Publication: New Ways Ministry
Algiers Cardinal: Blessing Same-Gender Couples ‘Changes Everything’
Earlier this year, a French publisher issued a book entitled Homos et cathos: L’Eglise à l’épreuve du réel (Gays and Catholics: The Church Confronts Reality), edited by Claire Bévierre and ...
LGBTQ+ Catholics Prepare for Their Jubilee Pilgrimage
2025 is a Jubilee Year, a major Catholic event held every 25 years that brings people from all over the world to Rome to pray, pass through the holy doors ...
Bishop Stowe Says Pope Francis Inspired Him to Listen to LGBTQ+ Catholics
Bishop John Stowe, OFM Conv. revealed that Pope Francis was his inspiration to listen more closely to LGBTQ+ Catholics. In a reflection published on the Outreach website, the bishop of ...
Bishop Iffert Defends Celebration of Mass with LGBTQ+ Activist Group
When Bishop John Iffert of Covington, Kentucky, decided to celebrate Mass with Catholics Embracing All God’s Children (CEAGC), a support group for LGBTQ+ families, he faced pushback from other faithful ...
Bishop Stowe Accepts Award From Denounced LGBTQ+ Activist Group
NOTE: New Ways Ministry has previously been denounced by both the U.S. bishops’ conference and the Vatican’s doctrinal office for causing confusion on sexual morality among the Catholic faithful. Bishop ...
Pope Francis Takes Time To Meet with Apostate LGBTQ+ Group
Pope Francis met today with a diverse group of transgender, intersex, and ally Catholics, including a medical doctor who provides gender transition care. The group urged Pope Francis to move ...
Francis Meets With Ugandan LGBTQ+ Activist
Pope Francis met with an LGBTQ+ activist from Uganda, and during their conversation he once again condemned discrimination against LGBTQ+ people. The activist, Clare Byarugaba, posted on X (formerly Twitter) ...
Key Synod Official Endorses Queer Blessings
A top cardinal who has a central role in the Synod has voiced his support for Fiducia Supplicans, the Vatican declaration allowing blessings for same-gender couples. Today’s post features that ...
Now Francis Voices Approval of “Legal Recognition” of Same-Sex “Unions”
Pope Francis has reaffirmed his support for same-gender civil unions, writing that “it is right” that such couples “who live the gift of love can have legal coverage like everyone ...
Archbishop Hebda’s Hand-Pick Synod Delegate To Lead New Ways Ministry Webinar
Cynthia Bailey Manns, adult learning director at the renegade parish St. Joan of Arc in Minneapolis, was Archbishop Bernard Hebda's hand-picked lay delegate to the Synod on Synodality this past ...
German and Flemish Bishops Warmly Welcome Vatican’s Gay Blessings
For several weeks now, Bondings 2.0 has covered the reception of Fiducia Supplicans, the Vatican’s declaration on blessings that allowed priests to bless same-gender couples and others in “irregular” situations. The question ...