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Advocates Reflect on Benedict XVI’s Largely Negative LGBTQ+ Impact

January 4, 2023/1 Comment/in Hierarchy, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

LGBTQ+ advocates have marked the death of Benedict XVI, the pope emeritus, with reflections about the impact he had—as a theologian and cardinal, as well as pope—on issues of gender and sexuality in the church. Read More

LGBTQ+ Topics Are Central to Most Popular Catholic News Stories of 2022

January 3, 2023/1 Comment/in Uncategorized /by Francis DeBernardo, Editor

LGBTQ+ issues are certainly front and center of the church's agenda, making news and headlines daily. Read More

Benedict XVI’s Death Highlights the Church’s Changes on LGBTQ+ Issues

January 2, 2023/1 Comment/in Pope Francis, Theology & Church Teaching /by Francis DeBernardo, Editor

Why is there so little commentary on the death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI? Read More

Praying to Be Surprised in the New Year

January 1, 2023/0 Comments/in New Ways Ministry, Uncategorized /by Francis DeBernardo, Editor

For acceptance - of ourselves and others...prepare us for surprises. Read More

Benedict XVI in the Company of LGBTQ+ Saints

January 1, 2023/17 Comments/in Hierarchy, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Theology & Church Teaching /by Guest Contributor

Since hearing of his death, I’ve imagined Benedict XVI sitting in a heavenly classroom where his teachers are queer martyrs and saints. Read More

New Ways Ministry Marks the Passing of Benedict XVI

December 31, 2022/12 Comments/in Hierarchy, New Ways Ministry /by Francis DeBernardo, Editor

New Ways Ministry offers prayers for the repose of the soul of the Benedict XVI, the Pope Emeritus, who passed away on December 31, 2022. Read More

The Top Ten BEST Catholic LGBTQ+ News Events of 2022

December 31, 2022/3 Comments/in New Ways Ministry, Uncategorized /by Francis DeBernardo, Editor

It's hard not to be optimistic after recalling these GREAT Catholic LGBTQ+ news events of 2022! Read More

Finding Sanctuary in Queer Holy Families When the Church Falls Short

December 29, 2022/2 Comments/in Scriptural Reflections /by Maka Black Elk

Remember that the Holy Family themselves were not the standard or “normal” family either. Read More

LGBTQ+ Advocates Outnumber Anti-Transgender Protestors at Catholic School

December 28, 2022/3 Comments/in Gender Identity, Politics & Human Rights, Schools & Youth /by Bobby Nichols

LGBTQ+ advocates showed up in strong numbers to counter-demonstrate an anti-transgender protest organized near a Catholic high school in Ontario. Read More

Three Years Later, Theologians Reflect on Vatican’s Trans-Negative Schools Document

December 27, 2022/6 Comments/in Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Healthcare, Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Schools & Youth, Theology & Church Teaching /by Ariell Watson Simon

America recently published a conversation between two theologians who were looking back, three years later, at the Vatican's then-Congregation for Catholic Education’s (CCE) 2019 instruction “‘Male and Female He Created Them’: Towards a Path of Dialogue on the Question of Gender Theory in Education.” Read More

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