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Bondings 2.0 asked ten leading voices in the LGBTQ Catholic world to respond to Christopher Lamb’s suggestion that the Catholic Church has made a decisive shift on LGBTQ issues. Today’s post is Part II of their responses.
A key Vatican official believed to be the person responsible for the Vatican ban on same-gender blessings last year has been reassigned by Pope Francis in a personnel change that could have wider significance.
A top church official in Malta instructed a priest to refrain from harmful remarks after the priest claimed being LGBTQ was worse than being possessed by the devil.
Catholics in Malta have sharply rejected claims by fellow Christians who support of “ex-gay” therapies, including one Church representative saying “it can’t be bad to be gay because God created it” and a group of LGBT Catholics and their parents publishing a supportive open letter.
‘Heterosexuality or homosexuality is not the cause of pedophilia.’
Guess who thinks that gay priests are NOT responsible for the sex abuse crisis?
A lead organizer for the Vatican’s summit on clergy sexual abuse this week has said homosexuality is neither a cause of abuse nor a central problem in the priesthood.
Church officials in Scotland are defending the posting of “ex-gay” therapy resources on a diocesan website, raising anew many Catholic leaders’ problematic and ambiguous stance to this horrible practice.
It’s Thanksgiving Day in the United States. As families and friends gather for celebrations today, we’ve also gathered the New Ways Ministry family of staff, volunteers, and board members to share some of what they are grateful for this year.
Statements from church officials and protestors alike targeted gay priests and Fr. James Martin, SJ, during the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ assembly in Baltimore this week. These statements are but some of several signs that the U.S. episcopate still strongly resists Pope Francis’ efforts at church reform.