Prayers of Lament and Hope for LGBTQ+ People
Lamenting is part of our path to God, and in practicing lament, we express the fullness of our human emotions: distress and hope, longing and love, fear and joy. Read More
Bondings 2.0
a daily blog of Catholic LGBTQ news, opinion, and spirituality
In Italy, Gay Priests Come Out via Letter Decrying Homophobia in the Church; And More News
When Bondings 2.0 first began in 2011, the hope was to find enough content to post once a day. Twelve years later, we consistently find ourselves with too much Catholic LGBTQ+ content! We have stuck to one post per day as a rule, but that at times means some news gets lost and never make it onto the blog. Today's post is a form of our "News Notes" series that features two of these older stories, which are still relevant and worth reading. Read More
Church Teaching Needs to Acknowledge Gender Is Not a Binary, Writes Catholic Journalist
In the National Catholic Reporter, Rebecca Bratten Weiss explores the way that claims of "gender ideology" by Pope Francis and other church leaders fail to reflect gender realities in nature in favor of the church's doctrinal claims. Read More
We Must Find Pride and Power in Queer Spirituality, Writes Transgender Catholic
In an essay for National Catholic Reporter, Maxwell Kuzma, a transgender Catholic, writes about the power and pride of queer spirituality, even in the face of continual hate and discrimination. Read More
Catholic Sister Says Bishop Invoked Her Name in Misleading Way on Transgender Healthcare
A Catholic sister long involved in transgender ministry has said a bishop made misleading claims about communication between them as the U.S. bishops discussed potentially ban gender-affirming care in Catholic hospitals. Read More
Canadian Pastor Apologizes for Parish Bulletin Insert Linking Pride Flag to Child Abuse
“We must always make every effort to communicate and treat one another with charity and respect,” wrote Fr. Michael Hughes in a formal statement of apology for allowing the spread of homophobic misinformation in his parish’s bulletin. “I pledge to do so moving forward.” Read More
Top Vatican Official: Linking Gay Priests to Abuse Is “Scientifically Untenable Association”
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State for the Holy See, refuted the idea that homosexuality is linked to sexual abuse, writing in a new book that blaming the abuse crisis in the church on gay priests is a "serious and scientifically untenable association." Read More
We Must Sow LGBTQ+ Seeds in the Synod, Even When Most Fail
Yet, the bulk of the parable and Jesus' explanation is not actually about the apparent heroes, the seeds in rich soil. Instead, more attention is paid to the failures. Three-quarters of the seeds cast out by the parable's sower simply died. But this is not about failure. Read More
Pope Francis Names Two Pastorally-Inclined Cardinals Open to LGBTQ+ Issues
Pope Francis announced a new round of cardinals to be created at a consistory this September, one the new head of the Vatican's doctrinal office who is open to blessing queer couples and the other a Polish archbishop who seems more LGBTQ-positive than his country's episcopate at large. Read More
How Are Synod Assembly Participants on LGBTQ+ Issues? — Part III
Today's post concludes our series highlighting some of the more LGBTQ-positive participants in this October's assembly for the Synod on Synodality, as the process is informally known. Read More