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What does it mean to be an LGBTQ Catholic?
2+ hour, 54+ min ago (212+ words) Editor's note: The following is the text of a homily given during Mass on June 19, 2026, in Dahlgren Chapel at Georgetown University, during the Outreach 2026 conference. What does it mean to be an LGBTQ Catholic? As Thomas Merton wrote, "For me…...
What if that were me?" A reflection on the Pulse Nightclub Massacre
2+ week, 2+ day ago (384+ words) I drove down to Orlando to visit Pulse with my mom for a memorial 4. 9 K run in June of 2022. It was six years after the horrific massacre of 49 people at the popular nightclub, and Pulse, with the local community, did…...
Walking with LGBTQ people entering the Catholic Church through O. C. I. A.
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (213+ words) The church's role is not to stand at the gate with a checklist, but to walk alongside, pointing again and again to Christ, who calls each person by name. Conversion is not about becoming someone else; it is about becoming…...
Catholic educator: Let's rethink LGBTQ ministry
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (918+ words) Before we're even out of the gate, there is an obstacle with the use of language. Can we say LGBTQ? Or is Q too ambiguous? What about same-sex attracted (SSA) or the more academic Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM)? And…...