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LGBTQ+ Synod Report Continues to Garner Praise

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“By wrestling with such a reality together, we learn to be human, and thus to be Church." Read More

What Theology Looks Like When You Actually Engage Reality

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Church leadership are acknowledging what many theologians and ordinary Catholics alike have recognized for decades: doing theology in a vacuum, clinging to abstractions and hypothetical circumstances at the expense of actual lives, histories, cultures, and experiences, is not really theology at all. Or at least it’s not good theology. Read More

Two More Catholic LGBTQ+ Groups Add Praise to the Study Group 9 Report

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The report has been hailed by many for, among other things, being the first Vatican document that included any LGBTQ+ voices. Read More

Grace in the Margins: What Study Group 9 Got Right—and Where the Church Must Still Walk

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The Church has taken a step. Now, it must walk it. Read More

Hopeful Excerpts from Study Group 9’s Report

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There's a LOT that was hopeful in this small document. Read More

Interim Report of Vatican Synod Study Group Holds Promise for a New LGBTQ+ Discourse

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The document is the interim report of the Synod's study group charged with exploring “theological criteria and synodal methodologies for shared discernment on controversial doctrinal, pastoral, and ethical concerns,” including the pastoral treatment of LGBTQ+ Catholics. Read More

Pope Asks for More Synodality. New Ways Ministry Responds With a New Workshop.

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New Ways Ministry invites parishes and other Catholic groups to host our new workshop to help build up synodality in an inclusive church! Read More

Catholic Religious Brother Sketches Images to Birth a Renewed Church

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“Drawing is my favorite way to be contemplatively present to the present moment.”  Read More

LGBTQ+ Catholics Were Silenced By the Synod. Now What?

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During the 2024 assembly of the synod, LGBTQ+ folks had to stay in “silence for the sake of unity.”  Read More

In the Parable of the Prodigal Son, Which Role Do I Play as an LGBTQ+ Person?

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Of the three main characters in the story—the father, the elder son, the younger son—which do we each think best reflects my experience? Read More