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Regular readers of Bondings 2.0 will know that since December, the debate over Fiducia Supplicans and blessings for queer couples has dominated Catholic LGBTQ+ news—indeed, it is hard to keep up! Today’s post plays a bit of catch up with positive stories from the last few months.
Can the official teaching of the Church come to recognize and value the lives and loves of queer Catholics? Why not?
Several Catholic leaders in India have hailed a judicial ruling that the nation’s Parliament, not its courts, must decide whether to legalize marriage equality.
Today’s post includes news about lesbian activists’ protest outside the Vatican in support of mothers’ rights, a controversy over a Hungarian Catholic publisher’s textbook, and more.
LGBTQ+ advocates’ reactions to the Vatican’s latest working document for the Synod on Synodality have been largely positive and hopeful. Today’s post includes some of those reactions, as well as insightful remarks from one LGBTQ-positive cardinal.
In a piece for the National Catholic Reporter, a young gay Catholic has argued that although LGBTQ+ Catholics have received support from Pope Francis, the pontiff must be more radical to heal this harmed community.
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.
A Colorado archbishop has suggested transgender people are responsible for declining church attendance just weeks after he suggested the church was unfairly blamed for heightened anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric that contributed to a mass shooting last year.
A Catholic priest has criticized certain political leaders in Africa for using the criminalization of homosexuality as a diversion from addressing real problems.
A critic has described the decision of Liechtenstein’s archbishop to cancel a Mass for the country’s parliament over marriage equality as “spiritual blackmail.”