Once again, Catholics are central in U.S. court cases which could be detrimental to LGBTQ+ people and their rights. Two parents have appealed to the country’s Supreme Court to defend what they claim is a right to misgender their transgender child.
While much of the commentary about Fiducia Supplicans has been from church leaders, theologians, and pastoral ministers, there have been fewer stories from ordinary people about what the declaration means to them. The New York Times carried one of these stories, which speaks the impact blessings could have not just for couples, but for LGBTQ+ acceptance in families more broadly.
Today’s post features insights from theologians collected over the preceding weeks about “Fiducia Supplicans.”
A Catholic publication has included a transgender woman and other LGBTQ+ advocates in an essay about whether church leaders are actually attentive to issues of gender, in the Synod on Synodality and otherwise.
More than two months after Fiducia Supplicans was released, the debate over blessings persists—in some cases, pastoral workers are taking it to heart and offering blessings. In other cases, bishops are continuing their resistance. Today’s post includes those news stories and other commentaries on the topic.
Theologians in Germany have called revisions to the process by which teaching licenses are granted, prompted in part by an LGBTQ-related dispute and a desire to end sexuality-based discrimination.
A top U.S. cardinal has said opposition to Fiducia Supplicans, the Vatican declaration allowing blessings for…
Today’s post includes story about a Maltese Catholic LGBTQ+ group’s new book, Greek bishops’ opposition to marriage equality, and a gathering of transgender-negative bishops in Prague.
Mary, the mother of God, is a “gender-bending, queer prophetess who defied the gender conventions of her time,” writes one LGBTQ+ Catholic in an essay examining how Mary helped the author experience queer joy.
Regular readers of Bondings 2.0 will know that since December, the debate over Fiducia Supplicans and blessings for queer couples has dominated Catholic LGBTQ+ news—indeed, it is hard to keep up! Today’s post plays a bit of catch up with positive stories from the last few months.