In a series of recent public contributions, Cardinal Robert McElroy has called for reforming the Church’s pastoral practice related to sexual sin, on the grounds that the current approach is harmfully ...

The arc of Vatican rhetoric on sexual issues is long, and it doesn’t bend much at all. On October 30, 1986, the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith released a letter to bishops, “On ...

A directive released by the Vatican Tuesday banned practicing homosexuals, men with "deep-seated" homosexual tendencies and those who support gay culture from entering the Catholic priesthood. After a ...

Some Catholics pointed out that Pope Francis is a long way from endorsing same-sex marriage, but that his comments nevertheless signal a significant change in approach to the LGBT community. Pope ...

The Catholic Church’s history with gays and lesbians has been a sad one, and 1986 was a particularly painful year. At a time when the AIDS epidemic was ravaging the gay community, the Vatican ...

LGBTQ Roman Catholics had mixed emotions about the legacy of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who died in Rome on December 31. "He failed to listen to the lived experiences of real people," Francis ...

Officials at the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops have removed a link to New Ways Ministry from a resource page after they became aware that the U.S. bishops’ conference expressed its ...