Synod Cardinals Offer Mixed Response on “Fiducia Supplicans”; And More Developments

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Today's post provides news and opinion related to ongoing debate over "Fiducia Supplicans," the Vatican declaration on blessings, including for same-gender couples. Read More

In Church Documents on Gender Identity, Where Is the Compassion?

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But the church's refusal to engage with the facts about transgender individuals also brings with it something else that concerns me greatly: a stunning lack of compassion. Read More

In This Is Love: Dispatches from a Popular University for Gaza

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For one, the fight for queer liberation is fundamentally intertwined with the struggle for a free Palestine. Read More

LGBTQ+ Parish Ministry Book Nominated for Catholic Award; And More News

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Today's post includes news about a new book on LGBTQ+ parish ministry nominated for a Catholic publishing award, a Synod report released by a network of church reform groups, and more.  Read More

Graduate Students Criticize “Dignitas Infinita” in Open Letter to Pope

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An open letter to Pope Francis has been published by Catholic students, theologians, pastoral ministers, educators, and others that expresses their “concern” with portions of the Vatican's new declaration on human dignity, Dignitas Infinita. Read More

Providence College Faces Anti-LGBTQ+ Discrimination Complaint by Former Staff

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A Rhode Island Catholic college's former diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) director has filed a discrimination complaint against the school amid ongoing campus controversy about LGBTQ+ inclusion. Read More

Pope Provides Sr. Jeannine a Clarification of “Dignitas Infinita”

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I wrote a note to Pope Francis to tell him about my sadness and my disappointment with the use of the concept, “gender ideology.” Read More

Leaders of Germany’s #OutInChurch Negative About Church’s Response, Affirm Gay Religious

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A leader of Germany's #OutInChurch initiative has evaluated the church's response in the past two years quite negatively, while one member of the initiative affirmed the presence of gay men in religious life. Elsewhere in the country, a Catholic men's group criticized some of Pope Francis anti-transgender rhetoric.  Read More

Ghana’s Bishops Urge Passage of Anti-LGBTQ+ Law, Endorse Conversion Therapy

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At a time when many church leaders, including Pope Francis, have decried the criminalization of LGBTQ+ people, bishops in Ghana persist in their support for such a new law, and even advocate forced conversion therapy. Read More

An Itch Impossible to Ignore

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This move from unchristian judgmentalism to Christian welcome was visible at Mass last Sunday. Read More