Higher Education Archives - Page 11 of 26

Student’s Attempted Extortion of LGBTQ Teacher a Call to Action for Catholic Schools

January 13, 2020/2 Comments/in Employment Issues, Higher Education, Schools & Youth, Theology & Church Teaching /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

A recent Twitter thread emphasized the harm done to LGBTQ church workers when toxic atmospheres regarding gender and sexuality exist at Catholic institutions. Read More

Vote for the Best and Worst Catholic LGBTQ News of 2019!

December 26, 2019/1 Comment/in Anti-LGBTQ Criminalization, Arts, Books & Culture, Employment Issues, Gender Identity, Healthcare, Hierarchy, Higher Education, LGBTQ Clergy & Religious, Marriage & Family, New Ways Ministry, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Politics & Human Rights, Pope Francis, Religious Liberty, Schools & Youth, Theology & Church Teaching, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

As we have done every year since 2012, Bondings 2.0 is turning to its readers to ask “What were the best and worst Catholic LGBTQ news events of 2019?” Read More

Alverno College Welcomes First Transgender Student; Other Catholic Higher Education News

December 20, 2019/1 Comment/in Gender Identity, Higher Education, Schools & Youth, Uncategorized /by Kevin Molloy

As the semester winds down, here is a round-up of news stories concerning LGBTQ issues in Catholic higher education. Read More

After Conversion Therapy, Parents Blame Catholic Ministers for Lesbian Daughter’s Death

December 17, 2019/10 Comments/in Hierarchy, Higher Education, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Politics & Human Rights, Schools & Youth /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

The parents of a 24-year-old lesbian who died unexpectedly is blaming church ministers for what the family claims was a death by suicide because those ministers attempted conversion therapy on their daughter. Read More

Notre Dame Protest Poem Furor Has a Lesson to Teach Catholics

November 27, 2019/3 Comments/in Higher Education, Personal Stories, Theology & Church Teaching /by Kevin Molloy

The University of Notre Dame’s LGBTQ community and allies are forcing a reckoning on the Catholic campus that mirrors the reckoning happening in the wider U.S. Catholic church between theoretical arguments made about the queer community and the lived experience of LGBTQ folks. Read More

Ignatian Family Demands Justice for LGBTQ Community at #IFTJ19

November 22, 2019/1 Comment/in Higher Education, New Ways Ministry, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Schools & Youth, Uncategorized /by Kevin Molloy

As 2,000+ students, teachers, and campus ministers from Jesuit high schools, colleges, and parishes gathered in Washignton, D.C. metro area this weekend for the annual Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice (IFTJ), justice for the LGBTQ community took center stage. Read More

Catholic Students at Union Theological Counter LGBTQ-Negative Group’s Presentation

November 12, 2019/4 Comments/in Higher Education, Parish Life & Pastoral Care /by Melissa Feito

What does it mean to navigate through life as a Catholic LGBTQ person? Not all Catholic LGBTQ people have the same philosophy. The diversity of opinion was recently clear in New York where Catholic students held a counter event to one LGBTQ-negative group's presentation. Read More