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Outreach Conference Is a Place of True Welcome, Writes Transgender Panelist

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“God's love for the LGBTQ community is abundantly visible at a place like the Outreach conference,” wrote Maxwell Kuzma, reflecting on the LGBTQ Catholic Ministry conference held at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. in early August. Read More

For Their Sake

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"Will you do it for their sake? Will you minister to these people, these queer and trans people, these abortion patients and providers, these parents and children who are now and who are yet to be, these created beings threatened by climate catastrophe? Will you do it for them?" Read More

The Church Is LGBTQ Catholics’ Rightful Home—And We’re Here to Stay

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The time when LGBTQ Catholics had to leave the Church to be safe or to not make others uncomfortable is over. This is our rightful home, we are here to stay. Read More

Pope Francis Thanks Sr. Jeannine Gramick for Her 50 Years of LGBTQ Ministry

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Pope Francis has written a supportive letter to Sr. Jeannine Gramick, co-founder of New Ways Ministry, describing her work as in "'the style' of God." Read More

Marquette Diocese’s New Policy Could Ban LGBTQ People from Sacraments and Ministry

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A new directive from the Diocese of Marquette seeks to greatly restrict LGBTQ people's participation in the life of the church, including possible bans on the sacraments and leadership positions. Read More

Expanding Our Images of God By Encountering the Other

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We must connect more and more with our human nature, with ourselves, and with those different than us so that our idea of God becomes more expansive. Read More

Article from Brazil Reveals How Repressing Gay Priests Harms the Whole Church

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Today’s post will look at the toll repression of gay priests takes on the whole church. Read More

Rescheduled Conference on Catholic LGBTQ Issues to Take Webinar Form This June

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A conference on Catholic LGBTQ issues originally slated for last summer has been rescheduled for this June as a webinar, announced Jesuit Fr. James Martin on his Facebook page. Relatedly, a new documentary premiering this month features the priest’s LGBTQ ministry. Read More

Gay Jesuit Priest: “We dream of a church that will accept us.”

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An openly gay Jesuit priest has written about his spiritual journey as he wrestled with the harmonization of his religious vocation and sexual identity. Read More

Exploring the Unique Contours of Doing LGBTQ Outreach with Latinx Communities

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Across the United States, priests, parents, and church workers are creating spiritual programs to build a more inclusive church for Latinx LGBTQ Catholics. Although the majority of these initiatives incorporate a holistic understanding of LGBTQ identity, not all of them fully embrace the beautiful diversity of God’s Latinx LGBTQ children. Read More