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Bishops in North Africa have endorsed “Fiducia Supplicans,” the Vatican declaration on blessings, breaking from a African bishops’ wider statement rejecting the declaration in harsh terms. Today’s post features this story and other development in the debate over blessings same-gender couples and others in “irregular” situations.
This week, New Ways Ministry is announcing a new resource that documents the LGBTQ-related records, good and bad, of Synod assembly participants to help understand how this conversation about inclusion and equality might proceed.
The participants’ list for the Synod’s next assembly causes both hope and disappointment for New Ways Ministry as we work for LGBTQ+ inclusion. This news commits us to continue working to ensure LGBTQ+ people will be heard in the church’s synodal process.
Some Catholic officials in India have affirmed the government’s opposition to marriage equality coming from the nation’s courts, diverging from several Indiana church leaders’ more position stance in recent years.
Pope Francis has appointed several new members to his Council of Cardinals who have LGBTQ-positive records, elevating the members to be among the pope’s closest advisors.
The bishop of Diocese of Roseau in the Caribbean has expressed his support for the continued criminalization of homosexuality in the island nation of Dominica, in an apparent reversal of his previous opposition to such a measure.
LGBTQ advocates are praising Pope Francis for his most recent statement in support of civil unions recognizing same-gender couples.
An Indian LGBTQ advocate has challenged one of the nation’s bishops for claiming homosexuality is unnatural and for opposing marriage equality, an issue now pending in India’s legal system.
Today’s post features news briefs on one Catholic priest’s harmful comments about drag story hours, a Catholic lesbian’s appointment to the U.K.’s House of Lords, and the legacy of LGBTQ advocate Wendell Rodricks, who recently passed away.