Welcome to All!
In November 2017, our Cardinal, Vincent Nichols, asked parishes in Westminster Diocese to look at how they could become welcoming parishes to the LGBT community. In response, in the parish of Our Lady Immaculate and St Andrew, Hitchin, in the same month, a small group of parishioners and priests began to meet to pray, discuss and discern our next steps as a parish.
This initiative was led by Fr Michael Lambert aa. In November 2018 Fr Michael was involved in an accident when he was walking back to the parish for a meeting of the ‘As I am’ group. Sadly Fr Michael did not recover and died on 2nd December 2018. The ‘As I am’ team are determined to continue his legacy as he guided the team to believe it was important that everyone in the parish feels they are loved and accepted by God and the parish as they are.
Welcome to all the Creator has created!
Welcome to our bodies, wriggly when newborn; restless in adolescence and bursting with God given sensuality; in later life still discovering who we are; and later still, holding the wondrous memory of all that juice and joy and gift of life.
All these transitions given to us as a great blessing.
Thank you God!
For our God given longing for loving friendships and relationships.
Thank you God!
Boys will sigh for girls, and girls for boys.
Thank you God.
Boys will sigh for boys and girls for girls.
Thank you God.
Some sigh and search for their true identity
Thank you God.
All search for their deep authentic self.
Beloved by God.
Let’s awaken, and open our hearts to the gifts each of us brings to the parish and our communities.
Let’s make ourselves ready for wholeness, and the holiness of being all together.
If you are an LGBT person and would like to talk to someone in our parish community, our priests are happy to be contacted and to offer open and friendly support. This invitation is also extended to anyone who is a parent, family member or friend of an LGBT person. Our priests would like to say “We are not professional counsellors. We are always learning in our pastoral encounters. We may be clumsy about some things we might say. We will be there to accompany you, sharing a journey of discovery.”
Fr. Tom O’Brien – 07547 171570 – thomasobrien@rcdow.org.uk
Fr. Andrew O’Dell – 01462 459126
Parents of LGBT+People Support – Sue is a founder member of Called-To-Be-One an informal phone support for Catholic parents of LGBT daughters and sons. She can be contacted on 01642 465 020.
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Parents if you would like to talk, informally and in complete confidence, to a Catholic parent with personal experience with both homosexuality and transitioning within a Catholic family, please contact trishbonnett@rcdow.org.uk who will put you in touch with someone.
LGBT Catholics Westminster assist at the 5.30pm Farm Street Parish Mass and host a social afterwards on the 2nd and 4th Sunday of each month. The LGBT Catholics Westminster Pastoral Council work is recognised as a chaplaincy by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Westminster.
The social is informal, relaxed, warm and friendly and open to all in Farm Street parish and any visitors. Westminster Diocese’s LGBT Chaplain, Mgr. Keith Barltrop (keithbarltrop@rcdow.org.uk) is often present. Others attending include members from the groups below:
LGBT+Catholics Westminster : www.lgbtcatholicswestminster.org www.facebook.com/lgbtcatholicswestminster
Young Adults Group (YAG) : www.lgbtcatholicsyag.org.uk
Quest : www.questgaycatholic.org.uk
Courage : (email) london.courage@gmail.com
TranschristianUK :www.facebook.com/groups/129546282786208 – sponsored by the Sibyls : www.sibyls.co.uk
Chrzescijanie LGBTQ : www.wiara-tecza.pl
There is a table overflowing with leaflets from all these groups about their work and how to contact them. There is also information from the European Forum of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Christian Groups(www.euroforumlgbtchristians.eu.) and the Global Network of Rainbow Catholics (www.rainbowcatholics.org).
These Masses and socials are a helpful way for LGBT people, family, friends and parishioners to meet in a supportive, friendly environment for friendship and meet people from these lively groups offering many events and ongoing activities, including prayer-groups, occasional retreat-days, reflection/discussion evenings.
News and Notes
Welcome. God loves you.
How LGBTQ Catholics can celebrate this Easter season
I believe that Jesus, in his resurrection, has revealed ways for all LGBTQ Catholics (including myself) to celebrate with our church.
