News and Views
Articles by Emma Cieslik
The need to chronicle and preserve queer Catholic history
Views Emma Cieslik / Bernard Schlager / December 9, 2022The project interviews people who were raised in Catholic communities “or [who] come from families where Catholicism has a dominant and discernable presence in their lives.”
Purity culture and sex-based shame warped my faith. I am still trying to heal.
Views Emma Cieslik / August 22, 2022Years of silence about queerness and homophobia, both blatant and implied, instilled in me a fear that my family would reject me and that religion would be more important than this part of myself. I feared would have to give up faith if I wanted to be queer.