Ethics Archives - New Ways Ministry

Feminist Liturgies Book Offers Resources for LGBTQ Prayer Events

July 29, 2020/2 Comments/in Arts, Books & Culture, Parish Life & Pastoral Care /by Francis DeBernardo, Editor

If you would like to organize a liturgy or prayer service in your parish or faith community that celebrates the gifts of LGBTQ people, a new resource provides some guidance and inspiration. Read More

Thousands of German Religious Educators Call for Rethinking of Church Teachings on Sexuality

July 3, 2019/1 Comment/in Hierarchy, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Schools & Youth, Theology & Church Teaching, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Ahead of the German church's upcoming synodal process, an organization representing thousands of religious educators in Germany has called for the Catholic Church to reconsider its teachings on sexual morality, more specifically on homosexuality. Read More

German Bishop Shifts Position, Calls for Church to Rethink Teachings on Homosexuality

February 11, 2019/1 Comment/in Hierarchy, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Theology & Church Teaching, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Significantly shifting his position, a German bishop has called for the Church to rethink its teachings on homosexuality and condemned problematic aspects of those teachings which have caused people harm. Read More

Church Teaching on Sexuality and Gender Must Reflect LGBT People’s Realities, Says Theologian

January 5, 2019/2 Comments/in Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Theology & Church Teaching /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

The Catholic Church must treat LGBT people as a reality and develop a theology of sex and gender that reflects that reality, wrote a theologian at Fordham University. Read More