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LGBT+ Catholics are growing attention in the Italian Church. The challenge? Welcome everyone

Article by Luciano Moia published in AVVENIRE, newspaper of the Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI) on 13 February 2026, page 19 About thirty (Italian) dioceses actively involved, just as many where episodic initiatives have been registered, 58 associative realities (of LGBT+ Christians and their parents) at a national or local level. And then training courses, conferences, theological insights that were unthinkable until...

“In Jerusalem you will be consoled.” Meditations towards Easter by Luigi Testa

There are books that are read and books that are crossed. "In Jerusalem you will be consoled. Meditations towards Easter" by Luigi Testa is one of these: forty pages that not only ask for attention, but for heart. Published and distributed free of charge by La Tenda di Gionata, with an introduction by Filippo Sorcinelli, the afterword by the moral theologian Martin M. Lintner OSM and the...

In the Church of England 252 votes in favor of exclusion?

Reflections by Alessandro Previti There is a seductive idea that has been around for years: remove the Pope, put in a horizontal structure, let everyone vote, distribute power... and here is the free, democratic and inclusive Church. A permanent laboratory where freedom grows through institutional mechanics. A beautiful image, tidy and reassuring. And then I've always liked fantasy. But let's talk about facts....

Church of England stops discussion on marriage blessing for LGBTQ+ couples

Article published on katholisch.de (Germany) on 13 February 2026. Freely translated and edited by Gionata volunteers The question of how queer couples can be blessed in the Church of England continues to deeply divide the English Anglican Church. And now, at least for the moment, the comparison stops. The General Synod of the Church of England, an assembly made up of bishops, members of...

The complex relationship of Indian queer Christians with their churches

Article by Joshua Muyiwa published on the queerbeat.org website (India) on 21 July 2023. Freely translated and adapted by the volunteers of the Gionata project. Moved away from anti-homosexual stigma, some queer Indian Christians are slowly returning to the fold – aided by some churches' efforts to create safe spaces for them. "I grew up in an over-the-top Christian family," says Romal Laisram, journalist and editor...