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New Louisville Archbishop with LGBTQ-Negative Record Says He Is Ready to Listen

February 11, 2022/4 Comments/in Employment Issues, Hierarchy, Parish Life & Pastoral Care /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

The new archbishop of Louisville has expressed a willingness "to meet and to listen" to LGBTQ Catholics, but his record on LGBTQ issues has some advocates concerned. Read More

This MLK Weekend, I Still Have Dreams

January 16, 2022/6 Comments/in Anti-LGBTQ Criminalization, Employment Issues, Gender Identity, Hierarchy, LGBTQ Clergy & Religious, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Politics & Human Rights, Same-Gender Blessings, Schools & Youth, Scriptural Reflections, Theology & Church Teaching /by Guest Contributor

"I want to warn against moving too quickly to see the deep parallels between King’s quest for racial justice and LGBTQ strivings for equal justice." Read More

Catholic School Sued By Donors For Being Too “Woke” on Racial Justice, LGBTQ Equality

August 14, 2021/1 Comment/in Schools & Youth /by Barbara Anne Kozee

The community at all-girls Catholic high school community has begun a conversation about what its Catholic identity means after donors sued the school for offering inclusive teachings on racial justice and LGBTQ allyship. Read More

New Book on Black Lives Matter and the Catholic Church Centers LGBTQ People

February 22, 2021/2 Comments/in Arts, Books & Culture, Gender Identity, Politics & Human Rights, Theology & Church Teaching /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

The story of Black Lives Matter cannot be told without queer and transgender activists, who helped found and lead the movement since its beginnings in 2013. That is why it was so refreshing to see LGBTQ people centered repeatedly in a new book on the relationship between the movement for racial justice and the Catholic Church. Read More

In Cake Shop Dispute, Black Lesbian Owners Exhibit Christian Love

August 19, 2020/3 Comments/in Arts, Books & Culture, Marriage & Family, Politics & Human Rights /by Guest Contributor

A news story about a cake shop got me thinking this weekend about intersectionality, the Catholic Church, and Christian love. Read More

Is An Obsession with Stopping LGBTQ Equality Preventing Bishops from Saying “Black Lives Matter”?

August 10, 2020/6 Comments/in Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Politics & Human Rights, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

In recent months, more and more people in the United States and around the world have proclaimed that Black Lives Matter. These three words represent a truth too often buried and a movement for justice too long denied. But notably, bishops in the U.S. have overall been unable to utter these words, and part of their reluctance can be traced to their obsession with stopping LGBTQ rights. Read More

New Ways Ministry Affirms That Black Lives Matter

July 2, 2020/6 Comments/in New Ways Ministry, Politics & Human Rights /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

New Ways Ministry affirms that Black Lives Matter, and we call on all of our supporters and friends to do the same. Read More

On Being a Hero: Reflections for the Second Sunday of Advent

December 10, 2017/1 Comment/in Scriptural Reflections, Uncategorized /by Guest Contributor

This Sunday, we’re asked to think about John the Baptist. And before Jesus was the Jesus of Nazareth whom we know and love—the one who exorcises demons, the one who heals people, the one who walks on water—Jesus was a person like you and me. Indeed, Jesus was a disciple; Jesus was an eager sidekick. And Jesus’s hero was John. Read More