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

December 14, 2023/2 Comments/in Gender Identity, Politics & Human Rights, Theology & Church Teaching /by Ariell Watson Simon

“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.

December 11, 2023/4 Comments/in Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Healthcare, Hierarchy, LGBTQ Clergy & Religious, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Politics & Human Rights, Schools & Youth, Theology & Church Teaching /by Guest Contributor

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

December 8, 2023/2 Comments/in Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Higher Education, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Schools & Youth, Uncategorized /by Phoebe Carstens

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

October 16, 2023/1 Comment/in Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Marriage & Family, New Ways Ministry, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Schools & Youth, Synod on Synodality, Theology & Church Teaching /by Francis DeBernardo, Editor

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

October 15, 2023/3 Comments/in Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Synod on Synodality, Theology & Church Teaching /by Guest Contributor

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

October 7, 2023/2 Comments/in Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Healthcare, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Schools & Youth, Synod on Synodality, Theology & Church Teaching /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

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

September 21, 2023/5 Comments/in Employment Issues, Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Schools & Youth /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

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

September 18, 2023/0 Comments/in Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Healthcare, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Politics & Human Rights, Schools & Youth, Theology & Church Teaching /by Sarah Cassidy

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

Youth Patient Allegedly Denied Care by Catholic Medical Group Because She Is Transgender

September 7, 2023/0 Comments/in Gender Identity, Healthcare, Politics & Human Rights, Religious Liberty, Schools & Youth /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

A Catholic healthcare group has denied care to a young patient based on her gender identity with one doctor allegedly telling her mother, "We don't see transgendered patients in this clinic." Read More

What Disability Theology Can Teach the Church About Transgender Identities

August 19, 2023/0 Comments/in Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Healthcare, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Politics & Human Rights, Schools & Youth, Theology & Church Teaching, Uncategorized /by Angela Howard-McParland

Catholics should not be strangers to the deep connection between body and soul, refusing a binary that suggests we are composed of two separated entities. As Catholics, embodiment is central to the human experience and to God’s participation in the world, so how we treat the bodies of ourselves and others matters deeply. Read More

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