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Being Surprised Out of Our Fears

June 23, 2024/11 Comments/in Scriptural Reflections /by Phoebe Carstens

Here is another lesson from queer and trans people of faith, who remain faithful and hopeful despite disappointments, hurt, and rejection: we know that our God is not asleep, that our God is not indifferent to our suffering and our fear. Read More

New Book Examines the Sacramental Nature of Same-Sex Marriage

June 21, 2024/2 Comments/in Arts, Books & Culture, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Personal Stories, Same-Gender Blessings, Theology & Church Teaching /by Guest Contributor

"The Sacrament of Same-Sex Marriage" gives much-needed crucial attention to the loving grace many queer couples already experience, as well as to the hope that this grace will be affirmed. Read More

In This Is Love: Dispatches from a Popular University for Gaza

May 5, 2024/3 Comments/in Higher Education, Politics & Human Rights, Scriptural Reflections /by Guest Contributor

For one, the fight for queer liberation is fundamentally intertwined with the struggle for a free Palestine. Read More

Palm Sunday: The Day I Came Out as Queer

March 24, 2024/6 Comments/in Scriptural Reflections /by Guest Contributor

I am not so sure anymore whether the image of an incarnate God-the-Son who died on the cross can continue to give me and other queer people hope and comfort in a violent, anti-queer church and world. Read More

German Bishops Appoint New National Commissioner for LGBTQ+ Pastoral Care

March 8, 2024/0 Comments/in Gender Identity, Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Same-Gender Blessings, Schools & Youth /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

In the German church's latest move for LGBTQ+ inclusion, the country's bishops' conference has appointed a prelate to lead queer pastoral care efforts. Read More

Mary, Mother of God, Is “Gender-Bending, Queer Prophetess,” Writes Catholic Scholar

February 13, 2024/1 Comment/in Scriptural Reflections, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Mary, the mother of God, is a "gender-bending, queer prophetess who defied the gender conventions of her time," writes one LGBTQ+ Catholic in an essay examining how Mary helped the author experience queer joy. Read More

Catholic Schools Week: Paving a Queer Way Forward for Ministerial Work

February 2, 2024/6 Comments/in Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Personal Stories, Schools & Youth, Uncategorized /by Guest Contributor

Already, each of us paved our own separate ways through exclusionary sentiments and doctrine in the Church to get to that room. Read More

Jesus, The Man of Sorrows, Welcomes Outcasts in Advent, Writes Gay Catholic

December 23, 2023/1 Comment/in Scriptural Reflections /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

With Advent concluding, one gay Catholic has offered a reflection on the way queer Catholics can related to the liturgical season's themes of loneliness, darkness, and waiting—as a path to finding Jesus, the Man of Sorrows. Read More