Upcoming Programs

Sunday, February 25, 2024, 4:00 p.m. Eastern U.S. Time, On Zoom

The Vatican’s groundbreaking declaration Fiducia Supplicans, which allowing blessings for queer couples has been welcomed by many LGBTQ+ Catholics as a small but significant step forward. While accepted by some bishops, it has been challenged by others.

Join New Ways Ministry for a webinar on the complex reception of Fiducia Supplicans with Xavier Montecel, a theologian who studies the interaction of liturgy and ethics; Yunuen Trujillo, who works on pastoral outreach to LGBTQ+ Catholics; and SimonMary Aikhiokai, a theologian who studies religion, race, and decolonization across multiple contexts.

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Previous 2024 Programs

A Reasoned Hope with Fr. James Alison

A Retreat for LGBTQ+ people, family, friends, and pastoral ministers

February 16-18, 2024, Siena Retreat Center, Racine, WI (near Milwaukee airport)

The retreat will focus on helping LGBTQ+ believers, their friends, and allies recover a sense of hope. In addition to time for prayer, silence, discussion, and participation in the Sacraments, Fr. James will share a vision of highly positive happenings in the global Church and discuss how growing into truthfulness as LGBTQ+ people and allies is intimately connected to basic Christianity.

For freedom Christ has set us free with Fr. James Alison

A Retreat for Gay Priests, Brothers, and Deacons

February 19-22, 2024 (Monday to Thursday) | Siena Retreat Center, Racine, WI (near Milwaukee airport)

The retreat will help participants to see and experience some of the ways that Christ does in fact set us free: as humans, as gay men, and as church representatives.

Retreatants will examine methods to help negotiate our way into living more fully in the post-clerical Church which is coming upon us all. Our roles, talents, and commitments are taking an ever more relational and ever less juridical turn, and our vocations are being understood very differently from anything we imagined when we entered the clergy or religious life.