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Baltimore Archdiocese Cancels Trans Workshop Fearing Protests; And More News

March 4, 2023/4 Comments/in Gender Identity, Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Politics & Human Rights, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

The Archdiocese of Baltimore cancelled a planned transgender workshop after protestors threatened to disrupt it. Today's post includes this story and other Catholic LGBTQ+ news. Read More

Two Catholic Theologians Debate Whether “Gender Theory” Is a Threat or Opportunity

March 3, 2023/2 Comments/in Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Pope Francis, Schools & Youth, Theology & Church Teaching /by Ariell Watson Simon

America recently invited two Catholic theologians back to continue a conversation about gender identity, which they began in the same publication late last year. Read More

LGBTQ+ Groups Again Denied Entrance to Staten Island St. Patrick’s Day Parade

March 2, 2023/1 Comment/in Politics & Human Rights /by Anushah Sajwani

LGBTQ+ organizations have once again been denied entrance to march in Staten Island’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade, following a pattern of exclusion the parade has exhibited for several years. Read More

Lansing Diocese Encourages Parishes to End Scouting Affiliations Over LGBTQ+ Support

March 1, 2023/5 Comments/in Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Religious Liberty, Schools & Youth, Uncategorized /by Andru Zodrow

The Diocese of Lansing, Michigan, has encouraged parishes to disassociate from Scouts BSA because the scouting organization no longer provides an exemption for religious organizational sponsors of scout groups to exclude young people’s whose “personal beliefs” conflict with the sponsoring group. Read More

Leading Catholic Newspaper Condemns Transgender-Negative Diocesan Policies

February 28, 2023/4 Comments/in Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Schools & Youth /by Sarah Cassidy

A leading U.S. Catholic newspaper has announced its opposition to diocesan gender policies that negate the experiences of transgender and nonbinary people. Read More

Vote Now: Give Pope Francis a Grade on LGBTQ+ Issues

February 27, 2023/8 Comments/in Pope Francis /by Francis DeBernardo, Editor

We are asking that you simply answer one question on our response form: What kind of grade would you give Pope Francis on LGBTQ+ topics? Read More

How Adam and Eve’s Fig Leaves Cover Up the Fall’s Real Meaning

February 26, 2023/10 Comments/in Scriptural Reflections /by Michaelangelo Allocca

Although intended to hide the sex organs of Adam and Eve, those fig-leaf Fruit-of-the-Looms managed to focus attention on them. The only thing they covered up was the real meaning of the story. Read More

Ugandan Bishop Uses Ash Wednesday Liturgy to Condemn Homosexuality

February 25, 2023/4 Comments/in Anti-LGBTQ Criminalization, Hierarchy, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Politics & Human Rights /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

A Ugandan bishop used a liturgy for Ash Wednesday to condemn homosexuality, coming just weeks after Pope Francis' denunciation of criminalization laws that remain in effect in that country. Read More

New Article Examines Role LGBTQ+ Issues Play in Exodus of Catholics from the Church

February 24, 2023/4 Comments/in Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care /by Angela Howard-McParland

In a recent article, Don Clemmer explores how understandings of identity, particularly for LGBTQ+ Catholics, play a role in the exodus of people leaving the Catholic Church. Read More

French Archbishop: Pope Francis Is on the Side of LGB People and Their Families

February 23, 2023/3 Comments/in Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Pope Francis /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Archbishop Hervé Giraud of Sens-Auxerre in France has offered an appraisal of Francis' approach to homosexuality. Read More

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