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  • The Church and Ministry to the Marginalized 
    The Church and Ministry to the Marginalized 
    God in fact “takes us as we are, but never leaves us as we are” 
    • Pope Francis: If a person is gay and seeks out the Lord and is willing, who am I to judge that person? I was paraphrasing by heart the Catechism of the Catholic Church where it says that these people should be treated with delicacy and not be marginalized. I am glad that we are talking about “homosexual people” because before all else comes the individual person, in his wholeness and dignity. And people should not be defined only by their sexual tendencies: let us not forget that God loves all his creatures and we are destined to receive his infinite love. I prefer that homosexuals come to confession, that they stay close to the Lord, and that we pray all together. You can advise them.  Pope Francis. The Name of God Is Mercy (pp. 61-62). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. 

    • Pope Francis and Ministry to the LGBTQ+ community and their families

      "The answer to the proposed dubium does not preclude the blessings given to individual persons with homosexual inclinations, who manifest the will to live in fidelity to the revealed plans of God as proposed by Church teaching. Rather, it declares illicit any form of blessing that tends to acknowledge their unions as such. In this case, in fact, the blessing would manifest not the intention to entrust such individual persons to the protection and help of God, in the sense mentioned above, but to approve and encourage a choice and a way of life that cannot be recognized as objectively ordered to the revealed plans of God."  Responsum of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith

      "We would like before all else to reaffirm that every person, regardless of sexual orientation, ought to be respected in his or her dignity and treated with consideration, while ‘every sign of unjust discrimination’ is to be carefully avoided, par­ticularly any form of aggression and violence. Such families should be given respectful pasto­ral guidance, so that those who manifest a ho­mosexual orientation can receive the assistance they need to understand and fully carry out God’s will in their lives." Amoris Laetitia (The Joy of Love)  (No. 250).

      "This offers us a framework and a setting which help us avoid a cold bureaucratic morality in dealing with more sensitive issues. Instead, it sets us in the context of a pastoral discernment filled with merciful love, which is ever ready to understand, forgive, accompany, hope, and above all integrate. That is the mindset which should prevail in the Church and lead us to “open our hearts to those living on the outermost fringes of society” (Amoris Laetitia (The Joy of Love) No. 311-12).

    • News on issues affecting LGBTQ+ Catholics and their families

      • Catholic leaders call for end to violence against transgender people
        April 3
        Catholic leaders call for end to violence against transgender people
        Two Catholic bishops, six Catholic priests, the lay president of the Jesuit Volunteer Corps and two Catholic organizations issued a statement April 1 calling for an end to violence against transgender individuals.
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      • Speakers say Equality Act 'overly broad,' will harm religious liberty
        March 26
        Speakers say Equality Act 'overly broad,' will harm religious liberty
        A March 22 online webinar on the Equality Act focused on criticism that the legislation is so vaguely worded it would harm religious liberty and obscure biological reality.
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      • No one can be excluded from the care, love of the church, cardinal says
        March 18
        No one can be excluded from the care, love of the church, cardinal says
        While the Catholic Church cannot bless unions that are not sacramental marriages, the church will always welcome and accompany everyone, no matter their situation in life, said the prefect of the Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life.
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      • Vatican Responsum on Blessing Same Sex Unions
        March 16
        Vatican Responsum on Blessing Same Sex Unions
        TO THE QUESTION PROPOSED:  Does the Church have the power to give the blessing to unions of persons of the same sex? RESPONSE: Negative.
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      • Vatican rules out Church blessings for same-sex unions
        March 15
        Vatican rules out Church blessings for same-sex unions
        Responding to efforts in some parts of the Catholic world to devise “blessings” of same-sex unions by the Church, the Vatican’s doctrinal watchdog released a statement Monday saying that such blessings are “not legitimate,” as homosexual unions are “not ordered to the Creator’s plan.”
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      • Vatican says no blessing gay unions, no negative judgment on gay people
        March 15
        Vatican says no blessing gay unions, no negative judgment on gay people
        While homosexual men and women must be respected, any form of blessing a same-sex union is "illicit," said the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
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      • German bishop urges church debate on blessing same-sex unions
        March 14
        German bishop urges church debate on blessing same-sex unions
        The vice president of the German bishops’ conference has urged a debate on whether Catholic clergy should bless same-sex unions.
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      • Scottish Christian leaders say hate crime bill limits freedom to disagree
        February 16
        Scottish Christian leaders say hate crime bill limits freedom to disagree
        The Scottish government should withdraw parts of a hate crime bill because of the risk it will lead to the prosecution of people solely for disagreeing with gender ideology and same-sex marriage, said Catholic and Protestant leaders.
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      • U.S. bishops show their support for initiative to stop bullying of LGBT youth
        January 27
        U.S. bishops show their support for initiative to stop bullying of LGBT youth
        At least 10 U.S. Catholic bishops have signed a statement supporting the Tyler Clementi Foundation in standing up for at-risk LGBT youth in the United States and speaking out against bullying directed at them.
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      • Bishops say order on LBGTQ equality has implications for religious liberty
        January 25
        Bishops say order on LBGTQ equality has implications for religious liberty
        President Joe Biden's wide-ranging executive order to extend existing federal nondiscrimination protections to LGBTQ people exceeds the U.S. Supreme Court's June 2020 ruling on the issue in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, said the chairmen of five U.S. bishops' committees.
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