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The private audience between Pope Francis and Fr. James Martin, SJ, reverberated through all sides of the LGBTQ equality debate in the Catholic Church. But beyond a papal affirmation of the latter’s LGBTQ ministry, what significance is there to the meeting? Today’s post features two commentaries on this question.
Father James Martin, SJ, author of Building a Bridge: How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion, and Sensitivity, was received this morning by Pope Francis in a private audience at the Vatican.
Conservative bishops in the U.S. have endorsed Archbishop Charles Chaput’s criticism of Fr. James Martin, SJ, and his LGBT ministry, criticism on which the archbishop has doubled down.
Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia penned a critique of Jesuit Father James Martin’s pastoral outreach to LGBT people. Unfortunately, Archbishop Chaput is wrong in almost all of his assertions.
Fr. James Martin, SJ, has issued a response to a recent column by Philadelphia’s outgoing archbishop that criticized Martin for alleged ambiguities in his LGBTQ ministry.
Fr. James Martin, S.J. recently testified before a U.S. congressional committee on the role religious acts can play in combatting hate crimes, and suggested, “the most effective thing they can do is to get their own houses of worship in order.”
Two LGBT events at the University of Notre Dame are occurring in early 2019, signs that the campus is making further progress towards inclusion after the cause was stymied by administrators for so many years.
Fr. James Martin, SJ, has offered a “friendly response” to two bishops who recently criticized LGBT ministry as rejecting church doctrine and promoting atheism.
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.