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Maltese Catholics Gift Pope Francis Book of LGBTQ+ Testimonies; And More News

February 17, 2024/2 Comments/in Gender Identity, Hierarchy, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Politics & Human Rights, Pope Francis, Synod on Synodality, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Today's post includes story about a Maltese Catholic LGBTQ+ group's new book, Greek bishops' opposition to marriage equality, and a gathering of transgender-negative bishops in Prague. Read More

You’re Invited! The Challenge of “Fiducia Supplicans”

February 15, 2024/0 Comments/in Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, New Ways Ministry, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Same-Gender Blessings, Synod on Synodality, Theology & Church Teaching /by Brian Flanagan

Join New Ways Ministry for a webinar on the complex reception of Fiducia Supplicans where three panelists will offer their perspectives and insights. Read More

Pope Francis: Condemning LGBTQ+ Blessings While Ignoring Real Injustice Is Hypocrisy

February 9, 2024/2 Comments/in Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Pope Francis, Same-Gender Blessings, Synod on Synodality, Theology & Church Teaching, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

In his latest remarks about blessing same-gender couples, Pope Francis criticized as hypocrites those faithful who seem to negatively obsess about LGBTQ+ people, while ignoring the world's real injustices. Today's post includes this news and more updates on the reception of Fiducia Supplicans that remains ongoing. Read More

Synod Delegates Tell LGBTQ+ People: ‘Let Us Hear Your Voice. Use Us to Amplify It.’

February 5, 2024/1 Comment/in Gender Identity, Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, New Ways Ministry, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Pope Francis, Same-Gender Blessings, Schools & Youth, Synod on Synodality, Theology & Church Teaching /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

"Let us hear your voice. Let us hear your stories. Use us to make sure that it's amplified." This was the exhortation made by a delegate to the Synod on Synodality's General Assembly while speaking to LGBTQ+ Catholics and allies last week. Read More

LGBTQ+ Advocates Forge Ahead in Seeking Inclusion from Synodal Process

January 30, 2024/0 Comments/in New Ways Ministry, Synod on Synodality /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

The countdown to the Synod on Synodality's final global assembly in October 2024 has begun, and there are many questions both about what may change by year's end and if anything has changed already. An article in U.S. Catholic provided some analysis about the Synod and change as it relates to issues of church reform. Read More

Fr. James Alison: LGBTQ+ Blessings Will Expand Inclusion While Preserving Unity

January 23, 2024/0 Comments/in LGBTQ Clergy & Religious, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Pope Francis, Same-Gender Blessings, Synod on Synodality, Theology & Church Teaching, Uncategorized /by Ariell Watson Simon

“The Church is for sinners.” With this statement, gay priest and theologian James Alison summarizes the underlying message of Fiducia Supplicans and explains the document’s significance will “open a way forward that will allow LGBT Catholics to be listened to on their own terms while maintaining the unity of the Church.” Read More

Synod Offers “Fresh Hope” for LGBTQ+ Welcome in Church, Writes Theologian

January 16, 2024/2 Comments/in Synod on Synodality, Theology & Church Teaching /by Ariell Watson Simon

“There is…fresh hope for the church to develop a truly 'catholic' (inclusive) stance toward its LGBTQ+ members,” one theologian opined in evaluating the Synod on Synodality's first General Assembly that concluded last fall. Read More

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Nonviolent Lessons for the Synod

January 15, 2024/3 Comments/in Politics & Human Rights, Synod on Synodality /by Francis DeBernardo, Editor

LGBTQ+ Catholics can learn a lot from Dr. King. And as I read his words, I couldn’t help but hear the echoes of what Pope Francis has been teaching the church about synodality. Read More

“Living This Diversity Should Make Us Rejoice!”

January 14, 2024/0 Comments/in Scriptural Reflections, Synod on Synodality /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

In Fiducia Supplicans—and even more so in the pro-LGBTQ+ movements in Germany, Flanders, and elsewhere that brought it about—I see the lived diversity that Pope Francis says “should make us rejoice!” Read More

You’re Invited! The Synod & LGBTQ+ Issues: Towards October 2024

January 12, 2024/0 Comments/in Gender Identity, Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, New Ways Ministry, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Personal Stories, Same-Gender Blessings, Synod on Synodality /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Between now and October 2024, the Vatican has asked Catholics to both deepen and broaden their engagement with the Synod. To help LGBTQ+ people and allies respond to this invitation, New Ways Ministry is hosting a panel featuring two Synod delegates, Dr. Cynthia Bailey Manns and Julia Osęka. Read More