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“Evangelism always follows from relationships”: Daniel Mattson on same-sex attraction and witnessing to the Faith

July 5, 2018 Leslie Fain 9

The author of Why I Don’t Call Myself Gay says evangelizing the LGBT community starts the same way all evangelization starts: with building relationships. […]

The Dispatch

“Made for Love”: Father Mike Schmitz on God’s plan for authentic love

January 10, 2018 Nicholas LaBanca 7

The well-known speaker and chaplain discusses new book on same-sex attraction and Church teaching. […]

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Bishop Robert Morlino on controversy: “…only what is true can ultimately be pastoral.”

December 11, 2017 Jim Graves 17

The Bishop of Madison, Wisconsin, who has been under fire from various homosexual activist groups and media outlets, stresses that anyone with “same-sex attraction is a […]

Analysis

Fr. James Martin’s weak and wobbly bridge

July 13, 2017 Janet E. Smith 56

The need for better “rapport” between the Catholic Church and those who experience same-sex attraction, their friends and family, and the public at large is undeniable. Fr. James Martin, S.J. in his book Building A […]

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Understanding the subtext of LGBTQ “welcome”

June 19, 2017 Jim Russell 15

There is a head-scratching pretense at work currently in some corners of Catholic and secular media—and even some media focal points such as the . It’s apparently newsworthy that the Catholic Church has finally, at […]

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