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You Feel It in Your Bowels

Grace and nature, redemption and obedience: these are knit together in the sinews of your trans body. Read More

Catholic Parents Sue for Right to Mistreat Transgender Child Based on Religious Belief

Once again, Catholics are central in U.S. court cases which could be detrimental to LGBTQ+ people and their rights. Two parents have appealed to the country's Supreme Court to defend what they claim is a right to misgender their transgender child. Read More

Church Must Be Patient, Serve Lovingly As Understandings of Gender Develop

“God made male and female, yes. But God made day and night, too, as well as dawn and dusk,” writes Nathan Schneider in a recent America article pushing back against Catholic denunciations of so-called “gender ideology.” Read More

Are Trans Catholics Welcome in the Church? This May Not Be the Right Question.

Perhaps this Advent season is a time to listen and amplify the voices of those on the margins, to allow those trans Catholic voices crying out to be heard by the wider church. Read More

Saint Mary’s College Announces New Transgender Admissions Policy

Saint Mary’s College, a women’s college in Indiana, has updated its admissions policy to be more inclusive of transgender applicants. Read More

Diocese of Davenport’s New LGBTQ+ Guidelines Model Synodality in Action

The Diocese of Davenport's new guidelines on LGBTQ+ pastoral care are "strikingly positive," and could possibly "shift the trend of transgender-negative diocesan policies in the U.S.," contends Robert Shine, associate director of New Ways Ministry. Read More

Trans Inclusion Is Not Enough for True Synodality

Against this idea, some Catholics claim that those of us who are trans should find our identity in Christ over and against our other identities. Under this view, we should participate in synodality not on the basis of diversity as ‘trans people,’ but simply as ‘Catholics’. However, neither of these approaches properly contextualise transness. Read More

Davenport Diocese Releases Positive Framework for LGBTQ+ Pastoral Care

The Diocese of Davenport has released a new framework on LGBTQ+ pastoral care, specifically about gender identity issues, that charts a new direction for such policies in the U.S. Read More

Cleveland Diocese’s New Gender Policy Is “Dangerous,” Say Catholic Protestors

Ohio Catholics have strongly criticized a new restrictive diocesan gender policy which threatens to ban LGBTQ+ people and allies from participation in the church should they act in an "inappropriate or scandalous way." Read More

Catholic Theology Needs Greater Respect for Bodily Autonomy, Writes Therapist

While Thompson knows that “Catholics are supposed to believe” in the gender binary of only male and female, she cannot support this understanding. For her, that binary has been used as a form of control, power, and suppression. Read More