Category: LGBTQ

Diocese distances itself from deacon’s comment after Colorado killings

by bcadmin | Nov 22, 2022 | California, Colorado, Colorado Springs, Diocese of Oakland, LGBTQ, LGBTQ nightclub, News, Twitter, U.S. & World News | 0 |

The Diocese of Oakland, California, issued a statement of support for those suffering after a Nov. 19 attack on an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado.

In wake of shooting, Colorado Springs bishop backs tighter gun control

by bcadmin | Nov 22, 2022 | Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila, Church in the US, Diocese of Colorado Springs, lead, LGBTQ, mass shooting, New Ways Ministry, News, Paulist Fathers | 0 |

Bishop James Golka has offered his “deepest sympathies and prayers” to all those affected by a mass shooting in Colorado Springs on Saturday, Nov. 19, saying it’s especially troubling that the shooter appeared to target the LGBTQ community.

Catholic leaders respond to shooting at Colorado nightclub

by bcadmin | Nov 22, 2022 | Anderson Lee Aldrich, Archbishop Aquila, Club Q, Colorado, Colorado Springs, Featured, LGBTQ, LGBTQ nightclub, News, U.S. & World News | 0 |

Catholic leaders have condemned the Nov. 19 attack on an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, that killed at least five people and injured at least 25.

Can the state force a religious university to violate its religious beliefs?

by bcadmin | Sep 2, 2022 | Catholic Universities, Franciscan University of Steubenville, Gender ideology, LGBTQ, News, The Dispatch, University of Notre Dame, University of St. Thomas, University of St. Thomas in Houston, Villanova, Yeshiva University | 0 |

In an emergency petition filed earlier this week, Yeshiva University—an Orthodox Jewish University—is asking the United States Supreme Court to block a New York court order mandating that Yeshiva recognize an LGBT “Pride Alliance” student […]

NCEA, other faith-based groups fight efforts to broaden scope of Title IX

by bcadmin | Aug 26, 2022 | Biden Administration, Catholic News Service, Catholic Schools, Church in the US, LGBTQ, News, Transgender | 0 |

A number of Catholic groups have joined in supporting an amicus brief filed in a court case on how the Biden administration’s proposal to broaden the interpretation of Title IX provisions could affect nonprofit organizations.

Omaha archdiocese defends transgender policy critics call exclusionary

by bcadmin | Aug 25, 2022 | Archdiocese of Omaha, Catholic education, Church in the US, Church teaching, lead, LGBTQ, New Ways Ministry, News | 0 |

The Archdiocese of Omaha has published a new transgender policy for archdiocesan schools that it holds changes nothing and just formalizes current practices, but one Catholic LGBTQ+ advocacy organization has called the policy exclusionary.

Lebanon LGBTQ community suffers setback amid wider clampdown

by bcadmin | Jul 18, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in the Middle East, Lebanon, LGBTQ, News | 0 |

Millions in the once middle-income country continue to struggle with soaring inflation, rampant power cuts, and medicine shortages, while tens of thousands have left the country in search of opportunities abroad.

First in-person LGBTQ ministry conference builds ‘sense of community’

by bcadmin | Jul 2, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Father James Martin, Gay ministry, LGBTQ, New Ways Ministry, News | 0 |

More than 200 people from all over the United States and Canada, as well as from the United Kingdom, Italy, Colombia and Uganda, gathered June 24-25 in New York City for the first in-person Outreach LGBTQ Catholic Ministry Conference.

Humpty Dumpty, the Corruption of Language, and the Destruction of Society

by bcadmin | Jun 12, 2022 | Aristotle, Benedict XVI, Disney, Essay, Étienne Gilson, Features, Homosexuality, Jesus Christ, language, Lewis Carroll, LGBTQ, logos, max picard, Msgr. Robert Sokolowski, News, Saint Thomas Aquinas, self-identification, sodomy | 0 |

Almost everyone is familiar with Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass. In one of its most famous passages, Carroll neatly encapsulates the central issue in the use and abuse of language: “When I use a […]

The queer perspective and flawed anthropology of Eve Tushnet

by bcadmin | Apr 12, 2022 | Books, Catechism, Chastity, Courage apostolate, eve tushnet, Features, Homosexuality, lesbianism, LGBTQ, News, Sexuality | 0 |

Writer Eve Tushnet, who says of herself that “being gay and Catholic is literally my job” has written a followup to her 2014 book Gay and Catholic: Accepting My Sexuality, Finding Community, Living My Faith. […]

HHS expected to propose health care rule on abortion, transgender services

by bcadmin | Apr 5, 2022 | Affordable Care Act, Biden, Catholic Benefits Association, Catholic hospitals, Cross-sex hormones, executive order, First Amendment rights, Gender-affirming cosmetic surgeries, Gender-transition surgeries, HHS, Leadership Conference, LGBTQ, News, Surgical abortion, Transgender mandate, U.S. & World News, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Voice modification, Xavier Becerra | 0 |

In early April, the leadership at the Catholic Benefits Association anticipated the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services would soon announce proposed regulations that could pose an existential threat to religious-based employers including Catholic hospitals.

Better to keep children chaste than to chasten John Fisher

by bcadmin | Mar 11, 2022 | Comment, John Fisher school, LGBTQ, News, Opinion, Simon Green, United Kingdom | 0 |

As the Catholic John Fisher school comes under fire for its decision to disinvite LGBTQ+ author Simon Green, Dr Gavin Ashenden notes that those demanding inclusivity are the most intolerant

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