that it shows that Catholic leaders can find creative ways to live with pro-LGBT equality initiatives. Indeed, they can even negotiate with political leaders to get past impasses.
Germany’s Cardinal Reinhard Marx said definitively that he does not support blessing ceremonies for lesbian and gay couples, ending several weeks of speculation based on comments he made in an interview which originally appeared to support such rituals.
The results of Bondings 2.0’s readership survey on whether attitudes and acceptance of LGBTQ people have increased or decreased in the Catholic Church over the past four years are in!
In early December 2017, a representative from the Archdiocese of Edmonton called me in for an investigation. Also present at the meeting was my pastor. I was investigated for two things: (1) my involvement with the formation of an LGBTQ Catholic prayer and support group called CORE and (2) the allegation that I am have a male partner and a daughter.
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Catholic agencies in Ireland that provide counselling to married couples could lose their government funding if they continue to refuse to provide service to legally married gay and lesbian couples.