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How Spiritual Direction Can Help LGBTQ+ People Flourish

Your mental health matters and so does your spiritual health. You deserve someone who will welcome you, challenge you, and be there for you in a way that uplifts your soul. Read More

A Prayer for Transgender Day of Remembrance

New Ways Ministry offers the following prayer for individual or communal use for the International Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 20, 2024. Read More

Saints Are Making a Comeback. It Is Time to Canonize Fr. Mychal Judge, Argues Writer

Every year, Antonio Pagliarulo makes a pilgrimage to Manhattan's Church of St. Francis of Assisi for its shrine to Fr. Mychal Judge, OFM, a gay Catholic friar who died helping first responders on September 11, 2001—and someone Pagliarulo wants canonized. Read More

Manna from Heaven: The Spiritual Upside to Complaining

As a gay Catholic, I find the spirituality of a healthy sense of humor perhaps even more essential than my hetero siblings might, and I also learn something ironic from these texts: complaining, within reason, can be a spiritually positive thing. Read More

Break Out Your Queer Bibles, Say Your Sapphic Prayers: A Review of Emily Austin’s “Gay Girl Prayers”

Each poem in Gay Girls Prayers is named after a pivotal Biblical passage that recounts the experiences of women and LGBTQ+ individuals during the time of Christ. Read More

Trans Day of Remembrance: A Day for LGBTQ+ Catholics to Mourn, Pray—and Act

On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we pray for an end to anti-trans violence, and we take action to make our world safe for God’s transgender children. Read More

On Synodality and Awakening

Are we awake? Is the Church awake? Is the Church a foolish bridesmaid or a wise one? Read More

Be Cautious in Trusting Secular ‘Kings’

This issue has been a tangled mess for us in the queer segment of the population. Difficulties arise from both the “wall of separation” and from the “inherently intertwined” points of view. Read More

The Samaritan Woman, LGBTQ+ People, and the Synod

Was Radcliffe using coded language to describe LGBTQ+ experience? I don’t think so. I think that if he wanted to make a point about LGBTQ+ people, he would have done so much more plainly. Read More

“Are Not Your Ways Unfair?”

Though not phrased in these words, the question in Ezekiel has been an undercurrent in the sharings from people ostracized by the institutional church: "Are not your ways unfair?" Read More