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Whither Our Easter Joy?

May 24, 2020/3 Comments/in Scriptural Reflections /by Guest Contributor

This week, as with the many weeks of our lives, the Gospel invites us to identify with the disciples as they learn from Jesus. But this week things are very different. Jesus is saying goodbye. Read More

In Times of Uncertainty, We Turn to Jesus: The Way, The Truth, The Life

May 10, 2020/1 Comment/in Employment Issues, Gender Identity, Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Personal Stories, Scriptural Reflections /by Michael Sennett

On this Fifth Sunday of Easter, Michael Sennett reflects on how do we answer Jesus’ call to move forward in the storm of COVID-19 and a church that fails to include LGBTQ people if we do not know the way? Read More

In New Memoir, Comedian Cameron Esposito Digs into Queer Liberation, Catholic Upbringing

May 4, 2020/1 Comment/in Arts, Books & Culture, Personal Stories, Uncategorized /by Catherine Buck

Cameron Esposito’s new memoir Save Yourself is the story she needed when she was younger. The lesbian comedian tracks the story of her Catholic upbringing and queer liberation, including an early interest in the priesthood and majoring in theology at a Catholic university Read More

Devastation and Sacrament on the Road to Emmaus

April 26, 2020/5 Comments/in Personal Stories, Scriptural Reflections, Uncategorized /by Allison Connelly-Vetter

I have to admit, I felt like the Easter Grinch during the last few weeks of Lent, convinced that with all the pain and suffering in the world right now, Christ would stay in the tomb this time. After reflecting on today’s Gospel story of the Emmaus encounter, it brings me comfort to wonder if the disciples felt the same way that I feel now. Read More

Easter Sunday: He Is Risen as He Said!

April 12, 2020/0 Comments/in Parish Life & Pastoral Care /by Francis DeBernardo, Editor

An Easter poem for LGBTQ Catholics and allies. Read More

Easter Blessings to You!

April 1, 2018/0 Comments/in Parish Life & Pastoral Care /by Francis DeBernardo, Editor

"I believe that God really has dived down into the bottom of creation, and has come up bringing the whole redeemed nature on his shoulders." Read More