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Nebraska Bishops Promote Anti-Transgender Policy for High Schools

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Nebraska’s Catholic bishops are actively opposing a state education association’s draft policy aimed at protecting transgender... Read More

2015: A Miraculous Year for Love

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What bothers me most about this common understanding of miracles, though, is that, in seeking the superstitious and super-natural, we miss the real miracles God performs in our world. 2015 was a year of miracles, miracles of love. I reflect on a few now so they are not lost. Read More

Belmont Abbey College Misrepresents Church Teaching to Discriminate Against Trans Students

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LGBT groups are criticizing Belmont Abbey College, North Carolina, for attaining a religious exemption which... Read More

Catholic School Board Calls For "Just" Discrimination of Transgender Students

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Trustees on the Edmonton Catholic School Board (ECSB) debated the finer points of discrimination in... Read More

Catholic Colleges Advance on Trans* Inclusion, Including Restrooms

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As frequent readers of our “Campus Chronicles” series know, Catholic higher education frequently leads the... Read More

ALL ARE WELCOME: Baltimore Parish's LEAD Ministry a Model for the Church

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The ALL ARE WELCOME series is an occasional feature on this blog that highlights Catholic parishes and faith... Read More

Play Starring Transgender Jesus Draws Catholic Protests

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Catholics in Northern Ireland protested a play performed this month which portrays Jesus as a transgender woman, but the playwright defended it as an attempt to make audiences "think again" about faith and gender. Read More

Cloistered Argentine Carmelite Nun Reaches Out to Trans Women

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Regular long-time readers of Bondings 2.0  may remember our posts about Sister “Monica,” a U.S. nun... Read More

New Ways Ministry Welcomes Pope Francis to Philly with Catholic Gender Identity Workshop

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Just as Pope Francis began his schedule in Philadelphia, Catholics gathered in a church hall to explore gender identity for the morning. The New Ways Ministry-sponsored workshop, titled "Transforming Love," featured four speakers sharing their stories of being trans*, of being intersex, of being an LGBTQI person's family member and doing all of this as Catholics. Read More

Transgender Catholic Initially Rejected as Godparent Now Welcomed–And Other Positive Developments

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A trans* man in Spain will now be allowed to be his nephew’s godparent, reversing the... Read More