Looking Toward the Youth Synod and Helping Young LGBT Catholics Tell Their Stories
A new website will allow Catholic LGBTQ youth to tell their stories to their bishop delegates at October’s synod on youth at the Vartican.
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A new website will allow Catholic LGBTQ youth to tell their stories to their bishop delegates at October’s synod on youth at the Vartican.
Pope Francis arrived in Dublin on Saturday, and almost immediately LGBT issues were raised as part of the discussion.
Pope Francis arrived in Dublin to be greeted by supporters of LGBT equality and justice for those who’ve been sexually abused by clergy.
“There have been many missteps in the planning of this event that have alienated LGBT people. And despite adding two program sessions on LGBT pastoral ministry, many LGBT people still feel alienated and unwelcome. What plans do you have for reconciliation with the LGBT community here in Ireland, and Cardinal Farrell, what plans do you have for reconciliation with LGBT people around the world?”
It seems like there actually WAS room, after all!
On Monday, on the eve of the opening of the WMF, the Wijngaards Institute, a Catholic think tank based in London, launched their new research project, an interdisciplinary study of the church’s teaching on LGBT issues.
(New Ways Ministry’s response to this news is embedded in this post. To read the…
An Irish reform group has launched a global petition asking top Church leaders in that country to help change the way Catholic teaching refers to LGBTQI people.
Earlier this week, Bondings 2.0 reported on Irish Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh’s admission that the institutional Church “struggles to find a language” through which it can relate to LGBT people. In response, political journalist and gay Catholic Ursula Halligan wrote a sharp response in The Irish Times.