Archdiocese of St. Louis Archives

Archdiocese Quits Program to Feed Hungry Kids Over Proposed LGBTQ+ Protections

October 11, 2022/5 Comments/in Gender Identity, Healthcare, Hierarchy, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Politics & Human Rights, Religious Liberty, Schools & Youth /by Grace Doerfler

Proposals to extend federal Title IX protections to LGBTQ+ students are gaining traction in the U.S., which has prompted some Catholic organizations to push back, including one archdiocese that withdrew from a program to feed food-insecure kids. Read More

Theologians Call on Church to Abandon Resistance to Transgender, Intersex People

December 5, 2020/2 Comments/in Gender Identity, Hierarchy, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Theology & Church Teaching, Uncategorized /by Kevin Molloy

Two well-known U.S. Catholic theologians have called on the church to abandon its ill-informed discrimination against transgender and intersex people, and to choose instead to imitate Christ by welcoming and affirming them. Read More

Catholics Criticize New Archdiocesan Guidelines Against Gender Transition

August 27, 2020/3 Comments/in Gender Identity, Healthcare, Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Schools & Youth, Theology & Church Teaching, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Catholics and LGBTQ advocates have negatively appraised a new document from the Archdiocese of St. Louis that issues restrictive guidelines on how the church is to engage transgender people. Read More