LGBTQ

Faith and Family: Learn with Me

Susan Hines-Brigger May 24, 2024

If there's anything I’m 100 percent certain about, it is the fact that there are so many things I still need to learn more about.

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Book Briefs

Daniel Imwalle May 24, 2024

Enjoy these reviews of new books for summer reading!

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A man is seen in a file photo walking out of a church. Eden Invitation, an LBGTQ+ outreach based in St. Paul, Minn., recently announced it has trained its first "priest companions'' to accompany the organization's Hearth Groups, or local chapters, and be available for spiritual guidance, to administer the sacraments and to build community. Father Nathan Hall, a pastor in Lincoln, Neb., is among Eden Invitation's first priest companions. (OSV News photo/Harald Oppitz, KNA, CNS)

Pastor is one of first ‘priest companions’ for Eden Invitation LGBTQ+ outreach

OSV News February 29, 2024

Catholics in the Diocese of Lincoln with same-sex desires or gender discordance have a program they can turn to for help in living a chaste life within the Catholic Church: Eden Invitation.

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Editorial: Missing the Message on Same-Sex Blessings

Susan Hines-Brigger February 25, 2024

Pope Francis and the dicastery made it very clear—time and time again—throughout the document that a blessing is not the same as legitimizing a same-sex marriage.

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IVs in a hospital | Photo by insung yoon on Unsplash

What If a Pope Becomes Comatose?

Pat McCloskey, OFM August 24, 2023

When I heard that Pope Francis was undergoing surgery requiring general anesthesia, I wondered who would be in charge of the Church while he was incapacitated.

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Global synod’s discussion of LGBTQ+ raises pastoral questions

OSV News July 13, 2023

Those who minister to, or are part of, the community of people who identify as LGBTQ+ have observed a noted shift with respect to them and their concerns in the working document for the Catholic Church's forthcoming synod of bishops ...

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