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Complicating Catholic Understandings of Sex and Gender

Respecting LGBTQI people should be a “fairly simple thing to do,” as Jesuit Fr. James Martin remarked... Read More

Can LGBT Issues Be Included at San Diego’s Diocesan Synod?

Following Pope Francis’ lead, Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego has called a diocesan synod... Read More

Archdiocese Denies Same-Gender Catholic Couple the ‘Freedom to Bury’

A Catholic cemetery refused a same-gender couple’s headstone design because officials say its symbols conflict... Read More

Fr. James Martin: Respecting Transgender People “Fairly Simple Thing to Do”

Jesuit Fr. James Martin again affirmed LGBT inclusion, saying transgender people using restrooms according to their... Read More

Top Cardinal: Transgender Rights Are ‘Demonic’; Marriage Equality Is ‘Poison’

A top cardinal at the Vatican attacked transgender civil rights as “demonic” and compared marriage equality to “poison” during... Read More

Are Already Absent LGBT Voices Being Further Silenced in Conversations About ‘Amoris Laetitia’?

  Have Catholics’ analyses of Amoris Laetitia, the recently published exhortation on family by Pope Francis, been... Read More

Catholics Weigh In On Obama Administration’s Directive for Schools’ Bathrooms

Catholics have entered the national debate concerning transgender people using the bathroom of their identified... Read More

Strongly Catholic Philippines Elects Its First Transgender Lawmaker

The heavily Catholic nation of the Philippines this week elected their first transgender person to the... Read More

Key Figures in Transgender Teacher Story Reflect on Their Experiences

Three of the main figures in the recent story about a Catholic school’s decision to... Read More

Thank the Sisters and Archbishop for Protecting the Job of Transgender Teacher

San Francisco’s Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone has issued a statement which indicates that he will not... Read More