The WORST Catholic LGBTQ News Stories of 2019
Today we provide the results of the top 10 worst news events, and tomorrow we will close out the year with the top ten best.
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Today we provide the results of the top 10 worst news events, and tomorrow we will close out the year with the top ten best.
Isn’t public opinion on LGBTQ people improving? The complicated answer holds some surprising lessons for…
Today’s post includes stories about how Catholic women in Switzerland are standing for marriage equality and LGBT+ Catholics in England celebrated twenty years of ministry during Pride.
Two English dioceses are apologizing after an anti-LGBTQ leaflet was distributed to students in Catholic schools. Today’s post features this story and two other news items from the realm of Catholic education.
Catholic bishops have an authority crisis that seemingly intensifies daily as more LGBTQ church workers are fired and new cover ups of clergy sexual abuse are revealed. One Catholic leader has a suggestion for them: stop preaching about sexuality and gender for a year.
Today’s post is from guest contributor Alfred Pang who writes about what the Vatican’s new document on gender means for LGBTQ teachers in Catholic education. What is at stake? The vocation of teaching and the integrity of LGBTQ people.
The U.S. bishops’ top official on education has welcomed a new Vatican document on gender, “Male and Female He Created Them,” which has prompted condemnation from LGBTQ advocates.
Transgender Catholics and their parents have been sharply critical of a new Vatican document on gender, “Male and Female He Created Them,” released last Monday.
“As the parent of a transgender daughter and as a deacon whose ministry includes pastoral care to Catholic families with transgender members, it is painfully apparent that the document is totally divorced from the lived reality of transgender people.”
A recent essay by Eloise Blondiau in Vox looks at the lives of several transgender Catholics who are living in a space one of them calls ‘doctrinal limbo.’ While the Vatican has been definitive on sexual prohibitions for gay and lesbian people, there remains “no universal church teachings on transgender identity,” says Blondiau, who is a producer for America Media, a Jesuit company.