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USCCB Asks Senators to Stop Equal Rights Amendment In Part Due to LGBTQ Concerns

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The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishop has written to U.S. senators asking them to reject a reconsideration of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), in part because it would help protect transgender people's rights. Read More

Boston Archdiocese’s Process for Writing Transgender Policy Detailed in New Article

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Like other dioceses around the U.S., the Archdiocese of Boston is crafting gender identity guidelines for its parishes and schools. The National Catholic Reporter obtained some insight into this typically opaque process in a recent interview with a member of the committee appointed by Cardinal Sean O’Malley. Read More

Jesus’ Transfiguration: What a Queer Story!

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What relevance does the Transfiguration have for all of us as disciples of Christ, here in the second week of Lent, and for us as LGBTQ+ Catholics and allies, in particular? Read More

Baltimore Archdiocese Cancels Trans Workshop Fearing Protests; And More News

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The Archdiocese of Baltimore cancelled a planned transgender workshop after protestors threatened to disrupt it. Today's post includes this story and other Catholic LGBTQ+ news. Read More

Two Catholic Theologians Debate Whether “Gender Theory” Is a Threat or Opportunity

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America recently invited two Catholic theologians back to continue a conversation about gender identity, which they began in the same publication late last year. Read More

LGBTQ+ Groups Again Denied Entrance to Staten Island St. Patrick’s Day Parade

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LGBTQ+ organizations have once again been denied entrance to march in Staten Island’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade, following a pattern of exclusion the parade has exhibited for several years. Read More

Lansing Diocese Encourages Parishes to End Scouting Affiliations Over LGBTQ+ Support

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The Diocese of Lansing, Michigan, has encouraged parishes to disassociate from Scouts BSA because the scouting organization no longer provides an exemption for religious organizational sponsors of scout groups to exclude young people’s whose “personal beliefs” conflict with the sponsoring group. Read More

Leading Catholic Newspaper Condemns Transgender-Negative Diocesan Policies

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A leading U.S. Catholic newspaper has announced its opposition to diocesan gender policies that negate the experiences of transgender and nonbinary people. Read More

Vote Now: Give Pope Francis a Grade on LGBTQ+ Issues

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We are asking that you simply answer one question on our response form:  What kind of grade would you give Pope Francis on LGBTQ+ topics? Read More

How Adam and Eve’s Fig Leaves Cover Up the Fall’s Real Meaning

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Although intended to hide the sex organs of Adam and Eve, those fig-leaf Fruit-of-the-Looms managed to focus attention on them. The only thing they covered up was the real meaning of the story.  Read More