The documentary “Wonderfully Made" aims to welcome "LGBTQ+ people to reconnect with the spiritual realm in a way that hopefully speaks to them by depicting Jesus as suffering with and for them."
While some U.S. Catholic bishops recently signed a statement in support of LGBTQ youth, others released a statement opposing a Biden executive order extending federal nondiscrimination protections to LGBTQ people.
More than 100 vehicles parked across from Indianapolis' Catholic Center for a socially distant "Rally for Equality Caravan," calling on the archbishop to roll back new Catholic school policies on transgender students.
Frank D'Amore, director of the local group for LGBT Catholics, said that despite the archdiocesan mandate, Dignity Detroit will continue. "We're not having liturgy because of the virus. But we are alive and well."
Your thoughts: NCR readers are welcome to join the conversation and send us a letter to the editor. Below is a sampling of letters received in the month of October 2019.
Dignity was founded in 1969 in San Diego by Fr. Patrick Nidorf, an Augustinian priest and psychologist who felt that the pastoral needs of his city's gay Catholic community were being ignored.
Grace on the Margins: If World Meeting of Families organizers had any hope of playing down LGBTQ issues in the church, LGBTQ Catholic activists and their allies dashed those aspirations this week in Dublin.
DignityUSA responded to the World Meeting of Families office's reissue of the "Amoris" resource booklet without an image of a same-sex couple which was reproduced in the first edition on page 24.
"The main issue centers around scandal and confusion," says a communication from the vicar general, encouraging pastors to contact the Bishop Robert Morlino for guidance.
