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Global Survey of Catholic Women Finds Significant Support for LGBTQ+ Inclusion in Church

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A survey of Catholic women worldwide released this spring has found respondents to be largely supportive of LGBTQ+ inclusion, though not as much for sacramental marriage equality and with diversity in terms of where such support is found geographically. Read More

What the Synod on Synodality’s Continental Reports Say about LGBTQ+ Issues: Part II

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The Continental Stage of the Synod on Synodality has now concluded following regional assemblies this spring. With its conclusion come reports from the assemblies. Today's post features a round up of areas in these reports that name LGBTQ+ issues from North America, Oceania, Africa, and the "Digital Synod." Read More

What the Synod on Synodality’s Continental Reports Say about LGBTQ+ Issues: Part I

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The Continental Stage of the Synod on Synodality has now concluded following regional assemblies this spring. With its conclusion come reports from the assemblies. Today's post features a round up of areas in these reports that name LGBTQ+ issues from Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. Read More

Hearing the Voice of Jesus in a Church that Excludes

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Trying to hear the voice of Jesus is difficult as a Catholic and even more difficult as an LGBTQ+ Catholic. It’s nothing short of a miracle that LGBTQ+ people remain in the church. Read More

Sr. Jeannine Gramick: Church Teaching on LGBTQ+ Issues Will “Inevitably Change”

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Sr. Jeannine Gramick, SL, co-founder of New Ways Ministry, has penned an essay reflecting on Pope Francis’ call for the decriminalization of homosexuality and her vision for the future of the church. Read More

Fired Gay Church Worker Writes on Turning the Other Cheek in a Synodal Church

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Turning the other cheek meant letting go and finding solace in my powerlessness. In this way, Jesus’ liberating hand frees me from my instinct to fight back, to flee to false securities, or to freeze in negative feelings. Read More

Cardinal McElroy Calls Anti-LGBTQ+ Spirit a “Demonic Mystery” in Call for Inclusion

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The church needs to embark on a journey of radical inclusion, wrote a top U.S. church leader in a new essay that suggests the "profound and visceral animus" towards LGBTQ+ people in the church is a "demonic mystery of the human soul." Read More

Catholic LGBTQ+ Advocates Respond Positively to Vatican’s New Synod Document

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Catholic LGBTQ+ advocates have responded positively to the Vatican's latest document on the Synod released last week, praising church officials for reflecting a real style of listening and humility in it. Read More

Vatican’s Latest Synod Document Recognizes LGBTQ+ People as Pressing Pastoral Issue

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The Vatican released the latest working document for the Synod on Synodality yesterday, which included LGBTQ+ issues at two points. The document is a signal for LGBTQ+ Catholics and allies to keep participating in the synodal process. Read More

Key Cardinal Robustly Condemns Discrimination Against LGBTQ+ People

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A high-ranking cardinal has spoken against discrimination, including that which targets queer people, and said the question of blessing LGBTQ+ couples has not been definitively decided. Read More