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Massachusetts Bishops Offer Temperate Response to New Transgender Law

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Catholic bishops in Massachusetts have offered a tempered, though not perfect, response to newly passed anti-discrimination... Read More

Vigil for Orlando Victims Displaces Gay-Negative Lecture at Catholic School

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A Catholic school in Australia replaced a lecture against marriage equality with a candlelight vigil for... Read More

Catholic School Graduate Killed in Orlando Massacre

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Names and photographs for many of the 49 people killed at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando have... Read More

After Orlando, Archbishop Pledges to LGBT Communities: “I Stand With You”

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Catholic leaders were initially silent about the anti-LGBT prejudices undergirding the mass shooting at Pulse Nightclub... Read More

Westboro Baptist Church Targets Catholic University; More LGBT Campus News

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Graduation ceremonies concluded and degrees conferred, it is time for the final “Campus Chronicles” of this... Read More

U.S. Bishops’ Working Group May Dull “Amoris Laetitia” Impact

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Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia will head a working group tasked with “furthering the reception... Read More

Church “a Source of Consolation,” Says Philippines’ First Transgender Politician

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Geraldine Roman, the Philippines’ first elected transgender representative to that nation’s congress, spoke revealingly about her... Read More

Priest Leads Opposition to Queensland’s “Gay Panic” Defense

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A Catholic priest in Australia has been leading efforts to eliminate the “gay panic” defense in his... Read More

Complicating Catholic Understandings of Sex and Gender

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Respecting LGBTQI people should be a “fairly simple thing to do,” as Jesuit Fr. James Martin remarked... Read More

Fr. James Martin: Respecting Transgender People “Fairly Simple Thing to Do”

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Jesuit Fr. James Martin again affirmed LGBT inclusion, saying transgender people using restrooms according to their... Read More