20+ hour, 11+ min ago   (1091+ words) Years before I became Catholic, I spent time discerning with an Anglican monastic community. One of their 49 rules focused on the practice of receiving Communion. In a community where the Eucharist was received almost daily, the concern was not whether…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (389+ words) This is one reason Homer’s Odyssey remains so resonant for LGBTQ Catholics. Beneath its familiar story of homecoming, the epic is deeply concerned with the stranger. LGBTQ Catholics are not strangers to Catholicism at all; rather, we can experience the…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (715+ words) Lea este artículo en el español original aquí. “The fundamental dignity of each person, therefore, is neither acquired nor earned, nor does it need to be justified.” –Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV In 1991, in Washington, D.C., I came out…...

1+ week, 18+ hour ago   (734+ words) The following essay is excerpted from a forthcoming collection entitled: “Faithful Loves: Stories of LGBTQI+ Catholic Families.” Currently under contract with Paulist Press, the book explores how the faith of LGBTQ+ Catholics is lived out in the context of family....

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (187+ words) In 2013, when Pope Francis, aboard a plane returning to Rome from Rio de Janeiro, uttered his famous words: “If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge?,” his statement shone like a…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (228+ words) Outreach asked some of the world’s leading Catholic theologians and scholars to reflect on the import of the work of Study Group 9: what it means for the church and for LGBTQ Catholics. We hope this series helps you as well…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (339+ words) Outreach will lead a group of pilgrims to New York City, September 25-27, 2026, journeying through the LGBTQ Catholic experience in New York City, especially during the HIV/AIDS epidemic, remembering the lives that have been lost, celebrating the progress that has…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (561+ words) “Our emphasis…is on renewing the presbyterate by identifying men with a genuine vocation and the capacity for priestly formation, while ensuring that formation itself is responsive to their individual needs,” writes John C. Cavadini, a professor of theology at…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (330+ words) Outreach asked some of the world’s leading Catholic theologians and scholars to reflect on the import of the work of Study Group 9: what it means for the church and for LGBTQ Catholics. We hope this series helps you as well…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (590+ words) The two authors are clear that some suggestions are their own: “At points, the conclusions presented here represent not a simple synthesis of participant opinion, but the authors’ own prudential judgment, shaped by—yet not reducible to—the perspectives offered…...