New Guidelines Ban LGBT People from Parish Ministries

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In new guidelines, Philadelphia’s archbishop has banned people in same-gender relationships from pastoral or liturgical... Read More

Two Priests Offer Spiritual and Social Responses to the Orlando Shooting

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The Orlando shooting at a gay nightclub has prompted many, many statements and gestures of solidarity with... Read More

Church Should Apologize to Gay People, Says Top Adviser to Pope Francis

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The Catholic Church should apologize to lesbian and gay people for the harm it has caused... Read More

Vigil for Orlando Victims Displaces Gay-Negative Lecture at Catholic School

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A Catholic school in Australia replaced a lecture against marriage equality with a candlelight vigil for... Read More

Filipino Bishops Sharply Condemn Anti-LGBT Violence After Orlando Massacre

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Bishops in the Philippines responded to the Orlando massacre by sharply condemning anti-LGBT violence..  Their statement... Read More

In Orlando’s Wake, Catholic Ministry Calls on Church Leaders to Condemn Anti-LGBT Violence

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The following is a statement of Francis DeBernardo, New Ways Ministry’s Executive Director, released on... Read More

Fr. Dan Berrigan’s (Forgotten) Ministry to LGBT Catholics at the Church’s Margins

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When Father Daniel Berrigan passed away in late April, tributes and anecdotes poured out about... Read More

Complicating Catholic Understandings of Sex and Gender

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Respecting LGBTQI people should be a “fairly simple thing to do,” as Jesuit Fr. James Martin remarked... Read More

Archdiocese Denies Same-Gender Catholic Couple the ‘Freedom to Bury’

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A Catholic cemetery refused a same-gender couple’s headstone design because officials say its symbols conflict... Read More

Priest Comes Out, Only to Be Barred from Celebrating LGBT Welcome Mass

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Two Sundays ago, Bondings 2.0 reported on a homily given at a London-area Mass to welcome... Read More