An organization consisting of more than 500 British priests and deacons wrote an open letter condemning the Vatican's decision to bless same-sex couples.
Jesuit Father James Martin wrote in an essay that the Vatican's approval of blessings for same-sex couples is a "major step forward for LGBTQ Catholics."
Pope Francis criticized laws that criminalize homosexuality as “unjust,” saying God loves all his children just as they are and called on Catholic bishops who support the laws to welcome LGBTQ people into the church.
An official statement stating its parochial school students will have to conform to the gender with which they’re born or leave school has put Omaha’s Roman Catholic archdiocese squarely in the middle of a raging national debate over gender, identity and faith.