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Gender and Sexuality Affect Every Person. The Synod Must Address This Reality.

October 14, 2023/3 Comments/in Anti-LGBTQ Criminalization, Employment Issues, Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Healthcare, Hierarchy, Higher Education, LGBTQ Clergy & Religious, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Politics & Human Rights, Same-Gender Blessings, Schools & Youth, Synod on Synodality, Theology & Church Teaching /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Gender and sexuality must be taken up by the church universal in a more enlightened, substantive, dialogical way. The Synod assembly risks failure if it avoids full examinations of such core questions. Read More

“We Need to Talk”

July 23, 2021/7 Comments/in Hierarchy, Pope Francis, Same-Gender Blessings, Theology & Church Teaching, Uncategorized /by Guest Contributor

So what might an adult conversation between the institutional Church and LGBTQ Catholics look like? Read More

Netflix’s “Queer Eye” Series Shows Working of Grace, Can Lead to Moments of Encounter

August 19, 2019/3 Comments/in Arts, Books & Culture, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Queer Eye, Netflix's television series where five gay men provide life makeovers for clients in often dramatic ways, is, in one reviewer's words, "probably the strongest and most vivid representation currently on display in popular culture of how grace works." Read More

Second Vatican Document on Gender Expected, Even As Cardinal Admits Failure to Listen

June 18, 2019/6 Comments/in Gender Identity, Hierarchy, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

It is being reported that a second document on gender is being prepared by the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine (CDF) of the Faith, even as the cardinal behind the first document released last week acknowledged flaws in it. Read More

QUOTE TO NOTE: Pope Francis on Respecting Consciences

November 5, 2017/4 Comments/in Pope Francis /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Addressing new bishops in September, Pope Francis invited them to be more respectful of people's consciences and address their concrete realities rather than just pontificating theory. He told those gathered. . . Read More

More Bishops Offer Support for Fr. James Martin’s LGBT Book

October 17, 2017/2 Comments/in Hierarchy, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

More bishops have offered their support for Fr. James Martin, SJ's book on LGBT issues in the church, Building a Bridge, though not all episcopal reviews have been positive. Read More

Are All Voices Welcome in the LGBT Conversation?

October 11, 2017/4 Comments/in Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Theology & Church Teaching /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Right-wing Catholic groups have targeted LGBT people and affirming organizations in the church for many years, launching critical and even dehumanizing campaigns against them. There is new attention being given to such groups and the harmful impact they have on the church. But in a conversation where all should be welcomed, how can Catholics respond to this damaging hate? Read More

Cardinal Blase Cupich Invites LGBT Catholics to Dialogue, Seeks to Learn from Their Lives

October 3, 2017/7 Comments/in Hierarchy, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Theology & Church Teaching /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

A ranking U.S. cardinal has invited LGBT Catholics to dialogue, saying he wants to "know more about what's happening in their life." According to the National Catholic Reporter, Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago told attendees at a lecture he was delivering. . . Read More

Bishop McElroy: Right Wing Attacks on LGBT Issues a “Wake-Up Call” for Catholics

September 20, 2017/6 Comments/in Hierarchy, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Theology & Church Teaching, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Right wing attacks on Jesuit Fr. James Martin’s views on LGBT issues should be a... Read More

Catholicism and the Disappearing Middle Ground on LGBT Rights

October 20, 2016/2 Comments/in Politics & Human Rights, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

By Bob Shine, New Ways Ministry, October 20, 2016 Is a middle ground on LGBT... Read More

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