Bondings 2.0

a daily blog of Catholic LGBTQ news, opinion, and spirituality

How Can the Catholic Community Support LGBT Homeless Youth?

September 19, 2014/6 Comments/in Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Schools & Youth /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Yesterday, Bondings 2.0 highlighted the religious rejection that too often causes LGBT youth to experience homelessness,... Read More

Obama's Executive Order Won't Deter Catholic Organizations That Reject Discrimination

July 29, 2014/2 Comments/in Employment Issues, Politics & Human Rights /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

President Obama’s executive order banning LGBT discrimination by federal contractors has received generally positive reactions... Read More

Catholics React to Obama Signing LGBT Executive Order

July 22, 2014/8 Comments/in Employment Issues, Politics & Human Rights /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

President Barack Obama signed an executive order yesterday prohibiting employment discrimination on the basis of sexual... Read More

Religious Leaders, Including Catholics, Call on Obama to Oppose Religious Exemption in Upcoming Executive Order

July 9, 2014/1 Comment/in Employment Issues, Politics & Human Rights /by Francis DeBernardo, Editor

President Barack Obama’s expected executive order barring federal contractors from employment discrimination based on sexual... Read More

Religious Leaders Want Right to Discriminate in Obama's LGBT Executive Order

July 6, 2014/6 Comments/in Employment Issues, Hierarchy, Politics & Human Rights, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Prominent Catholics have teamed with other religious leaders in calling on President Barack Obama to... Read More

Catholic Bishops and U.S. Evangelicals Make Strange Bedfellows

May 25, 2014/2 Comments/in Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, Statistics /by Francis DeBernardo, Editor

One of the more unusual political alliances that has developed over the past two decades... Read More

Overemphasizing Pope Harms the Church, Says Commonweal Editor

March 31, 2014/0 Comments/in Theology & Church Teaching, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Pope Francis’ widespread popularity seems to be good news for the Catholic Church, gained in... Read More

Former Vice President Joe Biden Calls for Greater Global LGBT Solidarity

May 18, 2017/0 Comments/in Anti-LGBTQ Criminalization, Politics & Human Rights, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Marking yesterday’s International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia, former Vice President Joe Biden called... Read More

Former VP Joe Biden Criticizes Anti-Trans Bathroom Law Focus

March 20, 2017/0 Comments/in Gender Identity, Politics & Human Rights, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Former Vice President Joe Biden has made an appeal for transgender youths’ well-being, involving himself in... Read More

Vice President Joe Biden, a Catholic, Officiates Same-Gender Marriage

August 4, 2016/5 Comments/in Marriage & Family, Politics & Human Rights, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Vice President Joe Biden, who is Catholic, officiated a same-gender marriage this week. just as electoral... Read More