Bishop Expresses “Serious Concerns” Over New LGBTQ Law Clinic at Gonzaga University
The bishop of Spokane, Washingon, has expressed "serious concern" over Gonzaga University School of Law's inauguration of a new LGBTQ+ Rights Clinic. Read More
Church Worker Survey Finds Split Over Marriage Equality, Communion for LGBTQ Catholics
A survey conducted by NBC News queried over 30,000 employees in the Catholic Church, covering a range of subjects including women’s leadership in the church, marriage equality, and the sexual abuse crisis. Read More
Scottish Monk with Anti-LGBTQ Record Now Excommunicated; Other News Items
Today's post features several news items, including an anti-LGBTQ Scottish monk's excommunication, Belize's legalization of homosexuality, and Catholic officials working against conversion therapy. Read More
With Chaput Out, Philadelphia’s New Archbishop Should End Church’s Anti-LGBTQ Lawsuit
Pope Francis appointed a new leader for Philadelphia last week, naming Nelson Pérez as archbishop and ending the tenure of his caustic predecessor, Charles Chaput. While repairing the damage Chaput inflicted on LGBTQ Catholics and their communities will take time and intentionality, one simple step Pérez could take to promote goodwill is ending the archdiocese's lawsuit against LGBTQ rights. Read More
U.S. Bishops Voice Objections to Republican-Led ‘Fairness for All Act’
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops recently wrote to Congress to express concerns over the Fairness for All Act which aims to simultaneously protect LGBTQ people from discrimination and religious institutions’ freedom from government interference. Read More
Reclaiming the Real Definition of Religious Freedom
"As LGBTQ people and as Catholics, we need to reject the misleading opposition of religious freedom and civil rights, reclaiming religious freedom on both Catholic and constitutional terms." Read More
Will LGBTQ Church Worker Firings Stop in 2020? That is One Friar’s Hope!
What do the 2020s hold for Catholic LGBTQ issues? It is harder to predicate church developments in the age of Pope Francis. But Franciscan Fr. Dan Horan ventured one hope for the next decade in regards to the spate of LGBTQ church employment disputes over this past decade. Read More
Vote for the Best and Worst Catholic LGBTQ News of 2019!
As we have done every year since 2012, Bondings 2.0 is turning to its readers to ask “What were the best and worst Catholic LGBTQ news events of 2019?” Read More
Why the U.S. Bishops Can’t Have It Both Ways
If some bishops get their way to be allowed to discriminate against LGBTQ foster and adoptive parents, it would erode the firewall intended to prevent religious institutions from controlling government, and vice versa. Read More
Results Mixed in Changing Church Records for Transgender and Intersex Catholics
Transgender and intersex Catholics have faced mixed results when requesting that church records be emended to reflect their actual names and gender identities. In Argentina, a transgender activist is suing a bishop who refused to change the activist's church records, a case that could now be taken up by the nation's Supreme Court. But in the Philippines, an intersex Catholic had their church records changed successfully. Read More