Bishop Thomas Paprocki Archives

Catholics Decry Ugandan Bishops’ Tacit Support for Anti-LGBTQ+ Law

July 11, 2023/1 Comment/in Anti-LGBTQ Criminalization, Hierarchy, Politics & Human Rights, Uncategorized /by Ariell Watson Simon

Catholic LGBTQ+ leaders have continued calls for Uganda's bishops to condemn legislation passed earlier this year that further criminalizes LGBTQ+ people. One U.S. bishop, however, has defended the new law. Read More

Catholic School Backtracks on Assurance that LGBTQ Teacher Would Not Be Fired

April 5, 2022/4 Comments/in Employment Issues, Schools & Youth /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

A church worker has claimed she was fired from a Catholic school over her same-gender marriage, even while she had been assured the marriage would not be a problem. Read More

Highly LGBTQ-Negative Bishops Up for Elections to USCCB Leadership Next Week

November 12, 2021/5 Comments/in Hierarchy, Politics & Human Rights, Religious Liberty /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

With the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' (USCCB) meeting in Baltimore approaching next week, most attention has been on whether the bishops will approve a controversial document on the Eucharist. But there will also be some key committee chair elections occurring, and candidates include some of the most LGBTQ-negative church leaders in the U.S. Read More

Transgender Advocate Sr. Luisa Derouen Criticizes Bishop Paprocki’s New Gender Policy

March 17, 2020/2 Comments/in Employment Issues, Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Hierarchy, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Schools & Youth /by Melissa Feito

Sr. Luisa Derouen, a member of the Dominican Sisters of Peace and long time spiritual companion to transgender people, has published an essay reacting to Bishop Thomas Paprocki’s controversial, transphobic policy published in January. Read More

Catholics Pushback Against Bishop Paprocki’s Policy Against Transgender Church Workers, Students

February 15, 2020/3 Comments/in Employment Issues, Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Healthcare, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Schools & Youth /by Melissa Feito

LGBTQ Catholics and allies are responding critically to a new transgender policy set by the Diocese of Springfield’s Bishop Thomas Paprocki. Read More

Jamie Manson: New Diocesan Policy ‘Puts Transgender Folks in Bishops’ Crosshairs’

February 14, 2020/3 Comments/in Employment Issues, Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Healthcare, Hierarchy, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Schools & Youth, Theology & Church Teaching /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

National Catholic Reporter columnist Jamie Manson has responded to Springfield Bishop Thomas Paprocki's new anti-transgender policy by suggesting the bishops are putting "trans folks in their crosshairs." Read More

Bishop Paprocki Threatens Transgender Church Workers, Catholic School Students in New Policy

February 10, 2020/13 Comments/in Employment Issues, Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Healthcare, Hierarchy, Politics & Human Rights, Schools & Youth, Theology & Church Teaching, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

A new policy in the Diocese of Springfield (Illinois) outlines the repressive approach to gender identity issues mandated by Bishop Thomas Paprocki, including threats against LGBTQ church workers and students in Catholic schools. Read More

Conservative Bishops Endorse Criticism of Fr. James Martin’s LGBT Ministry

September 25, 2019/4 Comments/in Hierarchy, Higher Education, Parish Life & Pastoral Care /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Conservative bishops in the U.S. have endorsed Archbishop Charles Chaput's criticism of Fr. James Martin, SJ, and his LGBT ministry, criticism on which the archbishop has doubled down. Read More

What Would Cause a Catholic Pastor to Burn a Rainbow Flag?

September 21, 2018/11 Comments/in Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care /by Francis DeBernardo, Editor

I would like to propose that another cause be considered about why Fr. Paul Kalchik decided to burn a rainbow flag: I think that the current climate in Catholic Church and civil society has reached such a hateful pitch that hateful displays are the logical result. Read More

On Bishops’ Decrees Against Gay Catholics’ Funerals, the Real Scandal Is Discrimination

January 17, 2018/4 Comments/in Hierarchy, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Theology & Church Teaching, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Two U.S. bishops' decrees that would deny funerals to Catholics in same-gender marriages were worried such celebrations would cause public scandal. But theologians Todd A. Salzman and Michael G. Lawler argued in the National Catholic Reporter that the real scandal is the decrees themselves. Read More

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