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Today’s post includes news about a new book from Pope Francis, reflections on Trans Day of Visibility, and a Catholic high school student’s efforts to stop anti-LGBTQ+ policies.
In the two weeks since Dignitas Infinita, the Vatican’s declaration on human dignity that included negative sections on gender identity and transitions, was released, numerous commentaries about it have been published. Posts yesterday and today have featured some of these commentaries, more of which are included below. For all of Bondings 2.0’s coverage of the declaration and its reception, click here.
Responding to pro-LGBTQ+ critics of the Vatican’s latest declaration, a top U.S. prelate has said the church “listens with the heart of the parent to a child, but it doesn’t believe that the child gets everything they ask for.”
How are transgender and nonbinary Catholics, their families, pastoral ministers, and allies responding to “Dignitas Infinita,” the Vatican document on human dignity released Monday that condemns “gender theory” and “sex change”?
When the Vatican affirmed transgender people could be baptized in 2023, officials were doing so in response to one bishop’s questions about LGBTQ+ people and the Sacraments. Since then, Brazilian newspaper El País profiled that bishop, the details about how the Vatican’s instructions came about, and what the whole story might mean.
Pope Francis has reaffirmed his support for same-gender civil unions, writing that such couples “who live the gift of love an have legal coverage like everyone else.” He made other LGBTQ-positive remarks as he marks eleven years as pope.
Continuing the dissonance between his words on gender and actions, Pope Francis has condemned “gender ideology” as an “ugly ideology of our time.” What are LGBTQ+ Catholics and allies to make of this persistent dissonance?
A Catholic publication has included a transgender woman and other LGBTQ+ advocates in an essay about whether church leaders are actually attentive to issues of gender, in the Synod on Synodality and otherwise.
Today’s post includes story about a Maltese Catholic LGBTQ+ group’s new book, Greek bishops’ opposition to marriage equality, and a gathering of transgender-negative bishops in Prague.
Students and alumni from Catholic schools in Cleveland have continued protests against a new diocesan policy restricting the rights of LGBTQ+ students and staff.