After 23 years in Chicago parishes, the question had pushed its way to the surface.
He weighed his options. He thought about his parishioners. Many, he knew, were accepting of gay people, even of same-sex marriage, but … Continue reading
The Man Who Buried Them Remembers
By Mark S. King
When he conducted the funerals, Tom Bonderenko tells me, he always wore his priestly garments and white stole. Even when no one showed up for the graveside service.
“It was important to show dignity and respect,”
Episcopal leader: Church will not reverse gay marriage stand
Presiding Bishop Michael Curry said Friday the U.S. Episcopal Church will not roll back its acceptance of gay marriage despite sanctions imposed this week by Anglican leaders.
In a phone interview from England, where he attended
WATCH: Inside A LGBT-Friendly Catholic Church
Documentary filmmaker Eric Kruszewski shows that being Catholic and being gay are not mutually exclusive.
To identify as a gay devout Catholic seems contradictory to many people—and for good reason. The Church, both historically and presently, continues
Exclusive: Vatican Meets with U.S. State Department’s Gay and Lesbian Envoy
A symbolic meeting to open a controversial dialog
The encounter took place in a non-descript room at the Vatican, and conversation stuck to regular diplomatic briefs. But for the parties involved on Tuesday morning, the meeting held
Vatican synod calls for a more welcoming Catholic Church
Deeply divided clerics at a landmark Vatican summit echoed the more inclusive tone of Pope Francis on Saturday, extending more welcoming language to divorced and gay Catholics but stopping short of calling for clear alterations in policy
Pro-LGBT Catholic pastors, bishop met in Rome for pre-Synodal conference
By Emmanuele Barbieri
Around a hundred people gathered at the Pilgrim Centre “Santa Teresa Couderc” in Rome, for the international conference entitled Ways of Love: Snapshots of Catholic Encounters With LGBT People and Their Families, sponsored by the “Global
Church language and sexuality
Archbishop: Family ministry is giving more love to those most in need
By Cindy Wooden
Chicago Archbishop Blase J. Cupich told reporters that something his mother once said might give the Synod of Bishops a way to balance the need to affirm church teaching while reaching out to those who are struggling.
Fired Polish priest: ‘no gay lobby in Vatican’
Krzysztof Charamsa told a private Italian television channel