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What’s So Doctrinal About Gender Normative Clothing?
Jessica Urbina, left, with a friend for senior portraits A San Francisco high school had removed a student’s yearbook photo because the young woman wore a tuxedo for her senior photos. Though the high...
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Do Bishops or Politicians Know More About Catholics and LGBT Issues?
A couple in Malta celebrates new national progress on LGBT equality. Recent news out of Malta concerning Catholics and sexuality/gender issues seems to contradict information released by the nation’s...
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British Bishops Write Positively on Gender Transition and Civil Unions
The Catholic Bishops Conference of England and Wales (CBCEW) has had a reputation for being more pro-LGBT than most of their counterparts in other nations. From the days in the 1980s when Cardinal...
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Italian Transgender Relationship Tests Church and State Definitions of Marriage
A transgender marriage case in Italy may be paving the way for that nation to legalize civil unions, despite the powerful opposition of the Catholic hierarchy there to such an action. The second...
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Trans Students Celebrate Openly During Catholic Graduations
Two moments this graduation season highlighted the positive gains being made in Catholic education for transgender students, forgoing the controversies of past years for moments of celebration instead....
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Transgender Woman Prepares to Enter Carmelite Convent
One of the places where Catholicism and gender are most strongly inscribed together is the area of vowed religious life. There are communities for only men and other communities for only women. What...
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Catholic Schools To Recognize Students’ Chosen Gender Identities
Tracey Wilson, the impetus behind the Catholic schools’ transgender-inclusive policy change In an historic policy, Catholic schools in the Canadian city of Vancouver will recognize transgender students...
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NEWS NOTES: July 28, 2014
Here are some items that you might find of interest: 1) LGBT Catholics in Chicago have been remembering the life and ministry of Jerry McEnany, the founder of that city’s Archdiocesan Gay and Lesbian...
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NEWS NOTES: September 2, 2014
Here are some items that you might find of interest: 1) Catholics United, a faith-based political organization, has called on Archbishop Charles Chaput to do more to show support for transgender people...
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DignityUSA Highlights Transgender Spirituality in Essay Series
James & Evelyn Whitehead DignityUSA’s fall newsletter focused on transgender spirituality through three essays by James and Evelyn Whitehead, who open the discussion by saying it is “time to talk”...
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Murdered Transgender Woman’s Catholic Funeral Is a Moment of Hope and Healing
” ‘We don’t eat without praying first. We don’t sleep without saying a prayer. Where were you [God] when this happened?…She had so many dreams and that killer destroyed them all’ “ These are the...
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Filipino Religious Superiors Affirm Their Solidarity with Murdered...
Demonstrators call for justice in the case of murder victim Jennifer Laude Catholic leaders in the Philippines are demanding justice for a transgender woman allegedly murdered by a US soldier, further...
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Jesuit Students Honor UCA Martyrs with Transgender Education and Justice
Teach-In participants remember the martyrs in prayer Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance, when people worldwide will remember those transgender people who died this past year as a result of...
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Art Show on Queer Saints Plays with Depictions of Gender
Artwork displayed in the “Queer Santas” show. How does gender inform understandings of Catholic saints? An art exhibit at the Pacific School of Religion is rethinking those understandings by playing...
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CAMPUS CHRONICLES: There is Much to Be Grateful For in Catholic Higher Ed...
It is becoming a mantra for me: Catholic higher education in the US is a bright light for the church and the world when it comes to LGBT justice. Bondings 2.0‘s “Campus Chronicles” series often reports...
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LGBTQ Children in Catholic Families: A Deacon’s View of Holy Family Sunday
Today’s post is written by a guest blogger: Deacon Ray Dever of St. Paul Catholic Church, Tampa, Florida. On this first Sunday after Christmas, the Church observes the feast of the Holy Family. And...
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Resolve to Create a Trans* Epiphany in 2015
Leelah Alcorn One question is occupying my mind on today’s Feast of the Epiphany: what does God’s rupture into humanity mean following a 17-year-old trans* girl’s suicide? Leelah Alcorn walked onto a...
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The Pope, the Archbishop, & the Lesbian: Hopes for the Philippines Encounter
As he journeys to the Philippines this week, Pope Francis will be met there by an archbishop who, like the pontiff, is opening the door to greater openness to the LGBT community. He can also listen to...
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Psychological and Spiritual Explorations of the Transgender Experience
Transgender people and issues are still new and unknown to many people in the LGBT and ally community. While decades of information and experience have taught our church and world so much about sexual...
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Pope Francis Reportedly Meets with Transgender Man Rejected by Parish
Diego Neria Lejárraga According to a Spanish newspaper report, Pope Francis recently held a private meeting at the Vatican with a transgender man and his fiancee. Diego Neria Lejárraga had written to...
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