The Glory of God Shall Be Revealed–And All Will See It Together!

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The voices of LGBTQ+ Christians are not futile; their cries are not in vain. Rather, their stories, their lives, their voices help announce the Reign of God, preparing the way for the Glory of God. Read More

Queer Scriptures for Advent’s Third Sunday

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Why should there be a distinction between faith and love? That seems objectively disordered! Read More

New Film Addresses Old Cultural Scar of “Ex-Gay” Therapy in Ireland

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Ireland’s public television network has aired a new film about conversion therapy and the damage it causes people who undergo it. The film reveals the long shadow a history of LGBTQ persecution in a largely Catholic country casts despite legal advances for LGBTQ equality in recent years. Read More

Happy Are All Who Wait for God!

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As an LGBT Catholic, I sometimes feel like I’m waiting for God and then something else. Read More

“Plague,” A New Podcast, Remembers Complex Story of AIDS and the Catholic Church

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A new podcast on AIDS and the Catholic Church is being lauded for its honest, challenging engagement with a harrowing period for lesbian and gay Catholics in the 1980s and 1990s. Read More

The People Who Walked in Darkness Have Seen a Great Light

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On this first Sunday of Advent, "Bondings 2.0" readers respond to the prophet Isaiah's Scripture, "The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light." Read More

Sr. Jeannine Gramick Preaches on LGBTQ Ministry for First Sunday of Advent

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Sr. Jeannine Gramick, SL, co-founder of New Ways Ministry and longtime LGBTQ advocate, was Catholic Women Preach's latest homilist, kicking off the liturgical year with her thoughts on the readings for the First Sunday of Advent (which can be found here). Read More

Giving Thanks for Our Abundant Blessings

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Every year on Thanksgiving Day in the U.S., Bondings 2.0 presents a bundle of gratitudes from the volunteers, board, and staff of New Ways Ministry. Today's post is this year's selections, reminding us that God is always bountiful in blessing us! Read More

Notre Dame Protest Poem Furor Has a Lesson to Teach Catholics

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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

As Germany’s Synodal Way Approaches, Lessons from a Gay Priest’s Coming Out

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With Germany's synodal process set to begin this Advent, which will examine sexual morality among other topics, one gay priest's coming out story reveals how honesty, authenticity, and encounter could powerfully benefit that nation's Catholics and the church generally.  Read More