Diocese of San Diego Archives - New Ways Ministry

In San Diego, Bishop Apologizes to LGBTQ+ Community During Pride Mass

September 9, 2024/1 Comment/in Hierarchy, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Theology & Church Teaching /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

In a hopeful sign for LGBTQ+ ministry, six parishes in the Diocese of San Diego celebrated an “All Are Welcome” Mass this summer. At the liturgy, a local bishop apologized to the LGBTQ+ community on behalf of the church and encouraged greater love and inclusion. Read More

Cardinal McElroy Calls Anti-LGBTQ+ Spirit a “Demonic Mystery” in Call for Inclusion

February 14, 2023/9 Comments/in Gender Identity, Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Synod on Synodality, Theology & Church Teaching, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

The church needs to embark on a journey of radical inclusion, wrote a top U.S. church leader in a new essay that suggests the "profound and visceral animus" towards LGBTQ+ people in the church is a "demonic mystery of the human soul." Read More

Bishop Rejects Claims of Gay Subculture in Diocese, But Falls Short of Universal Denial

January 19, 2019/2 Comments/in Employment Issues, Hierarchy, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

The bishop of San Diego has rejected parishioners' claims that a gay subculture exists among the diocese's priests and seminarians and refused to blame the clergy sexual abuse scandal on gay priests. Read More

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