The 2024 Outreach LGBTQ Catholic ministry conference will be held at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., from August 2-4. Learn more.
Roundtable: What the Vatican said about gender theory in ‘Dignitas Infinita’
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Cardinal Fernández explains the ‘novelty’ of new Vatican doc on dignity
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As a transgender Catholic, I don’t see gender diversity as a threat to our faith
My personal faith journey has shown me that LGBTQ identities are a gift from God, one that helps the entire community grow in openness and love.
Vatican condemnation of “gender theory” a moment of whiplash for LGBTQ Catholics
The document, which has been in the works for the past five years, cites other popes and Vatican documents, but also tries to synthesize the thoughts of Pope Francis.
Bishop Thomas Gumbleton remembered as a supportive friend to LGBTQ Catholics
What made Bishop Gumbleton fairly unique among Catholic leaders was his public willingness to support gay Catholics and his moral courage to confront homophobia in the church.
The Outreach Guide to the Bible and Homosexuality
From Pope Francis’ meeting with Portuguese Jesuits, 5 August 2023
**Hello, Holy Father, my name is Vasco, I study philosophy. I am the youngest in the province, and that is why I was asked to speak first! Faced with the challenges of our generation, looking at our sexualized, consumerist society, according to your experience as a Jesuit, do you think our formation is structured to face these challenges?
Pope Francis: I am not afraid of sexualized society. No, I am afraid of how we relate to it. I am afraid of worldly criteria. I prefer to use the term “worldly”, rather than “sexualized …”
**Holy Father, I am João. I work in the university center in Coimbra. I want to ask you a difficult question. In your speech at last Thursday’s welcoming ceremony here in Lisbon, you said that we are all called as we are, and that there is room for everyone in the Church. I do pastoral work every day with young university students, very committed to the Church, to the Jesuit Spirituality Center, and who identify as homosexuals. They feel that they are an active part of the Church, but they often do not see in doctrine their way of living affectivity, and they do not see the call to chastity as a personal call to celibacy, but rather as an imposition. Since they are virtuous in other areas of their lives, and know the doctrine, can we say that they are all in error, because they do not feel, in conscience, that their relationships are sinful? And how can we act pastorally so that these people feel, in their way of life, called by God to a healthy affective life that produces fruit? Should we recognize that their relationships can open up and give seeds of true Christian love, such as the good they can accomplish, the response they can give to the Lord? Pope Francis : “I believe there is no discussion about the call being addressed to everyone. Jesus is very clear about this: everyone. The invited guests did not want to come to the banquet. So he sent out to the streets to call in everyone, everyone, everyone. So that it remains clear, Jesus says “healthy and sick,” “righteous and sinners,” everyone, everyone, everyone. In other words, the door is open to everyone, everyone has their own space in the Church. How will each person live it out? We help people live so that they can occupy that place with maturity, and this applies to all kinds of people.
Recognition LGBTIQ+ Church
12/2/2023 LGBT+CWNews&NotesFebruary2023
8/1/2023
New Ways Ministry Finding LGBTQ+ Epiphanies in the Heart of a Holy Child
Guest Contributor
Today’s post is by guest contributor Sr. Rebecca White. Rebecca is an Ursuline Sister who works in her community’s archives. She has also been a nurse and an instructor of Women’s Studies at Brescia University, Kentucky. Rebecca identifies as lesbian and participates in New Ways Ministry retreats for LGBTQ+ sisters and conferences for them and their Leadership Teams, Vocation Directors, and Formation Personnel.
Today’s liturgical readings for the Epiphany of the Lord can be found here.
We celebrate the Epiphany of the Lord today, followed immediately by the Baptism of the Lord. On this day, we celebrate the epiphany of Jesus to the Gentiles; tomorrow, the epiphany of Jesus to himself, when he is told how God loves and delights in him.
The word “epiphany” comes from the Greek word “epiphano” meaning “give light, shine on,” or “be manifested, appear.” When I think about the Magi, the “Three Kings” (nowhere in the New Testament does it say three, though only three gifts are mentioned), or the wise people who came from afar to meet Jesus, I am reminded of us, the LGBTQ+ and ally community. We are often treated as Gentiles, outsiders. Just as the Jewish people of long ago did not deem Gentiles worthy of the long-awaited one, who would be Savior of their people only, so often, we are not recognized in our own day as worthy of having human rights or even living. That puts us there with Jesus, whose light shines on all.
