Ursula Halligan Archives - New Ways Ministry

From “A” to “D-“: How Catholic LGBTQ+ Leaders Grade Pope Francis At Ten Years, Part II

March 15, 2023/1 Comment/in Anti-LGBTQ Criminalization, Employment Issues, Gender Identity, Hierarchy, Higher Education, Marriage & Family, New Ways Ministry, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Politics & Human Rights, Pope Francis, Schools & Youth, Synod on Synodality, Theology & Church Teaching /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Today’s post, the second of two parts, features responses from leading LGBTQ+ Catholics, theologians, pastoral ministers, and reform advocates about how the first ten years of Pope Francis' tenure has gone. Read More

Sister Jeannine Gramick Expresses Hope for Queer Sacramental Marriages in Church

May 6, 2022/2 Comments/in Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, New Ways Ministry, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Pope Francis, Same-Gender Blessings, Theology & Church Teaching, Uncategorized /by Andru Zodrow

Sr. Jeannine Gramick has offered a future vision for the Catholic Church where queer couples will partake in sacramental marriage. Read More

New Book on Catholic Women Includes LGBT Issues Discussions

October 2, 2018/1 Comment/in Arts, Books & Culture, Personal Stories, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

A new book about Catholic women that includes chapters on LGBT issues was launched in Rome this week in anticipation of the Synod on Youth. Read More

Looking Toward the Youth Synod and Helping Young LGBT Catholics Tell Their Stories

August 29, 2018/1 Comment/in Schools & Youth /by Francis DeBernardo, Editor

A new website will allow Catholic LGBTQ youth to tell their stories to their bishop delegates at October's synod on youth at the Vartican. Read More

Rainbow Choir Sings to WMF and Asks Church Leaders to “Hear Our Voices”

August 25, 2018/2 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Francis DeBernardo, Editor

Certainly one of the most memorable events of the World Meeting of Families week in Dublin was a musical performance held literally and figuratively "outside the gates" of the pastoral congress' venue. Read More

“Intrinsically Disordered”: How We Got There, Why It Matters, and What We Should Do About It

May 9, 2018/8 Comments/in Theology & Church Teaching /by Cristina Traina

The Roman Catholic Church uses the terminology "intrinsic, objective disorder" to describe lesbian and gay sexuality, but more and more Catholics are speaking out about the harm that such language causes. How did we get strapped with such terminology and what can we do about it? Read More

Prominent Irish Gay Catholic Calls for “Full Sacramental Marriage” for LGBT Couples Ahead of WMF

April 23, 2018/5 Comments/in Marriage & Family, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Church reformers in Ireland recently met in advance of the World Meeting of Families (WMF) to discuss marriage and family issues. At the meeting, a prominent gay Catholic called for full sacramental marriage equality. Read More

QUOTE TO NOTE: Gay Catholic Says Church’s Language on Homosexuality is “Vile”

April 21, 2018/5 Comments/in Parish Life & Pastoral Care /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Earlier this week, Bondings 2.0 reported on Irish Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh's admission that the institutional Church "struggles to find a language" through which it can relate to LGBT people. In response, political journalist and gay Catholic Ursula Halligan wrote a sharp response in The Irish Times. Read More