Washington's Cardinal Gregory's apology has laid the groundwork for better connections between LGBTQ+ people and the Catholic Church. It will now be up to the incoming archbishop, Cardinal Robert McElroy to bring that groundwork to a flowering of welcome and affirmation.| New Ways Ministry
Happy Birthday, Cardinal Radcliffe! And Other News| New Ways Ministry
A round-up of smaller news items about Catholic LGBTQ+ issues. The post Happy Birthday, Cardinal Radcliffe! And Other News appeared first on New Ways Ministry.| New Ways Ministry
"If the Church wants to be faithful to its mission, it can’t only look at those who are already at its events. It must also keep close to heart the souls who are farther away." The post Not There, Still Here: LGBTQ+ Faith Outside the Jubilee of Youth appeared first on New Ways Ministry.| New Ways Ministry
“The measure of a nation's moral health is how it treats its most vulnerable." The post Catholic Journalist: Interfaith Approach Can Support LGBTQ+ Malaysians appeared first on New Ways Ministry.| New Ways Ministry
“The Eucharist. . .is a womb that welcomes, and not a fence that rejects; It is a house with always open doors, where the cornerstone is love without condition." The post Bishop on LGBTQ+ Pilgrimage: “In the heart of the Gospel, no one is excluded.” appeared first on New Ways Ministry.| New Ways Ministry
"I find it difficult when, with regard to the issue of gender, the immediate response is: That's ideology." The post Two German Bishops Strongly Criticize Church’s Negative Approach to LGBTQ+ Issues appeared first on New Ways Ministry.| New Ways Ministry
"Longman’s journey is a reminder that faith, like identity, is not something to be handed to you. . ." The post Journalist’s Journey Back to Catholicism appeared first on New Ways Ministry.| New Ways Ministry
Speaking our truth about our sexual or gender identity may indeed bring about hostile reactions, but . . . The post Doom, Gloom, Catastrophe. Oh, Joy! appeared first on New Ways Ministry.| New Ways Ministry
"It was claimed that with my election, the association would lose its Catholicism or Christian identity – yet my faith is my fundamental belief!” The post Catholic Lesbian Woman Resigns from Scouting Leadership Due to Verbal Attacks appeared first on New Ways Ministry.| New Ways Ministry
"Confession of this God obliges us to an interpretation of the world and an ethos that respects the dignity of every human being as a creature of God—regardless of origin, gender, and social status…" The post German Catholic Groups Protest Award to U.S. Bishop With Anti-LGBTQ+ Record appeared first on New Ways Ministry.| New Ways Ministry
The event was "a historic turning of the page which opens the door to healing a spiritual wound."| New Ways Ministry
"We must hold our leaders accountable for the harm their actions cause — both political and religious leaders."| New Ways Ministry
Mychal Judge, like the Prodigal Son, overcame his brokenness and shame through honesty, humility, and self-acceptance. And through that, he was able to return to the embrace of an all-loving God, who like the father in today’s gospel pulls out all stops and spares no expense to show us extravagant love.| New Ways Ministry
The Jesuit school continues to take strides to support transgender, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming students.| New Ways Ministry
An LGBTQ+ pilgrimage for the Jubilee Year in 2025 may be reposted to the Vatican's event website after initially being posted and then removed this month.| New Ways Ministry
Pope Francis welcomed a group of transgender women, with whom he has formed an ongoing relationship, to a luncheon at the Vatican last week marking the church's World Day of the Poor.| New Ways Ministry
For a community of trans women in Italy, finding welcome at a Catholic church—and from Pope Francis himself—has been life changing.| New Ways Ministry
Praise is being heaped upon Pope Francis for his support earlier this month of transgender women who have suffered economically because of the coronavirus pandemic, while the pope's personal almoner has said such support is "ordinary work for the Church."| New Ways Ministry
Pope Francis sent his personal almoner to assist a transgender community which had appealed to a parish priest for assistance during the coronavirus pandemic.| New Ways Ministry
Trans Day of Visibility Makes Visible God’s Abiding Love for ALL| New Ways Ministry
The Animated, Extravagant and Flamboyant Spirit of God| New Ways Ministry
Homily and Personal Reflection Aids for July 2025| New Ways Ministry
July's scripture readings speak of miracles of abundance.| New Ways Ministry
"The divine dance moves every fiber of my being from my griefs and anxieties to my every desire and joy. That’s what makes the Trinity holy for me."| New Ways Ministry
To put it quite simply: Deacon Ray Dever was a prophet.| New Ways Ministry
