Hundreds of thousands of families are attending the World Meeting of Families, including those with same sex parents. Currents News Michelle Powers speaks with one “rainbow family” as the meeting in Dublin discusses the role of LGBT Catholics in the Church. Via Currents News. For more information on Equally Blessed’s […]
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Dublin, Ireland was chosen by Pope Francis to host the next World Meeting of Families from August 21-26, and we are the only LGBTQI Catholic coalition in the world to have official representation there. Marianne Duddy-Burke, Executive Director of DignityUSA, will attend the event with her wife and children to […]
– For immediate release – Time: Monday, 20th August at 4.00pm Place: Trinity School of Religion, ISE-Loyola Building, Trinity College Dublin Dr. Mary McAleese, will launch the Wijngaards Institute’s new academic research report on ‘LGBT Catholics & Gender Theologies’ during a press conference on Monday, August 20. This will be followed by a panel discussion confronting […]
No official in the Catholic Church has any credibility when speaking on issues of sexuality, gender, or relationships. If that was not already obvious, it became compellingly clear with the release of the Pennsylvania attorney general’s report on a grand jury investigation into more than 1,000 cases of sexual abuse […]
During a recent interview with Spanish newspaper El Pais, Juan Carlos Cruz — a Chilean sex abuse survivor — shared a groundbreaking anecdote from a meeting with Pope Francis. After the pope apologized for the abuse Cruz suffered at the hands of church leaders, Cruz said he opened up to Francis about the trauma that […]
Pope Francis has reportedly told a gay male survivor of clerical sexual abuse that his sexual orientation comes from God. Juan Carlos Cruz said that in a private meeting about the Chilean sexual abuse scandal, Pope Francis said, “Look Juan Carlos, the pope loves you this way. God made you like […]
Francis DeBernardo, executive director of New Ways Ministry, which advocates for equality for LGBT Catholics, said the pope’s comments were “tremendous” and would do a lot of good. “It would do a lot better if he would make these statements publicly, because LGBT people need to hear that message from […]
Since 2010, the founding members of the Equally Blessed Coalition have worked collectively and individually to educate, to inspire, and to prompt Catholics to take action in the church and in the wider culture on behalf of LGBTQI people, their families, and friends. Fortunate Families, one of the founding members […]
The Liturgy Coordinator position reports to CTA’s Conference Coordinator and is responsible for coordinating and providing quality liturgical experiences that celebrate and strengthen the CTA community as they gather for their annual conference. Responsibilities include the planning, training, recruiting and scheduling of ministers and liturgical artists (including environmental designer, musicians, […]
As Catholic feminists and leaders of organizations committed to justice for women within our church as well as throughout society, we have followed Voices of Faith’s efforts to crack open the Vatican walls by sponsoring an annual forum about women inside one of the last remaining bastions of male domination in the […]