Cardinal Oswald Gracias Archives

How Are Synod Assembly Participants on LGBTQ+ Issues? — Part I

July 12, 2023/0 Comments/in Anti-LGBTQ Criminalization, Gender Identity, Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Politics & Human Rights, Same-Gender Blessings, Schools & Youth, Synod on Synodality, Theology & Church Teaching, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

This week, New Ways Ministry is announcing a new resource that documents the LGBTQ-related records, good and bad, of Synod assembly participants to help understand how this conversation about inclusion and equality might proceed. Read More

Catholic Officials in India Back Government’s Opposition to Marriage Equality Legalization

April 25, 2023/0 Comments/in Gender Identity, Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, Politics & Human Rights /by Sarah Cassidy

Some Catholic officials in India have affirmed the government's opposition to marriage equality coming from the nation's courts, diverging from several Indiana church leaders' more position stance in recent years. Read More

Pope Francis Names LGBTQ-Positive Members to Council of Cardinals

March 10, 2023/2 Comments/in Hierarchy, Pope Francis, Theology & Church Teaching /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Pope Francis has appointed several new members to his Council of Cardinals who have LGBTQ-positive records, elevating the members to be among the pope's closest advisors. Read More

LGBTQ Advocate Challenges Indian Bishop’s Condemnation of Homosexuality as “Unnatural”

October 12, 2020/1 Comment/in Anti-LGBTQ Criminalization, Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, Politics & Human Rights /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

An Indian LGBTQ advocate has challenged one of the nation's bishops for claiming homosexuality is unnatural and for opposing marriage equality, an issue now pending in India's legal system. Read More

Indian Catholics Celebrate Launch of New LGBTQ Ministry Supported by Top Cardinal

October 17, 2019/1 Comment/in Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Catholics in India are celebrating the launch of a new LGBTQ ministry that has the support of a top cardinal who happens to be a close advisor of Pope Francis. Read More

Cardinal Blesses Hotline to Help LGBT Catholics, Allies Struggling with Faith

November 5, 2018/2 Comments/in Hierarchy, Parish Life & Pastoral Care /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

One of India's top Catholic leaders has given his blessing to an LGBT hotline to help struggling Catholics and promised to encourage clergy to be more compassionate toward LGBT people. Read More

Cardinal: ‘LGBT’ Will Not Be in Synod Final Report, But ‘Sexual Orientation’ Might Be

October 27, 2018/5 Comments/in Hierarchy /by Francis DeBernardo, Editor

Crux has published an interview with India's Cardinal Oswald Gracias in which he gives some insights into what the synod's final report might be saying, based on what he has read in the draft. Read More

India’s Cardinal Supported Striking Down Gay Ban Before the Court Did

September 11, 2018/2 Comments/in Anti-LGBTQ Criminalization, Hierarchy, Politics & Human Rights /by Francis DeBernardo, Editor

Last week's wonderful news that India's Supreme Court decriminalized consensual sex between adults, in effect decriminalizing lesbian and gay relations, has rightly been received by accolades from around the globe. The only religious leader in India who spoke out for the rights of these sexual minorities was Cardinal Oswald Gracias, archbishop of Bombay Read More