Gender Archives - New Ways Ministry

What Transgender Catholics and Their Allies Are Saying About “Dignitas Infinita”

April 10, 2024/6 Comments/in Dignitas Infinita, Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Schools & Youth, Theology & Church Teaching, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

How are transgender and nonbinary Catholics, their families, pastoral ministers, and allies responding to "Dignitas Infinita," the Vatican document on human dignity released Monday that condemns "gender theory" and "sex change"? Read More

New Vatican Document Condemns Gender Transitions and Undefined “Gender Theory”

April 9, 2024/3 Comments/in Dignitas Infinita, Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Theology & Church Teaching /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

The Vatican doctrinal office issued its latest intervention about LGBTQ+ issues yesterday, part of a larger document on human dignity in contemporary society that posited a highly transgender-negative approach. Read More

Judith Butler’s “Who’s Afraid of Gender?” An Insightful Read for LGBTQ+ Catholics

April 5, 2024/0 Comments/in Gender Identity, Theology & Church Teaching, Uncategorized /by Guest Contributor

In "Who’s Afraid of Gender?," Butler offers their response to such critics in one of their most public and widely readable works, providing an insightful conversation partner for queer-affirming Catholics today. Read More

“God Doesn’t Want You to Be Miserable.”

February 4, 2024/0 Comments/in Scriptural Reflections /by Guest Contributor

What does it mean to have an obligation or purpose to preach the good news? Are we under the same obligation that Paul and Jesus were? 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

Gender and Sexuality Affect Every Person. The Synod Must Address This Reality.

October 14, 2023/3 Comments/in Anti-LGBTQ Criminalization, Employment Issues, Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Healthcare, Hierarchy, Higher Education, LGBTQ Clergy & Religious, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Politics & Human Rights, Same-Gender Blessings, Schools & Youth, Synod on Synodality, Theology & Church Teaching /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Gender and sexuality must be taken up by the church universal in a more enlightened, substantive, dialogical way. The Synod assembly risks failure if it avoids full examinations of such core questions. Read More

Cameroonian Priest: African Synod Delegates Likely to Resist Pro-LGBTQ+ Ideas

September 11, 2023/4 Comments/in Anti-LGBTQ Criminalization, Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Politics & Human Rights, Synod on Synodality /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

A Cameroonian priest has suggested that African delegates to the Synod on Synodality assembly next month may be quite resistant to any efforts at being more inclusive of LGBTQ+ people. Read More

A Bright Cloud: A Transfiguration Story from India

August 6, 2023/4 Comments/in Scriptural Reflections /by Dwayne Fernandes

Jesus’ transfiguration in the Gospel suggests prodigious potential for change and renewal, much like the kinnar journey - a process of shedding classical expectations of male and female, to embrace an infinitely higher understanding of self. Read More

New Ways Ministry: Pope Francis’ Transgender Welcome a Good Sign, and More Must Be Done

July 26, 2023/2 Comments/in Gender Identity, Gender Policies, New Ways Ministry, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Pope Francis, Schools & Youth /by Francis DeBernardo, Editor

Pope Francis’ recent comment to a transgender person that “God loves us as we are” is a grand sign of welcome to LGBTQ+ people, particularly to transgender and nonbinary people. Read More

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