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This month, it has seemed that so much of what we cover on Bondings 2.0 is negative news regarding Pride. For this final week of Pride Month, we are instead highlighting in a series of posts titled “How Catholics Celebrate Pride” all the good ways that the people of God are celebrating queerness and advocating for equality.
The Sisters of Mercy have released a statement of solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community for Pride Month, the latest step on the congregation’s committed path to building queer inclusion.
Students in one Canadian Catholic school district walked out of classes last week to protest district officials’ decision not to fly the Pride flag this month. Today’s post includes that news and other LGBTQ-related stories from Canada’s Catholic schools.
LGBTQ+ advocates in Pittsburgh are criticizing the cancellation of a Pride Mass that was requested by the bishop, though some of the advocates say this moment presents an opportunity, too.
The question of whether or not to fly Pride flags at Canadian Catholic schools this month continues to roil districts. Most recently, a top official in one district has compared the Pride flag to Nazism, while in another the school board voted to not fly the flag at all.
Today’s post contains news about a Pride message sent out by Bishop John Stowe, new writings by LGBTQ+ Catholics, and more.
Let’s show the world that Catholics know how to celebrate Pride!
Then the Holy Spirit burst forth—at Pentecost and at Pride. In Jerusalem, the disciples of Jesus spoke in tongues. At Stonewall, the friends of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera threw bricks.
Ontario’s education minister and a leading Canadian newspaper have publicly defended the flying of Pride flags and other supports for LGBTQ+ students in the province’s Catholic schools after a heated dispute on the issue last month.
Students and staff at the Australian Catholic University (ACU) are pushing back after the university directed librarians to remove rainbow Pride flags from public display on the institution’s campuses.