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Vatican Official Welcomes LGBTQ People to World Meeting of Families This June

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A key Vatican official has affirmed that LGBTQ families will be welcomed at the World Meeting of Families occurring later this month, but any specific mention of LGBTQ issues is absent from the program. Read More

What I Learned at the World Meeting of Families

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When I set out for Ireland nine days ago, I thought I was going there to report on a church conference.  Instead, the experience has felt more like I was covering a revolution. Read More

On Flight Back to Rome, Pope Francis Offers Advice to Parents of Lesbian and Gay People

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On the return flight home from the World Meeting of Families, Pope Francis spoke with journalists aboard the plane, covering a variety of topics, though mostly focusing on the sex abuse crisis, but he also offered advice to parents of lesbian and gay children. Read More

Pope Francis Closes World Meeting of Families While Being Attacked by Former Papal Nuncio

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The World Meeting of Families 2018 concluded yesterday with a papal Mass in Dublin's Phoenix Park, and the atmosphere was decidedly somber and depressing.  The morning's rain showers didn't help, but the rain clouds were not the problem. The problem was the darker clouds of clergy and religious abuse of children which has covered Ireland for far too long now. And if Pope Francis' slow response to the abuse was not enough to keep people away, on the eve of the papal Mass news hit that the former papal nuncio to the United States was attacking the pontiff's record. Read More

BREAKING NEWS from WMF: Family With LGBT Members Brings Offertory Gifts to Pope Francis

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At the closing Mass of the World Meeting of Families here in Dublin's Phoenix Park, it has been announced that among the handful of families who will be in the offertory procession will be " a family involved in the “All Are Welcome” Mass in Avila, in Donnybrook, Dublin." Read More

LGBT and Ally Voices on World Meeting of Families

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Some brief items about LGBT voices discussing the World Meeting of Families, Dublin. Read More

Quotes from Cardinals and an Archbishop on LGBT Issues at WMF

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Some quotations on LGBT issues from Catholic prelates during the World Meeting of Families. Read More

At WMF, Car Exhibit Displays Same-Sex Love in Stained Glass

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Though two Catholic organizations with a pro-LGBT message were excluded from exhibiting at the World Meeting of Families,  a commercial exhibit that was provided space offered a unique and creative pro-LGBT message. Read More

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

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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

WMF Expert Panelists Agree: Gay Priests are NOT the Cause of Clerical Sex Abuse

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At the World Meeting of Families, the clergy sex abuse crisis is the #1 topic of controversy, even more than LGBT inclusion. But today the dots were connected between these two discussions. Read More