Linda Karle-Nelson Archives - New Ways Ministry

Catholic Families in Detroit Launch Fund to Support Fired LGBTQ Church Workers

November 3, 2021/0 Comments/in Employment Issues, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Detroit-area Catholics are raising funds to support LGBTQ church workers fired from Catholic institutions after facing discrimination themselves in the archdiocese. Read More

U.S. Catholics Roundly Condemn Vatican Ban on Blessing Same-Gender Couples

March 20, 2021/2 Comments/in Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Pope Francis, Same-Gender Blessings, Theology & Church Teaching /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Catholic advocates for LGBTQ equality have reacted strongly against the Vatican's response ad dubium yesterday in which it banned the blessing of same-gender unions. Read More

Detroit Families Group Will Continue Its Ministry Separate From National Network

July 22, 2020/14 Comments/in Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care /by Francis DeBernardo, Editor

This situation illustrates a tension that exists in LGBTQ ministry with regard to whether a group chooses to express their dissenting views on the church’s sexual ethics teaching or to minister while remaining neutral or expressing support for the church’s teaching on sexual ethics. Read More

Detroit Archdiocese Bans Group Formed to Support Families of LGBTQ Catholics

June 2, 2020/7 Comments/in Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Uncategorized /by Kevin Molloy

An auxiliary bishop in Detroit has told a parish group formed to support families of LGBTQ Catholics that they could not meet or hold events on church property, including the local church which had housed them for decades. Read More