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A psychologist’s tips for LGBTQ Catholics struggling with the holidays

Views Mary Kate Roohan, PsyD, RDT / November 25, 2024

Dr. Mary Kate Roohan offers practical skills and tips for LGBTQ Catholics who struggle with difficult family dynamics, especially during the holiday season.

A guided prayer for LGBTQ Catholics struggling through the holidays

Views Angelo Jesus Canta, SJ / November 25, 2024

Some LGBTQ Catholics face challenges during the holidays, particularly when family dynamics cause conflict. Here’s a way to use Ignatian prayer to help create calm conditions.

Jesus is not the kind of king many of us want

Views James Martin, S.J. / November 23, 2024

Jesus Christ is the king of poverty, the king of humility and the king of the marginalized. Let us follow him.

In ‘Communion,’ a gay teacher wrestles with losing his job and finding his faith

Views Rob Weinert-Kendt / November 22, 2024

Matthew LaBanca’s “ministerial exception” case has not seen the inside of a courtroom, but the versatile actor/writer is now litigating it theatrically in his moving one-man show “Communion.”

Is this the end of the world?

Views James Martin, S.J. / November 16, 2024

The reason that apocalyptic literature is for the “dispossessed” is that it often comes in response to the suffering of peoples, and points them to a future in which God’s justice and mercy are made fully manifest.