One of the earliest forms of ministry for lesbian and gay Catholics was the development of self – ministry ( Metropolitan Community Church) and support groups (Dignity USA and Quest UK for Catholics, Integrity for Anglicans). Quest this year celebrates…
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“The revolution of family” and the Catholic Response
The continuing spread of marriage equality (in Delaware yesterday, possibly continuing in Minnesota today and Illinois later this month) raised several challenges for the Catholic Church. Several leading churchmen have already spoken of support for civil unions, but the church…
Soho Masses Community – Expanding LGBT Ministry
At a one day workshop, “After Warwick Street: Expanding LGBT Ministry”, 21 people associated with the Soho Masses Community came up with firm, personal commitments to extend and deepen their existing commitments to ministry to lesbian and gay Catholics. Yesterday,…
Cardinal Wuerl: Married Gay Catholics “Not a Great Problem”
It’s been obvious for a long time that as equal marriage becomes increasingly inevitable, as ordinary Catholics show their direct support for all Catholic relationships and families without discrimination on sexual or gender grounds, the bishops will be forced to…
DignityUSA Asks to Meet With Cardinal Dolan
Dignity USA has responded to Cardinal Dolan’s statement on Easter Sunday that the Church needs to be more “more open” to gays and lesbians, but that he doesn’t know how to do that, with a request for a meeting. For…
Call for Help: NZ Journalist, Seeks Gay Catholic Kiwis.
I found this in my inbox this morning: I am a journalist based in Wellington, NZ, writing a feature story about Catholicism in this country and how it is interacting with various changes in society. As part of that, I…
Promote LGBT Ministry: Write to Rome, Write the Bishops”!
As part of my response to the sudden “closure” of the Soho Masses, I’ve been writing extensively about the need to do more than simply move our existing congregation from Warwick Street to Farm Street. There is a dire need…
The Tablet: Nichols to meet Soho Mass-goers
7 January 2013 The Archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nichols, has offered to meet with gay Catholics who attend the so-called Soho Masses that he said are “contentious” and will end in Lent. The archbishop made the offer in a letter…
Epiphany: Soho Masses Community Celebrate the Feast of Coming Out
Yesterday, January 6th, the Church celebrated the great Feast of the Epiphany – the feast where Jesus is shown to the world, revealed. Where he comes out. At the Church of the Assumption, Warwick Street, the Soho Masses community celebrated…
Archbishop Nichols’ Letter to the Soho Masses Congregation
As the press and internet have been abuzz with grossly misleading reports that Archbishop Nichols has “ended” the Soho Masses which have been celebrated for the last six years for LGBT Catholics, their families and friends at the Church of…
