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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.
Between now and October 2024, the Vatican has asked Catholics to both deepen and broaden their engagement with the Synod. To help LGBTQ+ people and allies respond to this invitation, New Ways Ministry is hosting a panel featuring two Synod delegates, Dr. Cynthia Bailey Manns and Julia Osęka.
The conflict between German Catholics and the Vatican has reached a new low. The Vatican released a letter criticizing the German church, specifically about has and women’s ordination, while one top bishop forcefully defended the German faithful’s efforts.
In the two weeks since the Synod on Synodality’s first General Assembly ended, a flurry of reactions and commentaries have appeared, both about the meeting’s final report and the larger process.
How the Catholic Church approaches LGBTQ+ issues is not solely a pastoral concern. The church, and the Synod assembly, need to examine whether Catholics are abiding by our own teachings to stop anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination.
For Catholic LGBTQ+ issues, there always seems to be news from German-speaking world, where pro-equality faithful have made tremendous inroads and controversies keep arising. Today’s post highlights three news stories in recent months revealing that tension.
Pope Francis announced a new round of cardinals to be created at a consistory this September, one the new head of the Vatican’s doctrinal office who is open to blessing queer couples and the other a Polish archbishop who seems more LGBTQ-positive than his country’s episcopate at large.
Today’s post concludes our series highlighting some of the more LGBTQ-positive participants in this October’s assembly for the Synod on Synodality, as the process is informally known.