The Wild Reed

Above: Yayo Grassi (left), an openly gay man, and his partner, Iwan, greet Pope Francis with a warm hug at the Vatican Embassy in Wasingto...

E ver since the 2014 Family Synod , some Catholic bishops (and Pope Francis himself) have expressed criticism of what they refer to as “gend...

A compilation of quotes and links to articles and commentaries about the final report of the Third Extraordinary General Assembly of the Sy...

Read in conjunction with the recent document by the International Theological Commission on interpreting the sensus fidelium , the attitude...

We must never forget that while the countries outside of Europe and Northern America appear to be “behind” the rest of the world in LGBT e...

. F or LGBT people around the world, the rainbow is celebrated as a symbol of sexual and gender diversity. South Africans adopted it with t...

When I was a little boy growing up in Australia, my introduction to an orchestra was through two things. The first was the Little Golden Boo...

It is simply not true that “the Catholic Church” is hostile to LGBT people. Instead, we have a church with a split personality. On the one h...

The core problem with Catholic bishops’ pronouncements on gay marriage, and on human sexuality more generally, is that they are usually base...

. A recent remark by Archbishop Nienstedt could be interpreted as encouraging us to rediscover the sacred call to seek, discern and lovin...