Dear friends: I'm sharing this letter received today, the kind of message I receive almost daily, not because it disturbs me, but to illustrate the kind of homophobia that is rampant in our church today, encouraged, consciously and unconsciously, by bishops, priests... 
...and other Catholics.
Often in the course of ministering to #LGBTQ Catholics, I meet well-meaning Catholics who express skepticism when I tell them about the hatred that LGBTQ people face in various dioceses, parishes, schools or Catholic settings. The challenge is to...
Often in the course of ministering to #LGBTQ Catholics, I meet well-meaning Catholics who express skepticism when I tell them about the hatred that LGBTQ people face in various dioceses, parishes, schools or Catholic settings. The challenge is to...
...help well-meaning people see that simply because they do not see homophobia present in their own dioceses or parishes, doesn't mean it's not present elsewhere. It's there, both in the US and, often far worse, in many places overseas.
Until the church addresses this hatred...
Until the church addresses this hatred...
...head on, it will continue. The Catholic Church must acknowledge not only homophobia among individual Catholics (like this unfortunate soul "in the trenches") but systemic homophobia, which pervades the church itself. The first step is admitting that it exists...
...naming it and finally bringing it out in the open.
Before Jesus could cure the man with the "Legion" of demons, which had tormented the man and kept him bound and unfree, the demon needed to be named (Mk 5:9).
And this demon is called hate.
Before Jesus could cure the man with the "Legion" of demons, which had tormented the man and kept him bound and unfree, the demon needed to be named (Mk 5:9).
And this demon is called hate.
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