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Vatican Newspaper Publishes Gay-Positive Essay from Synod’s Spiritual Assistant

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Participants in the Synod on Synodality's General Assembly are on retreat today to prepare spiritually for their deliberations, which formally begin this Wednesday. Throughout the month-long assembly, two spiritual assistants will guide them, one of whom recently made some LGBTQ-positive remarks. Read More

Delegate Fr. James Martin Reflects on LGBTQ+ Opposition at Synod Assembly

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With the second General Assembly of the Synod on Synodality beginning next week, delegate Fr. James Martin, S.J., offered reflections on last year’s assembly and LGBTQ+ issues. Read More

Will LGBTQ+ Issues Even Make the Synod’s Agenda in October?

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As the Synod on Synodality's second and final General Assembly begins this week, it is an open question whether LGBTQ+ issues will be part of the agenda. Today's post examines why that is and one commentator's thoughts on how they might come up anyway. Read More

Synod to Open with Penance for Sins, Including “Doctrine as Stones to Be Hurled”

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Throughout the October's assembly, Bondings 2.0 will be reporting live from Rome on LGBTQ+ developments and related news. Today's post begins that coverage with a few thoughts on how and where LGBTQ+ issues might emerge next month. Read More

Archbishop Says African Synod Delegates Will Keep Opposing LGBTQ+ Inclusion

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Ahead of the Synod on Synodality's final assembly in October, a Cameroonian archbishop has defended African Catholics' opposition to LGBTQ+ and said it would continue. Read More

The Synod Needs to Hear Stories of LGBTQ+ Flourishing, Writes Theologian

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“Even if others choose to live with scales over their eyes, LGBTQ+ Catholics can see the Spirit creating and renewing,” writes Nick Fagnant in an essay for Commonweal about the Synod on Synodality, which concludes next month. Read More

Some LGBTQ-Positive Members Appointed to Synod Study Groups; And More News

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Concurrent with the release of the Synod on Synodality's latest working document two weeks ago, the Vatican also published the members in the previously-established study groups for specific questions raised during the synodal process. Today's post includes that news and more reactions from reform organizations. Read More

What Would a Eucharistic Revival Actually Be for LGBTQ+ Catholics and Allies?

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But what if the bishops are off-target? What if the issue is not about an erroneous understanding of the Real Presence but about church leaders' actions to exclude LGBTQ+ people? Read More

Pro-LGBTQ+ Theologians, Pastoral Ministers React to New Synod Document

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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

Synod Document Offers Only ‘Crumb of Comfort’ for LGBTQI+ People

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Will the synodal process over time prove to be the leaven in Church thinking which opens space for updating of the magisterial teachings, practices and processes which deliberately deprive the Church of the talents of many who do not just “feel” excluded but actually are excluded by Church teaching and practice? Read More