Isaiah tells us that “your light has come, the glory of [God] shines upon you” (Is 60:1). In Matthew’s gospel, a new star leads to this One who is to be King of the Jews (or, as Catholics would have it, King of the Universe, celebrated this year on November 26, 2023). LGBTQ+ people and allies search and search. Is this the One who is to appear to us, the One to shine light into our closets, the One who comes to free of from the prison bars that those closets can become, the One to loose our bonds of condemning ourselves or being condemned by others?
The Magi came to look upon the baby Jesus. What if we look into the eyes and heart of this holy child and the adult he later became? When I look into the eyes, I see a glimmer of light, but when I look into the heart—ah!—a blazing light that blinds me to what I usually see. That bright fire allows me to see deeper truths, truths about who I am to God, truths about who I am called to be in this world.
By means of this light, what or whom do we see? Do we see a God of love and ourselves as part of that same loving light? Jesus’ baptism can open us to that blazing fire that shines in and through our hearts and lives.
As Jesus comes up from the water after being baptized by his cousin John, he hears the voice of God say, “This is my beloved with whom I am well pleased” (Mt. 3:17). I feel confident in saying that his mother had explained to him as best she could who he was, but to hear this other voice affirming what Mary had told him helped Jesus to see even more deeply into who he was and who he was to become. That experience must have been a whole new epiphany for Jesus, a bright light shining into his heart. He must have seen more clearly than ever before.
Just as Jesus gradually came to know the truth of himself, so we LGBTQ+ and allies come to see more fully who we are and whose we are. We learn more as our lives unfold. After the baptism experience, Jesus withdraws into the desert for forty days. In the same way, we too must deal with our own desert times. May we hold firm to our faith in God and in our own truth!
—Sr. Rebecca White, OSU, January 8, 2022
26/1/2022
Is the Church beginning to decisively shift its approach on LGBTQ matters? Pope Francis has not formally “changed” any official teaching but he’s opened the way to a more inclusive and …
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6/10/2021
- Priceless Podcast
James Alison talks about his journey to becoming a priest and what is happening within the church. - Sideways God
The Pentecost reflections. - On pastoral care of the LGBTQ+ community
- Interview to More Christ
James Alison revisits the main themes of his writings in an extensive and lucid interview
8/8/2021
1/8/2021
Living in Love and Faith
Christian teaching and learning about identity, sexuality,
relationships and marriage
30/6/2021
The survey should only take around 10-15 minutes to complete and can be completed through the below link:
https://cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_ext4fyb7tA4Ep9Q
The purpose of this study is to map out personal opinions and beliefs about the presence of LGBT+ individuals within Christian churches across a range of denominations.
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10/6/2021
The Beatitudes of Dignity
Blessed are you gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex, straight,
sister, brother, kin. You are a unique and glorious reflection of God’s
astounding creativity and love.
Blessed are you when you dare to bring the truth of who you are into
loving relationship with others. You heal and strengthen the body of
Christ.
Blessed are you who challenge stereotypes and caricatures. You bring
light to the world.
Blessed are you who speak out against religious hypocrisy. You help
to birth justice and peace.
Blessed are you when you work for full equality and inclusion, you
honour the sacredness of all people.
Blessed are you when you create new kinds of families, families
formed by love, often unequal under the law. You live the truth that
all God’s people are one family.
Blessed are you who seek to worship in spirit and in truth whose
prayer arises from humble hearts. The spirit of holiness will inspire
and guide you.
Blessed are you who offer comfort to the dying, healing to the sick,
food to the hungry, housing to the homeless, presence to the lonely,
hope to the hopeless. You are the gospel, the good news our aching
world so desperately needs to know.
Blessed are you reviled and persecuted, yet persistent in faith, hope
and love. Rejoice and be proud for in you God’s love is revealed.
