A Call for a Mass for LGBT People at the Vatican
Today’s post is from guest blogger Benjamin Brenkert, a contributor to The Daily Beast. Brenkert will... Read More
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a daily blog of Catholic LGBTQ news, opinion, and spirituality
Massachusetts Bishops Offer Temperate Response to New Transgender Law
/6 Comments/in Hierarchy, Politics & Human Rights, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing EditorCatholic bishops in Massachusetts have offered a tempered, though not perfect, response to newly passed anti-discrimination... Read More
Two Priests Offer Spiritual and Social Responses to the Orlando Shooting
/7 Comments/in Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Theology & Church Teaching, Uncategorized /by Francis DeBernardo, EditorThe Orlando shooting at a gay nightclub has prompted many, many statements and gestures of solidarity with... Read More
Catholics Welcome Pope Francis’ Call for Church Apology to LGBT People, Others
/10 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing EditorCatholics have begun to welcome Pope Francis’ recommendation that the church apologize to LGBT people, women,... Read More
After Orlando, Archbishop Pledges to LGBT Communities: “I Stand With You”
/32 Comments/in Hierarchy, Politics & Human Rights, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing EditorCatholic leaders were initially silent about the anti-LGBT prejudices undergirding the mass shooting at Pulse Nightclub... Read More
Complicating Catholic Understandings of Sex and Gender
/12 Comments/in Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Theology & Church Teaching, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing EditorRespecting LGBTQI people should be a “fairly simple thing to do,” as Jesuit Fr. James Martin remarked... Read More
The Catholic LGBT Stories You Found Most Interesting in 2015
/3 Comments/in New Ways Ministry /by Francis DeBernardo, EditorAs I look back on the year that is closing, I thought it might be... Read More
After Synod on the Family, Catholic Church Faced with Choice on LGBT Issues
/13 Comments/in Marriage & Family /by Robert Shine, Managing EditorThe Synod on the Family is over and Catholics await Pope Francis' apostolic exhortation on family life derived from the bishops' deliberations, curious whether it will mirror the Final Report or deviate away towards a much hoped for, more merciful approach. Read More
"With All Families, Without Condemnation" (And More Synod Reactions)
/2 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor“With All Families, Without Condemnation.” That was the headline last Sunday on Italy’s national Catholic... Read More
LGBT Advocates, Vatican Observers React to Synod on the Family's Final Report
/5 Comments/in Anti-LGBTQ Criminalization, New Ways Ministry /by Robert Shine, Managing EditorNow that the Synod on the Family is concluded, much is already being written about an event The New York Times called the "most momentous, and contentious, meeting of bishops" since Vatican II. Below, Bondings 2.0 provides some early commentaries and reactions related to LGBT topics. Read More
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