These four Catholics come from Canada, Brazil, Czechia and the United States. Each of them attest to the power of their faith to animate their lives and vocations as members of the LGBTQ+ community and of the universal church.| New Ways Ministry
Can Pope Leo be a counterbalance to Donald Trump's anti-LGBTQ+ policies?| New Ways Ministry
Pope Francis "helped to make the church more of a place where LGBTQ Catholics, and their families and friends, feel welcomed and valued.”| New Ways Ministry
Once again, a Syracuse, N.Y. parish is showing that the best way to fight oppression is to respond with fearless and positive actions.| New Ways Ministry
The guidelines are intended to offer practical advice for pastoral ministers as they impart blessings to ". . . couples of all gender identities and sexual orientations. . . "| New Ways Ministry
Much like Pride parade-goers, on the first Pentecost, the disciples are so full of life that they burn brightly with it and shout it from the rooftops.| New Ways Ministry
The women want to "transmit to him our strength, the same thing that he brought to us in the difficult time of the pandemic."| New Ways Ministry
Cornerstones| New Ways Ministry
Catholic LGBTQ+ Leaders React to the Death of Pope Francis| New Ways Ministry
Coming Out and Seeing a New Heaven and a New Earth| New Ways Ministry
A Light That Continues to Shine: When Pope Francis Blessed Our Journey| New Ways Ministry
“You are my Beloved, my chosen one! You are made in my image and likeness.”| New Ways Ministry
"The LGBTQI+ people I met are Pilgrims of Hope. They hold on to that hope despite centuries of oppression; they even hold on to hope when glimmers of light are snatched from them."| New Ways Ministry
This was the second time in less than two weeks that a USSCB leader has praised Trump for executive orders which will have negative effects on transgender and nonbinary people.| New Ways Ministry
"Cardinal McElroy and Bishop Budde look like they are going to get along very well in Washington, D.C."| New Ways Ministry
Where is the USCCB’s boldness on all these human rights issues?| New Ways Ministry
"One person told me that the way they were banished, shunned and even hated led them to the conclusion that being gay made them a modern-day leper."| New Ways Ministry
In today’s political and ecclesial climate, I can so easily feel disillusioned by setbacks. . .King’s legacy reminds us of the power – and the danger – of dreams.| New Ways Ministry
A catalog of Scripture reflections to aid your celebration of the upcoming Advent season.| New Ways Ministry
Recently, our parish held a Mass in anticipation of the Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR), which the world marks today, and this year I had good news to share after meeting Pope Francis.| New Ways Ministry
Of the three main characters in the story—the father, the elder son, the younger son—which do we each think best reflects my experience?| New Ways Ministry
At least one diocese in Uganda has applauded the country's president for signing a new law further criminalizing LGBTQ+ people that includes the death penalty as a sanction, while Catholic politicians were key to the law's passage. Ahead of the law's passage, LGBTQ+ advocates appealed to Pope Francis for intervention. Will he do so now?| New Ways Ministry
Pope Francis has re-affirmed in clear terms his recent denouncement of laws that criminalize being LGBTQ+, joined this time by leaders of two other Christian denominations.| New Ways Ministry
Pope Francis has denounced laws that criminalize LGBTQ+ people, saying "being homosexual is not a crime" and that bishops needed to undergo "a process of conversion" to be more affirming.| New Ways Ministry
“Dignitas Infinita, while often clear-sighted and practical in the best traditions of Catholic theology, fails to apprehend even the basic situation of transgender people and therefore provides no useful intellectual or moral guidance either for transgender Catholics or for their families, friends, and colleagues,” writes Daniel Walden in a critique of the declaration published by Commonweal.| New Ways Ministry
Dignitas Infinita’s statements should be read as “boundaries, warning signals, and challenges for moralists and public-policy leaders” rather than as pastoral guidelines, writes Cathleen Kaveny in a recent essay on the Vatican declaration.| New Ways Ministry
The Vatican needed more “flesh and blood” in its recent instruction on human dignity.| New Ways Ministry
Maura Tumulty argues that "Dignitas Infinita" discusses transgender people and transgender rights in a “murky and unclear” way, providing little knowledge and information in the sections titled “Gender Theory” and “Sex Change."| New Ways Ministry
Might there still be a meal waiting for LGBTQ+ people and allies even in this desert?| New Ways Ministry
