Community Can Heal LGBTQ+ Employees in Catholic Institutions

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Learning about minority stress, and how I, as a queer Catholic working in a Catholic institution uniquely experience this phenomenon, validated my feelings and made me feel seen.  Read More

Survival Strategies for Dealing With Internal “Catholic vs. LGBTQ+” Tension

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Giving up either identity is often not an option. Living within the tension becomes a necessity. Read More

All Are Welcome! Are All Welcome?

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The church needs the gifts of the LGBTQ+ faithful. Perhaps God designed it that way, the Holy Spirit distributing gifts among the baptised so that no one member of the body can say to another “I do not need you.”  Read More

Catholic Parish Hosts Premiere of Film About Fired Gay Teacher

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"This piece is not about pointing fingers,.It's about sharing the emotional struggle that somebody goes through. . ." Read More

Minnesota Supreme Court Will Hear Case of a Trans Librarian Dismissed By Catholic School

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At the heart of the lawsuit is the reality that her position as a librarian was completely independent of the Church’s religious teachings. Read More

Merging DEI and Ministry Offices at Catholic College Causes Controversy

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The decision also comes amid growing federal pressure, with the Trump administration threatening to revoke funding from higher education institutions that maintain DEI offices. Read More

Taking Queer People Seriously in Church Life

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“If the Church truly wants to take queer people seriously, it is not enough to simply formulate tolerance. It is about genuine recognition and participation in Church life." Read More

On Following One’s Conscience–and Suffering the Consequences

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Of the scores and scores of people I've met who have had to make a conscience decision that opposed dominant thought and practice, not one, no matter what the price, was ever sorry they did so. Read More

#OutInChurch Leader Sees Progress, But Warns Against Retrenchment

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Without a fundamental cultural and theological shift, progress will remain precarious—always vulnerable to reversal, always dependent on those brave enough to speak out. Read More

Former Teacher Sues Catholic School for Inaction on Harrassment

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The focus of Klaus’s discrimination lawsuit is his assertion that the school failed to respond in any actionable way to his reports of anti-gay and anti-trans discrimination. Read More