LGBTQ+ Publications Honored by Catholic Media Association

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Several LGBTQ-related books and articles won awards at the annual Catholic Media Association (CMA) meeting earlier this month. Today's post features information about those awardees. Read More

How Catholics Celebrate Pride: Jesuit Pastor Defends Pride Mass Against Protests

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This month, it has seemed that so much of what we cover on Bondings 2.0 is negative news regarding Pride. For this final week of Pride Month, we are instead highlighting in a series of posts titled "How Catholics Celebrate Pride" all the good ways that the people of God are celebrating queerness and advocating for equality. Read More

Nuns, Bishops, and Athletes All Opine about L.A. Dodgers’ Catholic LGBTQ+ Controversy

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The controversy involving the Los Angeles Dodgers' decision to honor the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (SPI) for their charitable work has continued with seemingly everyone weighing in, from women religious to baseball players to bishops. Read More

Will Pope Francis Speak Out After Catholics Helped Pass Uganda’s Harsh New Anti-Gay Law?

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At least one diocese in Uganda has applauded the country's president for signing a new law further criminalizing LGBTQ+ people that includes the death penalty as a sanction, while Catholic politicians were key to the law's passage. Ahead of the law's passage, LGBTQ+ advocates appealed to Pope Francis for intervention. Will he do so now? Read More

Catholics Involved in Controversy Over L.A. Dodgers Honoring Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence

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A Major League Baseball team and a controversial LGBTQ+ group have been at the center of a dispute prompted by right wing Catholics over the group being given an award. The dispute has led to a wider conversation about Catholic sisters and real inclusion. Read More

Catholic Sisters to Trans Community: “We’re Going to Find a Way to Be There With You”

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“We know that you're whole as you are,” says Sr. Barbara Battista, “and we're going to find a way to reach out to you and to be there with you.” This was with the message a group of Catholic women religious wanted to send to the trans community on this year’s Transgender Day of Visibility in March. Read More

Advocates Reflect on Benedict XVI’s Largely Negative LGBTQ+ Impact

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LGBTQ+ advocates have marked the death of Benedict XVI, the pope emeritus, with reflections about the impact he had—as a theologian and cardinal, as well as pope—on issues of gender and sexuality in the church. Read More

Benedict XVI in the Company of LGBTQ+ Saints

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Since hearing of his death, I’ve imagined Benedict XVI sitting in a heavenly classroom where his teachers are queer martyrs and saints. Read More

Indonesian Catholics Protest Provincial Ban on LGBTQ+ Education; And More News

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Today's post features news about Catholics advocating for LGBTQ+ rights in Indonesia, a Milwaukee parish's Mass for inclusion, and more. Read More

Into Your Home

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Do you feel that God directs you through your dreams? Read More