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“The guidelines will do real harm not just to trans and intersex students and families, or even LGBQ students and families, but all students and families. The document gets so much wrong about sex and gender—including how straight and cisgender people live in the world. “
“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.”
Catholics have been expressing their support for the Equality Act, which passed the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this week, defying episcopal opposition with a pro-LGBTQ faith witness.
Though we are surrounded by images of perfect family celebrations for Thanksgiving and Christmas, it is impossible to ignore the pain so many of us hold inside, as we go about our business, doing our best to maintain the positive outward appearance that the season seems to demand. My heart goes out to those families who struggle through the holidays.
How welcoming are welcoming parishes really?
At the closing Mass of the World Meeting of Families here in Dublin’s Phoenix Park, it has been announced that among the handful of families who will be in the offertory procession will be ” a family involved in the “All Are Welcome” Mass in Avila, in Donnybrook, Dublin.”
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