You Feel It in Your Bowels

Grace and nature, redemption and obedience: these are knit together in the sinews of your trans body. Read More

From Talking “About” to Talking “With”: Encountering the Queer Catholic Community in Germany

"Queerness in the Catholic Church" is an invitation to engage, an opportunity to listen, and an example of how we can work toward building a community marked by desire, love, and blessedness. Read More

As a Catholic Doctor, I Know Gender-Affirming Care Is Essential for Transgender Youth.

Because I am a Catholic physician, I spent many hours discerning whether it was morally acceptable to treat transgender children. Read More

Could Pope’s LGBTQ+ Welcome Have Helped Catholic Mother Accept Her Gay Son?

While much of the commentary about Fiducia Supplicans has been from church leaders, theologians, and pastoral ministers, there have been fewer stories from ordinary people about what the declaration means to them. The New York Times carried one of these stories, which speaks the impact blessings could have not just for couples, but for LGBTQ+ acceptance in families more broadly. Read More

U.S. Catholic Includes Transgender Woman’s Voice in Gender Equity Article

A Catholic publication has included a transgender woman and other LGBTQ+ advocates in an essay about whether church leaders are actually attentive to issues of gender, in the Synod on Synodality and otherwise.  Read More

Catholic Mother of Queer Child Finds Hope in Maryknoll Priest’s Inclusive Work

The Catholic mother of an LGBTQ+ child has written about a missionary priest who has given her hope for a truly inclusive church. Read More

Scapegoating LGBTQ+ People Must End and All Be Welcomed, Says Fr. James Alison

After recognizing at age nine that he was gay, James Alison, a priest and theologian, spent many scholarly years trying to understand why queer people are targets in society. His conclusion: the queer community has become victims of the age-old practice known as "scapegoating." Read More

Living on the Margins—Just Like Jesus

Identifying with those on the margins, I don’t need nor want to defend myself. I am much freer here knowing I am blessed everyday walking with Jesus who chose to live on the margins. Read More

Catholic Schools Week: Paving a Queer Way Forward for Ministerial Work

Already, each of us paved our own separate ways through exclusionary sentiments and doctrine in the Church to get to that room.  Read More

Catholic Schools Week: One LGBTQ+ Campus Minister’s Journey to Affirming Work

I can’t repair injustice in the Church alone, but I can choose to work in places that are more affirming, and depart from the most hostile spaces. Read More