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Catholic leaders in Malawi organized and led an interfaith protest against LGBTQ+ rights as the nation’s criminalization laws currently face a court challenge, while bishops in Cote d’Ivoire decried the country’s more permissive laws on LGBTQ+ rights.
A leader of Germany’s influential lay Catholic organization has criticized the cardinal who censured a priest for conducting a blessing liturgy inclusive of queer couples.
The Vatican’s has intervened to stop a theologian from becoming dean of an Italian seminary apparently over his views on sexuality, which include LGBTQ-positive writings. The debacle has raised concerns about academic freedom in the church and the relationship between the academy and the Roman Curia.
“We must always make every effort to communicate and treat one another with charity and respect,” wrote Fr. Michael Hughes in a formal statement of apology for allowing the spread of homophobic misinformation in his parish’s bulletin. “I pledge to do so moving forward.”
A Two-Spirit student has left Montana Catholic high school after facing discrimination due to the local diocese’s transgender-negative policy couple with school administrators’ actions.
“We know that you’re whole as you are,” says Sr. Barbara Battista, “and we’re going to find a way to reach out to you and to be there with you.” This was with the message a group of Catholic women religious wanted to send to the trans community on this year’s Transgender Day of Visibility in March.
Catholic Allies, a new Indianapolis-based non-profit, is engaging families, alumni, and educators to create a more supportive environment for LGBTQ+ students in local Catholic schools, even as the archdiocese has been more restrictive on LGBTQ+ issues.
The Archdiocese of Portland has become the latest U.S. diocese to issue a trans-negative policy on gender issues, which describes gender affirming care as a “totalitarian program that only causes more suffering and lasting damage.”
Mychal Judge, like the Prodigal Son, overcame his brokenness and shame through honesty, humility, and self-acceptance. And through that, he was able to return to the embrace of an all-loving God, who like the father in today’s gospel pulls out all stops and spares no expense to show us extravagant love.
The Association of Catholic Priests in Ireland (ACP) is supporting conversion therapy ban and calling for additional research on these “ineffective and harmful” practices, all as part of a national inquiry about the topic.