While most Catholics would recognise that we have a natural capacity for change through growing and aging, trans experience also suggests that this capacity is even broader. Read More
https://www.newwaysministry.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/policing_intersex_americans_sex_and_gender_1050x700.avif7001050Guest Contributorhttps://www.newwaysministry.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/logo_nwm-1.pngGuest Contributor2026-06-09 01:00:342026-06-09 07:38:31Dubious Homilies and Ambiguous Bodies
Do we expect Christ to come down again to prove he’s with us? Should we remain there on the mountainside, endlessly seeking reassurance, never allowing Christ to depart? Read More
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Sometimes people are annunciated to be valueless because they defy the power of institutions to annunciate. This is the essence of queerness. . . Read More
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Trans people today are being cast into all kinds of prisons. Christ is our way to liberation and freedom. Read More
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Sometimes calling for “clarity” is also a way of demanding a walk-back when Church leaders say things with which they disagree. Read More
https://i0.wp.com/www.newwaysministry.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Clarity.webp?fit=2560%2C1440&ssl=114402560Guest Contributorhttps://www.newwaysministry.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/logo_nwm-1.pngGuest Contributor2025-04-11 01:00:082025-07-25 13:15:42Clarity about “Clarity”: Conservative Lucidity vs. the Common Good
It is frustrating that the USCCB seems more concerned with championing policies that flow from their tenuous views than protecting trans people from the much more obvious and incontrovertible harms those policies cause. Read More
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Today's post features reactions from several LGBTQ+ or ally theologians and pastoral workers to the Vatican's latest working document for the Synod on Synodality. Read More
https://i0.wp.com/www.newwaysministry.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/peopleofgod.jpeg?fit=600%2C325&ssl=1325600Robert Shine, Managing Editorhttps://www.newwaysministry.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/logo_nwm-1.pngRobert Shine, Managing Editor2024-07-15 01:00:592025-07-25 12:33:24Pro-LGBTQ+ Theologians, Pastoral Ministers React to New Synod Document
