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Young People at Pre-Synod Meeting Call for Church to Openly Address Sexuality

March 27, 2018/6 Comments/in Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Schools & Youth, Theology & Church Teaching, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Youth from around the world have issued a call for the Catholic Church to openly and honestly address matters of sexuality, and to do so from a Church that is a welcoming place for all people. Read More

A Humble Church of Acolytes

March 23, 2018/0 Comments/in Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Personal Stories, Theology & Church Teaching /by Lizzie Sextro

How can the Catholic Church better adopt a humble disposition when it comes to LGBTQ folks? We should start by following the examples of our acolytes. Read More

Are U.S. Youth’s LGBT-Positive Views Being Represented at Pre-Synod Meeting This Week?

March 21, 2018/0 Comments/in Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Schools & Youth /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

This week in Rome, some 300 youth and young adults are meeting in advance of October's Synod on Young People, the Faith, and Vocational Discernment. Included among the attendees are three people from the U.S., but given their backgrounds, will the overwhelmingly LGBT-positive views of U.S. Catholic young people be fairly represented? Read More

Brunch Epiphanies

March 18, 2018/1 Comment/in Scriptural Reflections /by Francis DeBernardo, Editor

In my mind’s eye, I regularly attend the most fascinating brunches, where the mimosas are bottomless, and both laughter and tears surface in equal measure. Read More

QUOTE TO NOTE: Theologian Says U.S. Courts Must Find “Judicial Clarity” on Religious Liberty

March 17, 2018/2 Comments/in Politics & Human Rights, Quote to Note, Theology & Church Teaching /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Religious liberty is among the most disputed areas when it comes to LGBT issues in the United States today. LGBT-negative elements have attempted use religious liberty to justify and make legal their discrimination against LGBT people, while advocates for LGBT equality have pushed back. Read More

Read Today’s Gospel–And This Blog Post–All the Way to the End

March 11, 2018/3 Comments/in Scriptural Reflections /by Sarah Gregory

Perhaps it isn’t prudent to begin a scripture reflection by noting that the Gospel passage about which one is to write includes one’s least favorite bible verse. You know the one: it’s not uncommon to see it flash by on a sports broadcast where a fan – or an athlete - has it scrawled on a sign, or on their face, a la Tim Tebow. Read More

What’s So Shocking About Gender Neutral Language?

March 7, 2018/5 Comments/in Marriage & Family, Schools & Youth /by Francis DeBernardo, Editor

Throughout February, conservative religious and secular websites have been fuming mad about a very commonsense development at the University of Dayton, an Ohio Catholic school run by the Marianist Brothers. Read More

Turning Over Tables With Jesus

March 4, 2018/1 Comment/in Scriptural Reflections /by Guest Contributor

“He made a whip out of cords and drove them all out of the temple area.” This image from today’s gospel is not the way I like to imagine Jesus. Read More

Tests and Tents: Finding Grace in Life’s Challenges

February 25, 2018/3 Comments/in Scriptural Reflections, Transgender /by Guest Contributor

Being a second-generation, Filipinx queer person of color that grew up in the evergreens and lush mountains of the Pacific Northwest, I felt a deep desire to go back home and give back to my community to serve and walk with the majority of students of color coming from low-income backgrounds, who live in a predominantly white city. Read More

POLL RESULTS: Is the Catholic Church Becoming More or Less Accepting of LGBT People?

February 19, 2018/8 Comments/in Statistics /by Francis DeBernardo, Editor

The results of Bondings 2.0's readership survey on whether attitudes and acceptance of LGBTQ people have increased or decreased in the Catholic Church over the past four years are in! Read More

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