homosexuality

Courage began in 1980 in New York City under Cardinal Terence Cooke, who saw a need to support Catholics experiencing same-sex attractions and who sought to live chastely in accordance with church teaching on homosexuality.

The president of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union said he believes the current church teaching on homosexuality is wrong, not based in science.

The statement was a response to a question or “dubium” that came from priests and lay faithful “who require clarification and guidance concerning a controversial issue,” said an official commentary accompanying the statement.

A 50-member delegation of lawyers, politicians and human rights advocates met with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, to discuss the decriminalization of homosexuality.

A new book accused the Vatican of hypocrisy, claiming that the majority of prelates working within its walls live active homosexual lifestyles.

Peter Isely, a survivor and founding member of the survivor’s group SNAP states the link between homosexuality and pedophilia is immoral, unconscionable and has to stop.

No one is excluded from the love of God or from being welcomed into the Catholic Church, but God’s love and the church’s welcome also come with a call to conversion, said the English-language groups at the Synod of Bishops.

An abuse survivor, who had been disparaged for being a homosexual, said that Pope Francis told him that God made him that way and loved him for who he was.