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3,000+ Catholics Sign New Ways Ministry’s Pledge to Bless Same-Gender Couples

March 30, 2021/3 Comments/in Employment Issues, Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Pope Francis, Same-Gender Blessings, Theology & Church Teaching /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

The largest single protest by Catholics against the Vatican's ban on blessing same-gender unions has been published online with over 3,000 people participating, including over 100 theologians. Read More

Bishops Side with Trump Administration in New Assault on LGBTQ Healthcare Rights

May 9, 2019/2 Comments/in Gender Identity, Healthcare, Hierarchy, Politics & Human Rights, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Top bishops in the United States have applauded a new Trump administration healthcare rule that has alarmed LGBTQ advocates, once again raising the question of why the nation's hierarchy so quickly opposes nearly every step towards LGBTQ equality. Read More

Navigating the Difficult Passage Between Conscience and Justice

July 20, 2018/2 Comments/in Politics & Human Rights, Religious Liberty, Uncategorized /by Cristina Traina

Responses to the Supreme Court’s Masterpiece Cakeshop decision are generating a library’s worth of commentary,... Read More

Reviving the Role of Conscience in Catholic LGBT Discussions

January 20, 2018/6 Comments/in Hierarchy, Theology & Church Teaching /by Francis DeBernardo, Editor

"Deep within his conscience man discovers a law which he has not laid upon himself but which he must obey. Its voice, ever calling him to love and to do what is good and to avoid evil, sounds in his heart at the right moment. . . . For man has in his heart a law inscribed by God. . . . His conscience is man's most secret core and his sanctuary. There he is alone with God whose voice echoes in his depths." Read More

3,000+ Catholics Sign New Ways Ministry’s Pledge to Bless Same-Gender Couples

Bishops Side with Trump Administration in New Assault on LGBTQ Healthcare Rights

Navigating the Difficult Passage Between Conscience and Justice

Reviving the Role of Conscience in Catholic LGBT Discussions

QUOTE TO NOTE: Pope Francis on Respecting Consciences

Conscience, Yes. But a Common Understanding of It in the Age of Pope Francis? Not Yet.

Pope Francis Calling on African Bishops to Oppose LGBT Discrimination, Says Theologian

Archdiocese of New Orleans' Missing LGBT Webpage Mystery Is Partially Solved, But Questions Remain

SYNOD: Belgian Bishop's Hope: Restore Conscience to Its Rightful Place

QUOTE TO NOTE: Pope Francis on Freedom & Conscience

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