The future of LGBTQ+ ministry in the Catholic Church has been made easier by the courageous and compassionate statements and actions of people like Cardinal Oswald Gracias. Read More
This month, Bondings 2.0 will be reporting live from Rome as the final General Assembly of the Synod on Synodality meets. Today's post covers a penitential prayer service held Tuesday and what it might portend for LGBTQ+ issues and the Synod. Read More
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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