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Yesterday, Bondings 2.0 reported on a working document in the German church’s Synodal Way process that was about sexuality and relationships, and which has potentially to significant advance LGBTQ inclusion in the church. Today’s post features two reactions to that document, as well as one other story from Germany.
Participants in Germany’s Synodal Way included a working document on sexuality and relationships during regional meetings this month that, if approved later, could move the church forward significantly on LGBTQ inclusion and questions of sexuality more generally.
With Germany’s synodal process set to begin this Advent, which will examine sexual morality among other topics, one gay priest’s coming out story reveals how honesty, authenticity, and encounter could powerfully benefit that nation’s Catholics and the church generally.
New Ways Ministry is pleased to announce that Sr. Nathalie Becquart, XMCJ, Undersecretary of the Synod of Bishops at the Vatican, will be delivering the 2022 Father Robert Nugent Memorial Lecture.
In October, the Catholic Church will begin a two-year process that could be the most revolutionary ecclesial event since Vatican II. It is essential that LGBTQ Catholics and allies be involved.
The countdown to the Synod on Synodality’s final global assembly in October 2024 has begun, and there are many questions both about what may change by year’s end and if anything has changed already. An article in U.S. Catholic provided some analysis about the Synod and change as it relates to issues of church reform.
LGBTQ+ Catholics worldwide welcome this early Christmas gift, which brings them much closer to being full and equal members of the Church they love so dearly.
Because we are all called to participation and co-responsibility in the life of a synodal church, we should now figure out what to do in the period between this past October’s General Assembly of the Synod on Synodality and the final General Assembly in October 2024?
To encounter today’s Gospel, we need to recognize that these systems in which we dwell are based on the practice of honor and shame.