The Worst of 2011: Year in Review, Part 1
2011 is coming to a close, so it’s proper that we should look back over…
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2011 is coming to a close, so it’s proper that we should look back over…
There’s an interesting discussion happening over at America‘s blog, thanks to a posting by Michael…
The debate over Fiducia Supplicans, the Vatican’s declaration allowing blessings for couples in situations deemed “irregular”y by church leaders, has prompted once LGBTQ+ Catholic to reflect on not only same-gender love, but all forms of love not fully embraced by the church.
In his latest remarks about blessing same-gender couples, Pope Francis criticized as hypocrites those faithful who seem to negatively obsess about LGBTQ+ people, while ignoring the world’s real injustices. Today’s post includes this news and more updates on the reception of Fiducia Supplicans that remains ongoing.
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.
In a year of ups and downs for Catholic LGBTQ+ people, what were the worst of the downs?
Today’s post highlights positive responses from around the world to the Vatican’s declaration allowing blessings for same-gender couples.
In Pope Francis’ nearly-eleven year tenure, perhaps nothing he has done has prompted so many responses in such a short time as approving blessings for same-gender couples. Within a day or two of the Vatican declaration on blessings, titled Fiducia Supplicans, being released, dozens, if not hundreds, of church leaders and other Catholics spoke out—and strongly.
In a moment once unimaginable, Sister Jeannine Gramick, SL, met with Pope Francis today at the Vatican.
Catholic leaders in Malawi organized and led an interfaith protest against LGBTQ+ rights as the nation’s criminalization laws currently face a court challenge, while bishops in Cote d’Ivoire decried the country’s more permissive laws on LGBTQ+ rights.