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It’s Time for Catholics to Follow Pope Francis’ Welcome of Transgender People

February 6, 2024/0 Comments/in Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Hierarchy, Higher Education, Marriage & Family, New Ways Ministry, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Politics & Human Rights, Pope Francis, Schools & Youth /by Francis DeBernardo, Editor

Catholics who support LGBTQ+ people are always excited when Pope Francis says something positive. Yet, how often do we follow his example of outreach and support? Read More

Synod Delegates Tell LGBTQ+ People: ‘Let Us Hear Your Voice. Use Us to Amplify It.’

February 5, 2024/1 Comment/in Gender Identity, Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, New Ways Ministry, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Pope Francis, Same-Gender Blessings, Schools & Youth, Synod on Synodality, Theology & Church Teaching /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

"Let us hear your voice. Let us hear your stories. Use us to make sure that it's amplified." This was the exhortation made by a delegate to the Synod on Synodality's General Assembly while speaking to LGBTQ+ Catholics and allies last week. Read More

“God Doesn’t Want You to Be Miserable.”

February 4, 2024/0 Comments/in Scriptural Reflections /by Guest Contributor

What does it mean to have an obligation or purpose to preach the good news? Are we under the same obligation that Paul and Jesus were? Read More

Official Seeks Ban on Pride Flags in Ontario Catholic Schools

February 3, 2024/0 Comments/in Politics & Human Rights, Schools & Youth /by Phoebe Carstens

Controversies over whether Catholic schools in Ontario, Canada, can fly Pride flags continue, as do protests by parents, teachers, and LGBTQ+ students. Read More

Catholic Schools Week: Paving a Queer Way Forward for Ministerial Work

February 2, 2024/6 Comments/in Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Personal Stories, Schools & Youth, Uncategorized /by Guest Contributor

Already, each of us paved our own separate ways through exclusionary sentiments and doctrine in the Church to get to that room. Read More

Catholic Schools Week: The Arc Is Indeed Long

February 1, 2024/3 Comments/in Employment Issues, Schools & Youth /by Michaelangelo Allocca

My own experience with Catholic high schools – an arc of more than forty years – confirms that the direction is indeed towards justice, but that we need to keep working to make the arc bend that way. Read More

Pope Says Most Catholics Will “Gradually” Accept LGBTQ+ Blessings; And More News

January 31, 2024/3 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

As the debate over Fiducia Supplicans continues unabated in 2024, so, too, seem to be Pope Francis' interventions about the declaration, which allows blessings for same-gender couples. Today's post features news about the pope's remarks and other developments. Read More

LGBTQ+ Advocates Forge Ahead in Seeking Inclusion from Synodal Process

January 30, 2024/0 Comments/in New Ways Ministry, Synod on Synodality /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

The countdown to the Synod on Synodality's final global assembly in October 2024 has begun, and there are many questions both about what may change by year's end and if anything has changed already. An article in U.S. Catholic provided some analysis about the Synod and change as it relates to issues of church reform. Read More

Catholic Schools Week: One LGBTQ+ Campus Minister’s Journey to Affirming Work

January 29, 2024/1 Comment/in Employment Issues, Personal Stories, Schools & Youth /by Guest Contributor

I can’t repair injustice in the Church alone, but I can choose to work in places that are more affirming, and depart from the most hostile spaces. Read More

Disrupting the “In Group”

January 28, 2024/2 Comments/in Pope Francis, Scriptural Reflections, Uncategorized /by Angela Howard-McParland

In their view, to be “chosen” means there must be some people who are left out. Full acceptance without discrimination seems to threaten their own inclusion. Read More

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