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Pope Francis Tells LGBTQ+ Italian Group to Seek Church “That Excludes No One”| New Ways Ministry
Gender-neutral housing will now be available at Georgetown University next fall for first year students thanks to a pilot program at the Jesuit school in Washington, D.C.| New Ways Ministry
Pope Leo, LGBTQ+ Catholics, and the Church We Long For, Part I| New Ways Ministry
Unity is a mark of the Church, but it cannot be preserved at the expense of truth and justice. The post Pope Leo, LGBTQ+ Catholics, and the Church We Long For, Part I appeared first on New Ways Ministry.| New Ways Ministry
Prepare sermons and reflections with LGBTQ+ dimensions for October! The post Homily and Personal Reflection Aids for October 2025 appeared first on New Ways Ministry.| New Ways Ministry
"The Church is failing to provide a place to exist or a refuge where you can seek authenticity and inner serenity." The post Empty Chairs at the Jubilee for African Queer Catholics appeared first on New Ways Ministry.| New Ways Ministry
"When have I, knowingly or unknowingly, aligned with the powers of empire by excluding or diminishing other marginalized groups?" The post The Reign of God or The Forces of Empire? appeared first on New Ways Ministry.| New Ways Ministry
"He's sending the message that he wants to keep the Catholic Church united. That's traditionally the Pope's task. But he must not lose the forces of reform. . . ." The post German Church Leaders Offer Differing Views on Pope Leo’s LGBTQ+ Remarks appeared first on New Ways Ministry.| New Ways Ministry
"I find it highly unlikely, certainly in the near future, that the church’s doctrine in terms of what the church teaches about sexuality, what the Church teaches about marriage, [will change].” The post Affirming Pastoral Welcome, Pope Leo Is Skeptical LGBTQ+ Church Teaching Will Change appeared first on New Ways Ministry.| New Ways Ministry
"Such a thing contradicts our Christian view of humanity and must have no place in our church, which is supposed to stand for tolerance, respect, and diversity.” The post Two Catholic Bishops Condemn Disrespect for the Pride Flag appeared first on New Ways Ministry.| New Ways Ministry
How the Italian Catholic LGBTQ+ movement emerged and grew. The post Tracing the Journey: LGBTQ+ Catholics in Italy from the 1970s to Today appeared first on New Ways Ministry.| New Ways Ministry
"This is what it feels like not to hide. I don’t have to hide… From the day I made that decision, I was never afraid again.”| New Ways Ministry
"This pilgrimage added a spiritual dimension: to feel God’s love for who I am, just as for all of God’s children, including LGBTQ+ people."| New Ways Ministry
Bishop: Pentecost Reminds the Church That All Are Welcome| New Ways Ministry
Pope Francis has written a supportive note to a Catholic sister who works with transgender...| New Ways Ministry
By Bob Shine, New Ways Ministry, October 3, 2016 Pope Francis twice opined on LGBT...| New Ways Ministry
Pope Francis held a private meeting with a transgender man and his fiancee, according to Spanish newspaper reports.| New Ways Ministry
Pope Francis Sends Almoner to Help Transgender Community Affected by COVID-19| New Ways Ministry
The Animated, Extravagant and Flamboyant Spirit of God| New Ways Ministry
J O U R N E Y S| New Ways Ministry
Parents Protest Firing of Gay Teacher from a Catholic School| New Ways Ministry
Voices from the LGBTQ+ Jubilee Year Pilgrimage, Part 1| New Ways Ministry
LGBTQ+ Catholic groups are getting ready to participate in the Jubilee, not in spite of their queerness, but through it.| New Ways Ministry
The prayers, courage, and efforts of grassroots Catholics over decades who kept gently insisting that LGBTQ + people are people of deep faith who should have equal status in the Church were the stepping stones of this historic pilgrimage.| New Ways Ministry
The historic LGBTQ+ pilgrimage takes place today, but the celebrations started yesterday with three special events.| New Ways Ministry
“To exclude a family based on sexual orientation. . .sends a harmful message. . .that some people are unworthy of belonging. This is not the lesson our children should learn from a Catholic school.”| New Ways Ministry
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.| 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."| New Ways Ministry
“The measure of a nation's moral health is how it treats its most vulnerable."| 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."| New Ways Ministry
"I find it difficult when, with regard to the issue of gender, the immediate response is: That's ideology."| New Ways Ministry
"Longman’s journey is a reminder that faith, like identity, is not something to be handed to you. . ."| New Ways Ministry
Speaking our truth about our sexual or gender identity may indeed bring about hostile reactions, but . . .| 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!”| 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…"| New Ways Ministry
The event was "a historic turning of the page which opens the door to healing a spiritual wound."| 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
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
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
