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NEWS NOTES: U.S. Priests Affirm LGBT Ministry; Costa Rican Bishops Condemn Marriage Equality; And More

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Today's post features short news notes including U.S. Catholic priests' resolution supporting LGBT ministry, the Costa Rican bishops' condemnation of marriage equality, and a conference of gay-negative Christians seeking to promote LGBT people's dignity. Read More

Tech Company Withdraws from World Meeting of Families, Prompting Calls for More Withdrawals

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A technology company has withdrawn its participation in the World Meeting of Families (WMF) over the exclusion of LGBT groups, prompting calls for other organizations to do likewise as the event gets underway. Read More

LGBT Controversies Remain as World Meeting of Families Approaches Next Week

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In five days, some 37,000 people will gather to begin the 2018 World Meeting of Families (WMF) and it seems there will be some progress on LGBT issues, but certainly not as far as many Catholics hoped. Read More

Marriage Counseling Service Backed by Irish Bishops to Welcome LGBT Couples

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A marriage counseling program run by Ireland's bishops will now provide services to same-gender couples. Read More

Pro-LGBT Irish Catholics Claim Discrimination by World Meeting of Families

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We Are Church Ireland has claimed organizers of the upcoming World Meeting of Families are discriminating against the group because of its reform-minded views, including on LGBT equality. Read More

Fr. Tony Flannery Raises Questions About LGBT Inclusion at the World Meeting of Families

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Fr. Tony Flannery, a Redemptorist priest from Ireland, joined the latest group of voices asking whether the upcoming World Meeting of Families in Dublin, Ireland will include LGBT families. Read More

Irish Catholics Launch Global Petition Seeking to Remove “Intrinsically Disordered” Language

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An Irish reform group has launched a global petition asking top Church leaders in that country to help change the way Catholic teaching refers to LGBTQI people. Read More

Prominent Irish Gay Catholic Calls for “Full Sacramental Marriage” for LGBT Couples Ahead of WMF

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Church reformers in Ireland recently met in advance of the World Meeting of Families (WMF) to discuss marriage and family issues. At the meeting, a prominent gay Catholic called for full sacramental marriage equality. Read More

Ireland’s Top Archbishop Says Church “Struggles to Find a Language” to Relate to LGBT People

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Speaking about the upcoming World Meeting of Families, Ireland's top bishop has said the institutional Church struggles to relate to LGBT people and other people who do not conform to the magisterium's ideal image of family. Read More

Catholic Family Values and Same-Sex Marriage in Ireland: Three Years Later

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Nearly three years after Ireland’s successful 2015 referendum on same-sex marriage, it’s worth asking how such a Catholic country is faring afterward and how it managed to pass same-sex marriage legislation in the first place. Read More