A Blessing for Pride Month from Ruby Almeida (for Quest and Rainbow Catholics India) and Christopher Vella for Drachma LGBTI Malta. Ruby and Christopher are Co-Chairs of Global Network of Rainbow Catholics.
18/2/2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy0FhNct0W4
Rev. James Martin S.J., America Magazine Title: “Building a Bridge: Reaching out to LGBTQ Catholics”
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19/1/2021
James Alison (b. 1959) is a Catholic theologian, priest and author. He has studied, lived and worked in Mexico, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Spain and the United States as well as his native England.
22/10/2020
https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/40729
Pope Francis has reiterated his support for civil union laws for same-sex couples, in part of a new documentary on his papacy by director Evgeny Afineevsky. The film ‘Francesco’ interweaves voices and stories from past and present. It includes exclusive interviews with Pope Francis, Pop…
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22/10/2020
in Rome in October 2015 and create the Global Network of Rainbow Catholics. So now, after five
years of hopeful dreams and hard work, we invite you to join us for our 5th Anniversary celebration
on October 4th at 2 p.m. London time (GMT+1).
rejoice during a 90-minute virtual reunion. This is the chance to gather and celebrate our five-year
history, with meditation, musical performances, celebrated speakers, group discussions and a
prayerful liturgy. Ourspecial guests are James Alison, Mary E Hunt and Thomas Ninan who will deliver
some significant reflections.
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or whether you will be able to connect live via our Facebook and Youtube channels. Due to technical
and logistical limitations, only 100 individuals can join the zoom call. Preference will be given to GNRC
Member Groups to connect first, but friends and allies are more than welcome to register and we
hope we can accommodate as many requests as possible.
you wish to anonymise yourself during the gathering. You may choose a name to put on your profile
window once you access the zoom call.
We would be glad if you can join this celebration. The activity is free and all are welcome to join.
However, if you would like to make a contribution in honour of GNRC’s Fifth Anniversary, we welcome
and appreciate that. Please make your gift online at paypal.me/GNRCfinance
May God bless us all and see you on October 4th!!!
THE GNRC BOARD
Global Network of Rainbow Catholics 2020
8/6/2020
LGBT+ Catholics Westminster reach out beyond lockdown
London’s LGBT+ Catholics, parents, families and friends have reached out globally through Farm Street Jesuit Church’s Sunday evening live-streamed Mass for Trinity Sunday, 7 June 2020. Farm Street Church’s live-stream Masses attract thousands of global hits.
Usually gathering on the 2nd Sunday of each month at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm Street, but now prevented by lock-down, LGBT+ Catholics provided readers and music for the 6pm Sunday evening Mass. As usual, a specific welcome was offered to the LGBT+ Catholic community by the celebrant of the Mass. Their participation was also recognised by the Church’s Parish Priest, Fr. Dominic Robinson SJ as he thanked them for contributing to the Mass through pre-recorded readings, prayers, and music which included the ancient St Patrick’s Breastplate hymn, I bind unto myself today the strong name of the Trinity.
Prayers were offered for an end to racism and violence throughout the world, and especially for peace and reconciliation in the United States. The Mass also remembered refugees and asylum seekers, those who have lost jobs and are financially vulnerable due to lock-down measures, as well as increasing numbers of homeless on London’s streets. Farm Street Church is one of a number of churches and faith-groups providing food and support in London’s Trafalgar Square to the homeless. On Sunday, 7 June, they fed around 190 people.
An LGBT+ Catholics Westminster spokesperson said: “This live-stream Mass gives us an opportunity to show globally how a Catholic parish is able to welcome and integrate LGBT+ Catholics within its worship and ministry. We hope it will encourage other parishes throughout the world to value the gifts that LGBT+ Catholics are able to bring to the Church.”
https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/39759
10/4/2020 Stations of the Cross led by LGBT Catholics Westminster
Stations 2020 single slides
COVID 19 related articles.
