Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer News & Polics

Contents:

• 'GAY AND CATHOLIC': A Q&A WH WRER AND SPEAKER EVE TH
• GAY PRITS: BREAKG THE SILENCE
• GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
• WHY THREE GAY CATHOLICS LEFT THE CHURCH – AND WHY THEY RETURNED
• LIBERAL RDAL LLS FOR REVISED CATHOLIC TEACHG ON GAYS
• WHY CHOOSE CELIBACY? A GAY CATHOLIC SPEAKS OUT

'GAY AND CATHOLIC': A Q&A WH WRER AND SPEAKER EVE TH

Per the Catechism of the Catholic Church, “homosexual acts” are nmned Catholicism, but homosexualy self is not nsired a s.

The Church doctre enurag members to wele and rpect gay parishners, though also stat that gay members are “lled to chasty, ” acrdg to the Human Rights Campaign s asssment of the Church’s stance on LGBTQ issu. But an appearance a documentary released October 2020, Francis dited support for same-sex civil unns, llg gay Catholics “children of God” who “have a right to a fay. The Vatin this month opposed an anti-homophobia law troduced Italy’s Parliament, which uld require some Catholic schools the untry to adopt state-mandated lsons on tolerance and genr, CNN reported last week.

GAY PRITS: BREAKG THE SILENCE

The Catholic Church has not ma any chang to doctre ncerng LGBTQ people, and acrdg to s techism, homosexual acts are “trsilly disorred.

GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT

On Father’s Day (June 19), Alex Shgleton and Landon Duyka, a civilly married gay uple wh two dghters, stood before ngregants at Old Sat Patrick’s Church the Archdce of Chigo to read a reflectn on the hoy. “In all honty, if you had told as young boys who wasted untls hours of our liv church tryg to ‘pray the gay away’ that we someday would be standg ont of all of you our Catholic Church talkg about our fay on Father’s Day, we would never have believed you, ” they said their reflectn.

WHY THREE GAY CATHOLICS LEFT THE CHURCH – AND WHY THEY RETURNED

Yet, spe the welg signals, the Vatin’s Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah issued a statement March 2021 banng the blsg of gay upl, cg the ncern that fahful might nsir such unns equivalent to marriage between a man and a woman and statg that the Catholic Church “nnot bls s. Pietro Morotti and Giao Spagnoli, a gay uple Bologna, Italy, were among those who voiced on social media their disappotment the Vatin ban.

LIBERAL RDAL LLS FOR REVISED CATHOLIC TEACHG ON GAYS

In 2020, the rdal wrote another preface for a book by Italian journalist Luciano di Moia, “The Church and Homosexualy, ” offerg pastoral guil to mister to gay Catholics. “When our muni will beg to tly see people as God se them, cludg homosexual people and everyone else, they will naturally beg to feel part of the ecclial muny, on the way, ” Zuppi wrote the preface to the book by di Moia. Bryan Massgale, an openly gay Catholic prit and profsor of theology and social ethics at Fordham Universy, said prits who want to engage pastoral outreach to the gay and lbian muny “will ntue to do so, except that will be even more unr the table...

WHY CHOOSE CELIBACY? A GAY CATHOLIC SPEAKS OUT

”Vatin doctre holds that gays and lbians should be treated wh digny and rpect, but that gay sex is “trsilly disorred” and that same-sex unns are sful. “Pope Francis has been unr nsirable prsure by gay activists, and out of the church, to give the green light to gay marriage, ” Donohue add, llg Monday’s statement “the most cisive rejectn of those efforts ever wrten. ”Francis has endorsed providg legal protectns for same-sex upl, but that is the civil sphere and not the Carlos Cz, a Chilean advote for sex-abe victims who is gay, reported 2018 that when he met wh Francis, the pope had told him, “God ma you like this, and he lov you.