Faith & the LGBTQ Community

Article

Facing Down the Wolf

A gay Catholic priest speaks about living fully, courageously, and truthfully in God’s all-encompassing love.

By James Alison

June 10, 2020

LGBTQ issues

Priesthood

Theology

Truth & Dignity

Journalist Michael O’Loughlin joins associate editor Matt Sitman for a behind-the-scenes conversation about his new podcast series “Plague: Untold Stories of AIDS & the Catholic Church.”

Article

Velvet & Pus

“To encounter the Catholic Church is to touch and smell and taste; to shiver. So too in the queer world.”

By Eve Tushnet

August 2, 2021

LGBTQ issues

Theology

U.S. Catholicism

Article

A Harmful Doctrine

The Catholic teaching about gay people is not just an error. It’s a barrier to compelling political witness.

By Mollie Wilson O’Reilly

December 30, 2019

Article

Necessary Affirmation

The LGBTQ ministry at St. Paul’s in Manhattan has been a balm within a church that continues to wound.

By Jason Steidl

March 23, 2020

The American Parish Today

Spirituality

Theology

LGBTQ issues

Article

‘Still Beloved’

In 1973, Reginald Adams was killed in one of many attacks on gay people in the United States. Now, a new grave commemorates his life and death.

By Robert Fieseler

June 10, 2022

LGBTQ issues

Death and Dying

The Last Word

Article

Anti-Trans Legislation

Legislation proposed across the country uses misinformation to target transgender children.

By Isabella Simon

May 23, 2022

LGBTQ issues

Domestic Affairs

Article

Homosexuality & the Church

Is the present crisis in Christian denominations over homosexuality really about sex? I don’t think so.

By Luke Timothy Johnson

June 11, 2007

U.S. Catholicism

LGBTQ issues

Sexuality

Article

Every week or so I discover yet another hidden treasure of the Church that speaks to me in exactly the way I need in order to deal specifically with my struggles, resentments, longings, and strengths as a woman and a lesbian.

Homosexuality & the Church: A Second View

By Eve Tushnet

June 11, 2007

Article

The More You Know

Nothing has changed me as much as being friends with gay people has. The theory, the doctrine, the dogma: it all disappears in the face of friendship and love.

By Jo McGowan

July 29, 2015

Article

Gender, Sex, and Other Nonsense

Catholic conversation about sex and gender has a problem.

By Daniel Walden

March 1, 2021

Gender

Sexuality

LGBTQ issues

Article

Understanding, Not Ultimatums

Continuing the conversation about sex and gender

By Daniel Walden

April 11, 2021

Sexuality

Gender

LGBTQ issues

Article

Coming Home

A gay Christian speaks to fundamentalists

By Jonathan Odell

January 11, 2010

Sexuality

Article

Legalize Same-Sex Marriage

Why law & morality can part company

By Paul J. Griffiths

June 28, 2004

Article

Created to Love

Human anthropology and sexual ethics are subject to change. But the knowledge that we were created in the divine image to love and be loved is eternal.

By Paul Lakeland

April 6, 2022

LGBTQ issues

Continuing the Conversation

Article

The thin notions of natural law deployed against same-sex marriage in recent times are unpersuasive, and, what’s more, they deserve to be unpersuasive