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“We Deserve to Proclaim Our Truth to the World,” Writes Transgender Catholic

March 24, 2023/6 Comments/in Employment Issues, Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Healthcare, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Politics & Human Rights, Schools & Youth, Theology & Church Teaching /by Michael Sennett

At the end of the day, my transgender hands that inject testosterone into my body once a week are the very same hands that partake in the Eucharist, enveloped in God's love and created in Her image and likeness. Read More

Catholics in Latin America and Europe to Mark IDAHOBIT with Interfaith Prayers

May 14, 2021/0 Comments/in Anti-LGBTQ Criminalization, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Politics & Human Rights, Scriptural Reflections, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

This coming Monday, May 17, is the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia. Once again, Catholics are leading the organization of interfaith prayer vigils and services to remember the victims of anti-LGBTQ prejudices and hate crimes. Read More

Black and LGBTQ Students Seek Greater Inclusion in Brooklyn’s Catholic High Schools

July 13, 2020/0 Comments/in Schools & Youth, Uncategorized /by Kevin Molloy

In the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the growing outcry against racism in the U.S., students and alumni of Catholic schools in New York City are demanding changes to make their schools more inclusive of all people, including LGBTQ people. Read More

Catholic School Official Criticized for Comparing LGBTQ Issues to Cannibalism, Pedophilia

November 23, 2019/2 Comments/in Gender Identity, Politics & Human Rights, Schools & Youth, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

A Catholic education official in Toronto is being called on to resign after comparing LGBTQ issues to cannibalism, pedophilia, and beastiality during a recent debate over whether school policies should be made more inclusive. Read More

Brazilian Bishops Troubled by Court’s Criminalization of Homophobia, Transphobia

July 7, 2019/1 Comment/in Hierarchy, Politics & Human Rights, Religious Liberty /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Brazil's bishops have expressed concern about a high court's ruling that homophobia and transphobia should be criminalized as a crime equivalent to racism. Read More

Catholics Rally Against Bishop Who Warned Pride Celebrations Harm Children

June 4, 2019/7 Comments/in Hierarchy, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Schools & Youth /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Catholics in Rhode Island rallied this weekend against their local bishop for claiming children would be at risk if they attended Pride celebrations, causing the bishop to then offer a partial apology for his tweet. Unfortunately, the controversy has not ended. Read More

New Book Documents LGBTQ Discrimination in Canadian Catholic Schools

March 5, 2019/1 Comment/in Uncategorized /by Guest Contributor

Despite Canada’s advances toward LGBTQ equality, a scholar’s new book on Catholic schools revealed how involved the Church is in discrimination. Read More

Why We Stay: Owning Faith, Making Change, Being Out and Proud

March 3, 2019/1 Comment/in Personal Stories /by Francis DeBernardo, Editor

Three LGBTQ people offer diverse reasons of why they stay in the Catholic Church. Read More

Archbishop Chaput’s Synod Comment on LGBTQ People Explains Why Catholic Church Is in So Much Trouble

October 5, 2018/11 Comments/in Hierarchy /by Francis DeBernardo, Editor

Archbishop Charles Chaput's statement about LGBT Catholics at the synod on youth yesterday is a perfect example of how some church leaders have been so blinded by ideological homophobia and transphobia that they cannot perceive plain human facts accurately. His comments reflect the dangerous avoidance mentality that is the cause of the clergy sexual abuse scandal and so many of the ills which plague the Catholic Church today. Read More