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Catholic Speaker Left Alone on Stage After LGBTQ-Negative Remarks Cause Mass Walkout

November 7, 2024/2 Comments/in Higher Education, Politics & Human Rights, Schools & Youth, Uncategorized /by Sarah Cassidy

Students in Australia walked out of a Catholic university’s commencement after the keynote speaker made troubling comments about LGBTQ+ and abortion rights. Read More

Students, Faculty Protest St. Norbert College’s Change to Regressive Gender Policy

November 4, 2024/0 Comments/in Dignitas Infinita, Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Higher Education, Schools & Youth /by Elsie Carson-Holt

Saint Norbert College, a Catholic liberal arts school in De Pere, Wisconsin, has changed its gender policy to recognize only two genders, male and female. Read More

Parents, Law Professors Speak Out Against Catholic Schools’ Anti-LGBTQ+ Lawsuit

November 2, 2024/4 Comments/in Politics & Human Rights, Religious Liberty, Schools & Youth /by Phoebe Carstens

After a federal judge denied Catholic schools in Colorado the right to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, the schools having filed an appeal, prompting LGBTQ+ advocates and educators to become more outspoken. Read More

Doctor Appeals to Pope Francis: Support Transgender Healthcare, Stop Discrimination

October 24, 2024/4 Comments/in Dignitas Infinita, Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Healthcare, Marriage & Family, New Ways Ministry, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Personal Stories, Politics & Human Rights, Pope Francis, Schools & Youth, Theology & Church Teaching /by Guest Contributor

This week, Bondings 2.0 is publishing the personal testimonies of the transgender, intersex, and ally Catholics who met with Pope Francis last Saturday with the support of New Ways Ministry. Read More

Meeting with Pope, Deacon Faults Church for “Stunning Lack of Compassion” to Trans People

October 22, 2024/6 Comments/in Dignitas Infinita, Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Healthcare, Marriage & Family, New Ways Ministry, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Politics & Human Rights, Pope Francis, Schools & Youth, Theology & Church Teaching /by Guest Contributor

This week, Bondings 2.0 is publishing the personal testimonies of the transgender, intersex, and ally Catholics who met with Pope Francis last Saturday with the support of New Ways Ministry. Read More

New Ways Ministry Brings Transgender, Intersex, Ally Catholics for Dialogue with Pope Francis

October 12, 2024/6 Comments/in Dignitas Infinita, Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Healthcare, Marriage & Family, New Ways Ministry, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Politics & Human Rights, Pope Francis, Schools & Youth, Synod on Synodality, Theology & Church Teaching, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Pope Francis met today with a diverse group of transgender, intersex, and ally Catholics, including a medical doctor who provides gender transition care. Read More

Latin American LGBTQ+ Advocates Participate in Major Catholic Youth Ministry Gathering

October 1, 2024/0 Comments/in Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Politics & Human Rights, Schools & Youth /by Jeromiah Taylor

Catholic LGBTQ+ advocates in Latin America participated in an official church gathering about youth ministry this summer, at which they appealed for the institutional church to better care for and defend LGBTQ+ youth. Read More

“Cura Personalis” Leads Georgetown University to Embrace Gender-Inclusive Housing

September 25, 2024/0 Comments/in Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Higher Education, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Personal Stories, Schools & Youth /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

I have come to believe that it is because of Georgetown’s commitment to cura personalis — not despite its Catholic identity — that the university is growing to truly embrace and celebrate our LGBTQIA+ campus community. Read More

German Diocese Appoints Three Lay People to Lead Queer-Sensitive Pastoral Care

September 23, 2024/2 Comments/in Employment Issues, Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Schools & Youth, Uncategorized /by Ariell Watson Simon

"As Christians, we want to be able to give all people a home, which is why it is so important that there are these safe spaces for queer people in our churches,” says one German Catholic, Manuel Rios Juarez. He and two fellow pastoral workers were recently designated as contact persons for queer-sensitive pastoral care in the Diocese of Hildesheim. Read More

New Article Offers LGBTQ+ Perspectives in Debate Over Reproductive Surrogacy

September 20, 2024/2 Comments/in Dignitas Infinita, Healthcare, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Personal Stories, Schools & Youth, Theology & Church Teaching, Uncategorized /by Phoebe Carstens

In the "National Catholic Reporter," journalist Camillo Barone explores the ways that surrogacy has played a part in Catholics’ lives, offering a perspective on the practice that objects to its description as “a grave violation of dignity" yet which has brought much goodness to LGBTQ+ people. Read More