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Catholic Leaders Seek Right to Discriminate in Federally-Funded Childcare Programs

December 3, 2021/4 Comments/in Employment Issues, Gender Identity, Healthcare, Politics & Human Rights, Religious Liberty, Schools & Youth /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Catholic leaders, including the U.S. bishops, have joined an interfaith letter that seeks provisions in Build Back Better Act's childcare and pre-kindergarten programs allowing discrimination, including against LGBTQ people. Read More

U.S. Bishops’ Ban Investments in Transgender Healthcare, But Not Fossil Fuels and Other Ills

November 19, 2021/2 Comments/in Gender Identity, Healthcare, Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, Politics & Human Rights, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

New investment guidelines approved by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) this week mandate no investments be made in companies involved with gender transitions, even as they refused to divest from fossil fuels. Read More

Pro-LGBTQ Catholics Rally Outside U.S. Bishops’ Meeting Around Communion Denial

November 17, 2021/3 Comments/in Hierarchy, Politics & Human Rights, Religious Liberty, Theology & Church Teaching, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

A network of U.S. Catholic reform groups held a demonstration outside the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops meeting to push back against attempts to deny Communion to pro-LGBTQ and pro-choice politicians. Read More

Highly LGBTQ-Negative Bishops Up for Elections to USCCB Leadership Next Week

November 12, 2021/5 Comments/in Hierarchy, Politics & Human Rights, Religious Liberty /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

With the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' (USCCB) meeting in Baltimore approaching next week, most attention has been on whether the bishops will approve a controversial document on the Eucharist. But there will also be some key committee chair elections occurring, and candidates include some of the most LGBTQ-negative church leaders in the U.S. Read More

Lesbian Woman Files Discrimination Lawsuit Involving U.S. Bishops’ Foster Care Funding

October 30, 2021/0 Comments/in Healthcare, Marriage & Family, Politics & Human Rights, Religious Liberty, Schools & Youth /by Angela Howard-McParland

A lesbian woman in Nashville is suing the U.S. government after she was twice rejected from being a foster parent to unaccompanied migrant children, which she believes is discrimination based on her sexual orientation. Read More

Theologian Criticizes U.S. Bishops’ Theology of Scandal In Light of LGBTQ Adoption Case

October 2, 2021/1 Comment/in Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, Politics & Human Rights, Schools & Youth, Theology & Church Teaching /by Elise Dubravec

The hierarchy’s understanding of “scandal” helps them to justify anti-LGBTQ discrimination, a position with which Dr. Craig Ford disagrees and then turns the table on scandal. Read More

Bishop Calls for “Special Vigilance” to Stop Transgender People Entering Seminary

September 28, 2021/6 Comments/in Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Hierarchy, Higher Education, LGBTQ Clergy & Religious, Theology & Church Teaching /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

A committee chair at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has claimed that transgender men have been admitted to seminaries, and is seeking new policies to ensure this cannot happen, including the prospect of intrusive medical examinations. Read More

Catholic Leaders Seek Right to Discriminate in Federally-Funded Childcare Programs

U.S. Bishops’ Ban Investments in Transgender Healthcare, But Not Fossil Fuels and Other Ills

Pro-LGBTQ Catholics Rally Outside U.S. Bishops’ Meeting Around Communion Denial

Highly LGBTQ-Negative Bishops Up for Elections to USCCB Leadership Next Week

Lesbian Woman Files Discrimination Lawsuit Involving U.S. Bishops’ Foster Care Funding

Bishop Calls for “Special Vigilance” to Stop Transgender People Entering Seminary

The Saga of Msgr. Jeffrey Burrill Is Not a Scandal. It’s a Tragedy.

Targeting USCCB Priest Over Grindr Use Is “Homophobic Innuendo,” Says Theologian

Eucharistic Coherence…But For Whom?

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