Love Means More…Or Less

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The U.S. bishops' "Love Means More" initiative is much less about having fruitful conversation about love and life, intimacy and commitment, than it is about providing simplistic answers to complex questions and pat refutations of people’s experiences. Read More

Archbishop Negatively Compares Gender Transitions to Alcohol Use During Pregnancy

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The Archdiocese of Detroit has issued new policies concerning gender identity, joining dozens of other U.S. dioceses which have already implemented transgender-negative restrictive rules. Read More

Cardinal Welcomes New Transgender-Negative Vatican Document; And More Reactions

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Responding to pro-LGBTQ+ critics of the Vatican's latest declaration, a top U.S. prelate has said the church "listens with the heart of the parent to a child, but it doesn’t believe that the child gets everything they ask for." Read More

Gender Identity Should Be on Synod Agenda—And It Is Now, Writes Paul Elie

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Criticism and commentary about Dignitas Infinita, the Vatican's transgender-negative declaration on human dignity, has continued steadily in the week since the document's release. Today's post features insights from Paul Elie, a senior fellow at Georgetown University, who published his criticisms in The New Yorker. Read More

Vatican’s Doctrine Chief on Criminalization Laws: “When I Read Them I Wanted to Die”

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At a press conference to release the Vatican's new declaration on human dignity, which made headlines for condemning gender theory, the top doctrinal official also made positive comments about homosexuality. Yet, he doubled down on the declaration's anti-transgender aspects, too. Read More

“A Painful Lack of Understanding”: Theologians Respond to Vatican’s Latest Declaration

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"Fundamentally unserious," "not just insulting, devastating," and "a painful lack of understanding." These are some Catholic theologians' appraisals of Dignitas Infinita, the Vatican document on human dignity released Monday that condemns “gender theory” and “sex change," appraisals featured in today's post. Read More

What Transgender Catholics and Their Allies Are Saying About “Dignitas Infinita”

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How are transgender and nonbinary Catholics, their families, pastoral ministers, and allies responding to "Dignitas Infinita," the Vatican document on human dignity released Monday that condemns "gender theory" and "sex change"? Read More

New Vatican Document Condemns Gender Transitions and Undefined “Gender Theory”

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The Vatican doctrinal office issued its latest intervention about LGBTQ+ issues yesterday, part of a larger document on human dignity in contemporary society that posited a highly transgender-negative approach.  Read More

New Ways Ministry: Vatican Document on Human Dignity Fails LGBTQ+ People

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The new Vatican document, Dignitas Infinita, fails terribly by offering transgender and nonbinary people not infinite, but limited human dignity. While it lays out a wonderful rationale for why each human being, regardless of condition in life, must be respected, honored, and loved, it does not apply this principle to gender-diverse people. Read More

Bishop Calls Transgender Day of Visibility a “Source of Division”; And More News

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Today's post includes news about one U.S. bishop's objections to Transgender Day of Visibility, the closure of the homophobic website Church Militant, and more. Read More