Trans items
Tablet 6th April One more way to be human
Tablet 15 June 2019 Gender theory and gender reality
SCE Review of Anderson When Harry met Sally and Yarhouse Understanding Gender Dysphoria
Interesting articles / webpages
9th March 2020
Father James Martin, the well-known Jesuit author and advocate for LGBTQ Catholics, has created a YouTube video entitled the Five Most Common Questions About LGBT Catholic Ministry in which he explores the most frequent questions about LGBT Catholics he receives at his lectures, in his ministry, and in personal conversations:. Are you challenging church teaching on homosexuality?
www.newwaysministry.org
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20th Oct 2019
This weeks begins a series of reflections from Richard Rohr on Gender and Sexuality. Please find links below
https://cac.org/wide-eyed-seeing-2019-10-20/
20th October 2019
Video interviews> Christian Parents with homosexual children in Italy share their experienceChristian parents with homosexual children in Italy share their experience and talk about what happened in the family when their children came out.
Turn English subtitles on in the video. What happens in a Christian family when a child comes out as homosexual? We asked some catholic parents to talk about it because “the truth will set you free”.
This video was made by the association: La Tenda di Gionata, founded by the Gionata Project (www.gionata.org) at the request of don David Esposito, a deceased priest who in his will expressed the desire for a Christian organisation that worked concretely for the welcoming, the formation and information of LGBT Christians, their families and pastoral workers, so that Christian communities can be “increasingly welcoming shrines of support for LGBT people and for every person affected by discrimination“.
For info click on https://youtu.be/vU62suliiA0
17th Oct 2019
I’m gay, married, and not leaving my church
Introduction:
These links take you to a site called All Inclusive Ministries. Their mission statement gives you a good picture of what you might find on their site. There are items written from personal experience and material to help you deepen your faith, make decisions and live life to the full.
Mission
AIM invites all baptized Catholics in the diversity of their sexual orientation and gender identity to full participation in the life, worship, and mission of the Church.
Our values center on our Catholic faith and include:
- Respect
- Compassion
- Sensitivity
- Hospitality
- Faith
- Openness
- Diversity
https://www.allinclusiveministries.org/making-good-decisions/
https://www.allinclusiveministries.org/how-to-pray/
From the Independent Catholic news July 8th 2019
LGBT+ Catholics at Pride in London
The Christian presence at the Pride in London Parade on Saturday began and ended with prayers. An ecumenical prayer breakfast was held at St Anne’s Anglican Church in Soho. Another ecumenical service took place nearby at St Giles-in-the-Fields in the evening.
Around 25 people from LGBT+ Catholics Westminster joined the Parade while others staffed an information stall in Soho Square throughout the day – the only faith-based presence in the Community Market Place. A spokesman said: “In this we are echoing Pope Francis’ call to go out to the peripheries of Church and society.” More than 3,000 people of all faiths and none, visited the stall to chat and collect information cards and leaflets.
LGBT+ Catholics Westminster Pastoral Council members had attended the third Pre-Pride Reception, on Tuesday, 2 July, hosted by the Lord Mayor of Westminster, Cllr Ruth Bush who is a Methodist. During the Reception, Cllr Bush spoke about recent advances made in Westminster City Council including the appointment of Cllr Ian Adams as Lead Councillor on LGBT+ concerns, including related hate-crime incidence.
During the evening ecumenical service at St Giles-in-the-Fields, participants reflected on the fact it is now 50 years since the Stonewall riots. While much has been achieved, they acknowledged that more still needs to be done.
LGBT+ Catholics Westminster with friends and family next gather at Farm Street Jesuit Church, 114 Mount Street, Mayfair, London W1K 3AH for the 5.30pm Mass, on Sunday 14 July 2019, followed by refreshments in the Parish Hall.
For full article published in the Tablet on 22/6/2019 click on Nicolete Burbach – the joy of fulfillment
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/apr/27/sex-education-around-the-world
The 3rd LGBT+ Catholics Westminster Pilgrimage to Rome ended, Sunday, 10 March 2019.
On Ash Wednesday, 6 March 2019, the 16 pilgrims, including parents and family members alongside LGBT Catholics with Pilgrimage Chaplain, Fr. David Stewart SJ, had privileged seats at the morning Papal Audience in St. Peter’s Square. At the end of the General Audience the group was invited to meet Pope Francis – see attached photograph.
