Synod on Synodality Archives - Page 6 of 10

Global Network of Rainbow Catholics Launches Petition for LGBTQ+ Representation at Synod

July 29, 2023/2 Comments/in Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Synod on Synodality /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Catholic LGBTQ+ advocates worldwide have launched a petition asking the Vatican to include LGBTQ+ people and their families as participants in the upcoming assembly for the Synod on Synodality. Read More

We Must Sow LGBTQ+ Seeds in the Synod, Even When Most Fail

July 16, 2023/2 Comments/in Scriptural Reflections, Synod on Synodality, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Yet, the bulk of the parable and Jesus' explanation is not actually about the apparent heroes, the seeds in rich soil. Instead, more attention is paid to the failures. Three-quarters of the seeds cast out by the parable's sower simply died. But this is not about failure. Read More

How Are Synod Assembly Participants on LGBTQ+ Issues? — Part III

July 14, 2023/0 Comments/in Anti-LGBTQ Criminalization, Gender Identity, Hierarchy, LGBTQ Clergy & Religious, Marriage & Family, New Ways Ministry, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Politics & Human Rights, Same-Gender Blessings, Schools & Youth, Synod on Synodality, Theology & Church Teaching /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Today's post concludes our series highlighting some of the more LGBTQ-positive participants in this October's assembly for the Synod on Synodality, as the process is informally known. Read More

How Are Synod Assembly Participants on LGBTQ+ Issues? — Part I

July 12, 2023/0 Comments/in Anti-LGBTQ Criminalization, Gender Identity, Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Politics & Human Rights, Same-Gender Blessings, Schools & Youth, Synod on Synodality, Theology & Church Teaching, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

This week, New Ways Ministry is announcing a new resource that documents the LGBTQ-related records, good and bad, of Synod assembly participants to help understand how this conversation about inclusion and equality might proceed. Read More

Hope and Disappointment for LGBTQ+ People Spring from List of Synod Participants

July 7, 2023/2 Comments/in Anti-LGBTQ Criminalization, Employment Issues, Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Healthcare, Hierarchy, Higher Education, LGBTQ Clergy & Religious, Marriage & Family, New Ways Ministry, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Politics & Human Rights, Pope Francis, Same-Gender Blessings, Schools & Youth, Synod on Synodality, Theology & Church Teaching /by Francis DeBernardo, Editor

The participants’ list for the Synod’s next assembly causes both hope and disappointment for New Ways Ministry as we work for LGBTQ+ inclusion. This news commits us to continue working to ensure LGBTQ+ people will be heard in the church’s synodal process. Read More

Vatican Set to Release List of Synod Members for October Assembly: Stay Tuned!

July 7, 2023/0 Comments/in Synod on Synodality /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

The Vatican is expected to release today the list of participants for this October's assembly of the Synod in Rome, which for the first time will include about 70 non-bishop members consisting of clergy, religious, and lay people, including women, with full voting privileges. Read More

LGBTQ+ Advocates and Church Reformers React Positively to Synod’s Latest Document

June 23, 2023/1 Comment/in Anti-LGBTQ Criminalization, Gender Identity, Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, New Ways Ministry, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Pope Francis, Schools & Youth, Synod on Synodality, Theology & Church Teaching /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

LGBTQ+ advocates' reactions to the Vatican's latest working document for the Synod on Synodality have been largely positive and hopeful. Today's post includes some of those reactions, as well as insightful remarks from one LGBTQ-positive cardinal. Read More

New Ways Ministry Praises New Synod Document That Includes LGBTQ+ People

June 20, 2023/4 Comments/in Anti-LGBTQ Criminalization, Gender Identity, Hierarchy, LGBTQ Clergy & Religious, Marriage & Family, New Ways Ministry, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Politics & Human Rights, Pope Francis, Schools & Youth, Synod on Synodality, Theology & Church Teaching /by Francis DeBernardo, Editor

It is nothing short of an amazing and true blessing that LGBTQ+ people were mentioned twice in the Vatican’s working document for the assembly of the Synod in October, which was released today. Read More

Vatican Set to Release Synod’s Next Working Document Later Today: Stay Tuned!

June 20, 2023/0 Comments/in Synod on Synodality, Theology & Church Teaching /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Later today, at about 8:30 a.m. Eastern U.S. Time, the Vatican will release the Instrumentum Laboris, or working document, for the next assembly of the Synod this coming October. Read More

Bishop Bonny: Support for LGBTQ+ Blessings Is “Not Going Against the Pope”

May 30, 2023/1 Comment/in Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Same-Gender Blessings, Synod on Synodality, Theology & Church Teaching /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

The Flemish bishops' opening to bless LGBTQ+ couples is "not going against the pope," one of those bishops has said based on personal conversations with Pope Francis. Read More

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