Catholic and LGBT: Stories of Faith, Family, and Love

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Two booklets containing the personal stories and faith journeys of LGBT Catholics and their families are now available in electronic form, spreading the power of experience as a way to build inclusiveness and equality. Read More

Recognizing, Understanding, and Affirming Asexual People

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There’s a small change in one of the definitions of Fr. James Martin’s second edition of Building a Bridge: How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion and Sensitivity. The change may be minor, but it makes a world of difference to a particular group of people who are often forgotten.  Read More

Telling the Stories of LGBTQ Catholics: An Interview with Xorje Olivares

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Xorje Olivares is the queer Latino host of "Affirmative Reaction" on SiriusXM's progressive channel.  He's also Catholic. He's telling the stories of LGBTQ Catholics in print and on radio. Read More

Traditional Italian Madonna Devotion Attracts Third Gender “Femminielli”

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An in-depth profile on the Madonna of Montevergine is drawing greater attention to the Italian third-gender femminielli and the wider LGBTQ community who participate in an annual pilgrimage to this ancient Neapolitan shrine. Read More

Pop Singer Sam Smith Helps Catholic LGBTQ Youth Reconcile Sexuality and Spirituality

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Sam Smith is an openly gay musician, who also was raised Catholic. Earlier this year,... Read More

Navigating the Complexities of Being Catholic and LGBTQ

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Some LGBTQ Catholics  consider church teaching on sexuality and gender issues oppressive. Yet, many  also feel the Church has always been their home and struggle to stay.  The Church gives these Catholics something can’t find other places.  They have found ways to be authentic both in their faith identity and in their LGBTQ identity. Several Catholics have recently described how they navigate the complexities of these two identities, as well as with other identities, cultures, and life experiences that are part of their lives.  Read More

“Made in God’s Image:” Waithe’s Met Gala Cape and LGBTQ Catholics

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Lena Waithe strode onto this year’s Met Gala red carpet with an unmistakable message that came in a bright rainbow cape draped around her shoulders. Her message was one that LGBTQ Catholics make every time they show up at church. Read More

Taking LGBTQ and Catholicism ‘One Day at a Time”

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Netflix’s “One Day at a Time,” a reboot of the 1970s Norman Lear sitcom of the same name, has been portraying modern experiences of coming out to a Catholic family in a refreshingly honest way. Read More

Fr. Martin’s Second Edition Keeps the LGBT Conversation Moving

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“It dawned on me that it’s having someone in a collar say these things, from the pulpit that is really resonating with people” Read More

Untangling the Experiences of Being ‘Queer and Catholic’

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"Queer and Catholic: A life of contradiction," is a new autobiography by a gay Catholic man in the United Kingdom who recounts his developments in sexuality and spirituality and where those two areas converged Read More