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Diocesan Survey Finds 86% of Catholics Seek Change in Church Teaching on Homosexuality
Listening sessions in an Irish diocese have found an overwhelmingly majority of Catholics there supporting changing the church’s teachings on homosexuality, a finding that is “signs of life” according to one former priest and could enable a new future for the church.
Catholics Rally Against Bishop Who Warned Pride Celebrations Harm Children
Catholics in Rhode Island rallied this weekend against their local bishop for claiming children would be at risk if they attended Pride celebrations, causing the bishop to then offer a partial apology for his tweet. Unfortunately, the controversy has not ended.
Priest Opposed to Conversion Therapy Ban Admits He Was Not Authorized to Speak for Church
A Colorado priest who testified against the state’s conversion therapy bill which is set to be signed into law today has admitted that despite his claims, he was not authorized to speak on behalf of the Catholic Church.
The Best Catholic LGBT News Events of 2018
To end 2018 on a positive note, we present to you the results of the Bondings 2.0’s readers poll of the Best Catholic LGBT News Events of 2018.
Who’s Who? A Look at the LGBT Records of Global Bishops at the Synod on Youth
With the Synod on Youth now underway in Rome, Bondings 2.0 explores the LGBT records of a sampling of delegates from outside the U.S. The following bishops are just some of the 300-plus delegates participating in the Synod (a full list available here). It is unclear if and how LGBT issues will be addressed, who might be the key bishops involved in any discussion, and whether there will be positive outcomes.
Tech Company Withdraws from World Meeting of Families, Prompting Calls for More Withdrawals
A technology company has withdrawn its participation in the World Meeting of Families (WMF) over the exclusion of LGBT groups, prompting calls for other organizations to do likewise as the event gets underway.
LGBT Controversies Remain as World Meeting of Families Approaches Next Week
In five days, some 37,000 people will gather to begin the 2018 World Meeting of Families (WMF) and it seems there will be some progress on LGBT issues, but certainly not as far as many Catholics hoped.
Pro-LGBT Irish Catholics Claim Discrimination by World Meeting of Families
We Are Church Ireland has claimed organizers of the upcoming World Meeting of Families are discriminating against the group because of its reform-minded views, including on LGBT equality.
CATHOLIC LGBT HISTORY: Canadian Catholics Write a Pastoral Letter to Their Archbishop
On June 5, 1994, the Feast of Corpus Christi that year, a Canadian coalition of Christian organizations wrote a pastoral letter to Archbishop Aloysius Ambrozic of Toronto requesting that he drop his opposition to the Equality Rights Statute Amendment Act, known as Bill 167, which would have provided same-sex couples in Ontario with the same rights and obligations of heterosexually married couples.