for not only does Francis benefit from learning more about LGBTQ Catholics, but the whole church benefits from the posture of welcome and listening that he demonstrates. Meeting the pope was a ...

Pope Francis has been told by a Filipino Catholic university student to "stop using offensive language" against LGBTQ people. Slurs cause "immense pain", Jack Lorenz Acebedo Rivero said during an ...

Fred Szczepanski — affectionately known as “Mr. Fred” to fellow parishioners — served as the music director at Traverse ...

For Francis, the synodal process was always more important than any decisions the synod made. Synodality requires a spiritual ...

also did not take a stand on inclusion of the LGBTQ community, despite discussion that it might call on the Church to be more welcoming. Pope Francis called the month-long summit, known as a Synod ...

The outcome calmed the fears of church conservatives that Pope Francis’s “Synod on Synodality” would serve as a smokescreen for radical change while leaving liberals, who had seen it as ...

The U.S. Department of State is participating in international summits targeting LGBTQ rights are slated to start as soon as ...

LGBTQ activists and legal experts in Italy ... More:'A child is a gift': Pope Francis calls for a ban on surrogacy, calls it 'deplorable' Months later, in Padua, a prosecutor moved to throw ...

Francis has sought to open the ... including women's leadership and welcoming LGBTQ Catholics. The study groups are to report to the pope next June and may recommend wider reforms.

“The dialogue around LGBTQ issues was much easier this year.” Pope Francis had been expected to issue his own document responding to the synod text, but he told the assembly he was no longer ...

The gathering, which included cardinals, bishops and lay people from more than 110 countries, also did not take a stand on ...