Synod Delegates Tell LGBTQ+ People: ‘Let Us Hear Your Voice. Use Us to Amplify It.’

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"Let us hear your voice. Let us hear your stories. Use us to make sure that it's amplified." This was the exhortation made by a delegate to the Synod on Synodality's General Assembly while speaking to LGBTQ+ Catholics and allies last week. Read More

“God Doesn’t Want You to Be Miserable.”

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What does it mean to have an obligation or purpose to preach the good news? Are we under the same obligation that Paul and Jesus were? Read More

Official Seeks Ban on Pride Flags in Ontario Catholic Schools

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Controversies over whether Catholic schools in Ontario, Canada, can fly Pride flags continue, as do protests by parents, teachers, and LGBTQ+ students. Read More

Catholic Schools Week: Paving a Queer Way Forward for Ministerial Work

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Already, each of us paved our own separate ways through exclusionary sentiments and doctrine in the Church to get to that room.  Read More

Catholic Schools Week: The Arc Is Indeed Long

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My own experience with Catholic high schools – an arc of more than forty years – confirms that the direction is indeed towards justice, but that we need to keep working to make the arc bend that way. Read More

Pope Says Most Catholics Will “Gradually” Accept LGBTQ+ Blessings; And More News

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As the debate over Fiducia Supplicans continues unabated in 2024, so, too, seem to be Pope Francis' interventions about the declaration, which allows blessings for same-gender couples. Today's post features news about the pope's remarks and other developments. Read More

LGBTQ+ Advocates Forge Ahead in Seeking Inclusion from Synodal Process

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The countdown to the Synod on Synodality's final global assembly in October 2024 has begun, and there are many questions both about what may change by year's end and if anything has changed already. An article in U.S. Catholic provided some analysis about the Synod and change as it relates to issues of church reform. Read More

Catholic Schools Week: One LGBTQ+ Campus Minister’s Journey to Affirming Work

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I can’t repair injustice in the Church alone, but I can choose to work in places that are more affirming, and depart from the most hostile spaces. Read More

Disrupting the “In Group”

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In their view, to be “chosen” means there must be some people who are left out. Full acceptance without discrimination seems to threaten their own inclusion. Read More

Pope Francis: “Moral Perfection” Not Required for Blessings; And More News

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Pope Francis has opined for the second time this year in defense of Fiducia Supplicans, the Vatican declaration allowing blessings for same-gender couples and others in "irregular" situations. Today's post features that news and other updates on reception of the declaration. Read More