News and Views

More than 200 people from all over the United States and Canada, and from foreign nations like the United Kingdom, Italy, Colombia and Uganda, gathered for the first in-person Outreach LGBTQ Catholic Ministry Conference this past weekend in New York City.

Learn more about our 2022 Outreach Conference schedule and how to view livestreams of our keynote addresses.

We return to the question for the same reason that everyone else is: where does “welcoming” LGBTQ+ people end up capitulating to a cultural vision that is contrary to the gospel?

We are one human family walking forward together in faith, hope, and love. The whole church is a monstrance, the entire cosmos a tabernacle.

People who work with kids know that trust is a doorway to the heart and mind, and trust must be earned through the primacy of relationships. Christ prioritized this disposition—mercy first.

Yes, we are all sisters and brothers: but what exactly does that mean in terms of welcome and inclusion? That’s the question.

Where would the Sacred Heart be today? It would be poured out in love on these people who seek love and acceptance.

Imagine an LGBTQ+ youth weeping and kissing Jesus’s feet and wiping them with their hair.

“A Strange Loop,” which premiered on Broadway this spring and was nominated for 11 Tonys (including two for Jackson himself), is an enormously inventive, funny and challenging show.

The church cannot be absent from the dialogue and conversation about sexual orientation. If the church is absent from this conversation, it is absent at its own peril.