SYNOD 2015: Preparations Begin with Key Questions About Collecting Data and the Goal of Church Ministry
Today, Bondings 2.0 ruminates on the key question of just why and what for the church exists and how it can respond to families today.
Robert Shine is the Associate Director of New Ways Ministry, where he has served since 2012. He is the Managing Editor for Bondings 2.0, a daily blog of LGBTQ Catholic news, opinion, and spirituality. Bob has degrees in theology from The Catholic University of America and the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry.
Today, Bondings 2.0 ruminates on the key question of just why and what for the church exists and how it can respond to families today.
Caitlin Ryan, who heads the Family Acceptance Project and is Catholic, reminds parents they do not have to choose between LGBT children and their faith in a piece for The Washington Post.
An Irish priest recently came out as gay, telling Catholics to vote for civil marriage equality in Ireland’s upcoming referendum on the issue.
Two parish events in recent months reveal the ways in which Catholics are expanding LGBT welcome and keeping conversations about family going in the Catholic Church.
Another bishop, Bishop Robert Lynch of St. Petersburg, has commented on the legalization of same-gender marriage…
Marriage equality is now law in Florida and Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami has wasted no time warning church workers they could lose their jobs for publicly supporting LGBT rights.
As 2015 begins and Pope Francis announces new cardinals, Bondings 2.0 wonders what sources of hope Catholic LGBT advocates look to for the coming year.
One question is occupying my mind on today’s Feast of the Epiphany: what does God’s rupture into humanity mean following a 17-year-old trans* girl’s suicide?
Knights of Columbus Council 934 reversed its decision to deny a same-gender couple use of their hall in the wake of public outcry against the Knights’ discrimination.
A Catholic university in Taiwan has removed posters for a planned speaker amid fears that students would become gay by attending, a decision made as that nation debates expanded LGBT equality.
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