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Love Means More…Or Less

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The U.S. bishops' "Love Means More" initiative is much less about having fruitful conversation about love and life, intimacy and commitment, than it is about providing simplistic answers to complex questions and pat refutations of people’s experiences. Read More

What If Queer Chosen Families Are Cornerstones for God’s Kin-dom?

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What if God is inviting us to build something much more wonderful: an interdependent kin-dom in which all of our gifts are used, and all of our needs are met? Read More

Is the Church a “Family”?

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The point of this grim litany is to suggest that the metaphors of “home” and “family” cannot be innocently invoked by a Church that seeks to welcome LGBTQ people. Read More

A Great Flowering Tree in the Center of a Hoop

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One of my greatest regrets with my father’s passing was that I was never able to truly come out to him as gay. Read More

Finding God and Resurrection in Queer Marriages and Intimacies

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I have come to love the puzzling marriage and family texts from the Gospels, for, in responding, they present opportunities for Queer Catholics to contribute to conversations about the lived experience of marriage and family. Read More

Married Gay Couple Preaches at Mass About the Miracles of Parenting and Their Parish

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Parishioners at Old St. Patrick’s Church in Chicago gathered for Mass on Father’s Day weekend listened as two married gay men offered a reflection at Mass together. Read More

“Amoris Laetitia”: Church Thinking Needs to Move from the Abstract to the Particular

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How do these forms of LGBTQ erasure and dehumanization come to exist in a teaching document written within the last five years? Read More

Pope Francis Tells Parents of LGBTQ Children: “Never Condemn a Child”

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Pope Francis has made supportive remarks for parents of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer children, saying further that the parents must not condemn their children. Read More

Catholic Parents Seek to “Put a Human Face” on Transgender Conversations in Church

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For Deacon Ray Dever and his family, supporting a transgender family member is deeply consonant with their Catholic faith. Read More

Stuck on Sex: Rethinking Parenthood Beyond the Sex-First Paradigm

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While I don’t find the legal arguments particularly exciting, what does fascinate me is how little the arguments in this case had to do with the actual work of parenting. Read More