Subject: Request for Greater Compassion in LGBT+ Ministry Dear Bishop [Last Name], I write to you as a member of our diocese who values...

As a gay Catholic, I’ve often paradoxically felt invisible and under a microscope. At once alone and forgotten by the church, yet under...

What is the vocation of someone who experiences exclusive or predominately same-sex attractions?

He asked me to call him something other than his legal name—I didn’t feel comfortable with that.

I was heavily influenced in high school and college by my involvement with FOCUS and absorbed the oft-preached contrast between...

Parents of queer children share many of the same fears as their children when it comes to being outed.

Catholicism stifles her children by discouraging them from coming out.

Pro-life means to care for the whole person, Catholics will bring the baby into the world but then throw the queers out with the bathwater.

Faithful pastoral care of same-sex-attracted Catholics is more than educating them on an orthodox sexual ethic.

Accompaniment involves respect for how someone follows their conscience and a belief that our presence in someone's life is a gift.

Why does Catholicism call LGBT people to deep, meaningful friendships but struggle to connect with this community?

There’s a unique thrill to critiquing great theological writers, and C.S. Lewis has not escaped my reach.

People don’t stay Catholic because the people are perfect. Few communities understand this as acutely as LGBT Catholics.

The response to the Olympic opening ceremony is another clear example of how the church fails to love those it calls enemies.

I don’t understand how people who went to daily mass could treat me like this.

As a vocal Catholic acquiring a philosophy degree at a secular state school, I brashly weaved Catholic philosophy into all of my papers.

Falling in love with mountaineering has altered my life in so many ways, but it hasn’t changed the fact that I’m still scared of heights.

I was on a call with a handful of Catholic guys who are all gay, trying to create something unusual: a local gathering for LGBT Catholics.

One thing kept tripping up my conversations with vocations directors: I had to tell them I was attracted to men.

Can we just let queer people in our churches? Like actually show up in our churches.