But the church's refusal to engage with the facts about transgender individuals also brings with it something else that concerns me greatly: a stunning lack of compassion. Read More
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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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Signs of positive progress on LGBTQ issues are taking place in the Diocese of Davenport, Iowa, as church leaders work towards a deeper understanding of transgender people’s experiences. Read More
https://i0.wp.com/www.newwaysministry.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/download-1.jpeg?fit=800%2C533&ssl=1533800Grace Doerflerhttps://www.newwaysministry.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/logo_nwm-1.pngGrace Doerfler2022-02-15 01:00:142022-12-15 15:54:16Davenport Bishop Forms Gender Committee to Learn from Transgender Catholics
The Diocese of Lansing, Michigan, has released a new policy on gender identity that requires all of its agencies to acknowledge only a person’s assigned sex at birth. Read More
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Two well-known U.S. Catholic theologians have called on the church to abandon its ill-informed discrimination against transgender and intersex people, and to choose instead to imitate Christ by welcoming and affirming them. Read More
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Fr. Daniel P. Horan, OFM, writes in the National Catholic Reporter: "The time is long overdue to reject specious arguments like those that undergird the right-wing political and ecclesial agendas promoting the boogeyman of ‘gender ideology.’” Read More
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The Archdiocese of Indianapolis has issued guidelines that place severe restrictions on transgender students in Catholic schools, including possibly not admitting them. Read More
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One year ago today, the Vatican's Congregation for Catholic Education published a document on gender that was roundly criticized by LGBTQ advocates for its negative approach. Today's post on the anniversary features a perspective from the intersection of faith and science. Read More
https://i0.wp.com/www.newwaysministry.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Male-and-Female-doc.jpeg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=17201280Robert Shine, Managing Editorhttps://www.newwaysministry.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/logo_nwm-1.pngRobert Shine, Managing Editor2020-06-10 01:00:092020-06-11 17:02:24Revisiting Vatican’s LGBTQ-Negative Gender Document on First Anniversary of Its Publication
Fr. James Martin, SJ, recently met with officials from the Vatican's Congregation for Catholic Education, which released an anti-LGBTQ document earlier this summer. Martin shared with them three letters from people writing about their transgender-related experiences. Read More
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It has been two months since the Vatican's Congregation for Catholic Education published the transgender- and intersex-negative document, Male and Female He Created Them. LGBTQ advocates and many theologians were quick to denounce the text, and a number of responses have been subsequently published. Today's post excerpts several commentaries with links provided for further reading. Read More
https://i0.wp.com/www.newwaysministry.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Male-and-Female-doc.jpeg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=17201280Robert Shine, Managing Editorhttps://www.newwaysministry.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/logo_nwm-1.pngRobert Shine, Managing Editor2019-08-10 01:00:502019-08-08 10:38:19Two Months Later, Conversation Still Continues Over Vatican’s Latest Document on Gender