The Pilgrimage Leader, Martin Pendergast, a member of the LGBT+ Catholics Westminster Pastoral Council, introduced the group to the smiling Pope Francis, explaining that they formed part of the LGBT+ pastoral ministry outreach of Westminster Diocese. Each pilgrim received a gift of a rosary from Pope Francis who shook hands with the group’s members.
Later, on Ash Wednesday afternoon, the group was able to take part in Pope Francis’ Mass & Imposition of Ashes in the Church of Santa Sabina. In the evening the Group was warmly welcomed at an Ecumenical Liturgy of the Word & Blessing of Ashes with English-speaking Anglicans, Catholics and Methodists, in the Church of St.Ignatius.
The programme included a conversation with Rome-based journalists, Christopher Lamb (The Tablet) and Robert Mickens (La Croix International) giving their perspectives on Pope Francis’ Church reform strategy, not least following the recent Vatican Sexual Abuse Summit. They were also addressed by the American moral theologian, Professor James Keenan SJ, on the Pope’s response to the 2014/2015 Synods on Marriage & Family. He focused on Pope Francis’ key-principles of “accompaniment” and “moral discernment” as vital considerations in addressing LGBT concerns.
The group celebrated Mass in the room where St.Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, died; and also in the Titular Church of Cardinal Vincent Nichols – The Most Holy Redeemer & St. Alphonsus.
Morning Prayer remembering victims of homophobia and transphobia was celebrated in the St. Bartholomew-on-the-Tiber Church, which commemorates martyrs of our own times and is run by the San Egidio Community.
FURTHER INFORMATION: Martin Pendergast – 020 8986 0807
lgbtcatholicswestminster@gmail.com
Below a link to show the presentation of Fr. Dominic Robinson and Nick O’Shea at the World Meeting of Families in Dublin. (Fr Dominic is now the Parish Priest for Farm Street.)
This presentation describes how LGBT+ Westminster community were welcomed to Farm Street parish, and have since contributed to the liturgical, spiritual and pastoral life of the Church. Members of the congregation and the Parish Priest will reflect on the practical steps that made this journey possible and recount their story as Catholics. The positive impact this has had on both communities is considered, as is the learning for how other parishes may also want to extend a welcome to members of the Catholic family who are LGBT+.
https://www.worldmeeting2018.ie/en/Programme/Congress/Wednesday-Programme/Evening-Presentation-3-(1)
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Below is the final paragraph of #150 in the English text released today. It is of particular interest to our ministry to LGBTQ+ sisters and brothers:
“Many Christian communities already offer journeys of accompaniment in faith for homosexual persons: the Synod recommends that such initiatives be supported. In these journeys, people are helped to read their own history; to adhere with freedom and responsibility to their baptismal calling; to recognize the desire to belong and contribute to the life of the community; to discern the best ways of realizing this. Thus, all young people, without exception, are helped to integrate the sexual dimension of their personality more and more fully, as they grow in the quality of their relationships and move towards the gift of self.”
ENTIRE ENGLISH DOCUMENT BY CLICKING HERE
I hope the paragraph above and the words highlighted help you engage in respectful conversation in order to create a more welcoming Church – parish, (arch)diocese, school – for our LGBTQ+ sisters and brothers.
“Let us simply stop and start listening to our own hearts. Then we will touch a lot of pain. We will possibly touch a lot of anger. We will possibly touch a lot of loneliness and anguish. Then we will hear something deeper. We will hear the voice of Jesus, we will hear the voice of God. We will discover that the heart of Christ, in some mysterious way, is hidden in my heart and there, we will hear, “I love you. You are precious to my eyes and I love you.”
Jean Vanier (Images of Love, Words of Hope)
Spiritual Insights for LGBT Catholics
Watch the video on YouTube
We welcome you here at Our Lady Immaculate and St Andrew parish
What is the official church teaching on homosexuality?
Click on the link for a response from Fr James Martin Responding to a commonly asked question
Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditation
From the Center for Action and Contemplation
For a series of meditations on Gender and Sexuality click below which will take you to a weekly summary and click on Sunday April 15th to start the series.
https://cac.org/gender-and-sexuality-week-1-summary-2018-04-21/