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The Outreach Guide to the Bible and Homosexuality
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What my aunt taught me about Catholic love and transgender acceptance
Article Maxwell KuzmaA family knows how to love a work in progress. There is space for you to be fully human, at every awkward stage.
SDI – The Home of Spiritual Direction and Companionship
OrganizationWe are a learning community that advocates for and supports the service of spiritual direction and spiritual companionship, for all who are on the journey.
Office of Ignatian Spirituality
OrganizationThe Office of Ignatian Spirituality (OIS), a ministry of the Jesuits on the East Coast, works to promote the ministry of the Spiritual Exercises and to create opportunities for people to experience its graces.
Caring for the Transgender Patient: Lessons for Pastoral and Spiritual Care
Article Catholic Health Association of the United StatesGender has received a great deal of attention in the past 10 years. Hardly a day goes by that there is not a media report on the clinical, legal and ethical aspects of the transgender experience. All of these come together — or not — in the political blender where, on one hand, trans people are used as an icon of individual civil rights, or, on the other hand, as an example of moral and spiritual decline.
The Synod emphasized the lived experience of the faithful. This must include LGBTQ people.
Article Elizabeth Sweeny BlockGenuine reciprocal listening, dialogue and communal discernment would include a diversity of perspectives and make space for the LGBTQ community.
Catholic priest offers 10 insights for clergy on LGBTQ ministry
Article The Rev. Michael TrailAs priests, we have a responsibility to discern the Spirit of God with all members of the LGBTQ community.
My Catholic faith was enriched by the stories of LGBTQ people during the AIDS crisis
Article Michael O’LoughlinMy own journey as a gay man living out my faith in the Catholic Church has been bolstered by the opportunity to learn this history from the people who lived it.
Thank you, from Outreach
Article James Martin, S.J.I hope that God shows you things to be grateful for your in your lives as LGBTQ people, family members and allies. Happy Thanksgiving!
As a gay Protestant pastor, I have mixed reactions to the Synod report
Article Brandan RobertsonWhile I understand the challenge for the Synod to explicitly affirm LGBTQ people, these two references feel like too little at best and patronizing at worst.
Vatican document on baptizing transgender people calls lay Catholics to action
Article Michael SennettReflecting on this document, we must recognize that words can only do so much. They provide a framework, but the real work lies in our hands.