Always our children. The path of Catholic parents with homosexual children
"Always our children. The path of Catholic parents with homosexual children”It is the new ebook downloadable for free from the website of the Gionata project. A small collection of testimonies and documents intended for Catholic families who have to do with the theme of homosexuality, to which the recent Synod on the family recommended that "You reserve a specific attention"(Synod report, n.76), and also to their shepherds.
Andrea Vincenti, curator of the ebook, writes that "Reading the many stories published on the website of the Gionata project, I noticed how some parents who learn about the homosexuality of their children, in some way, believe they are responsible for it, or believe that it is only a temporary phase of the development of the adolescent . Faced with such news it is normal to ask questions"But"What can faith be told in this situation? A Catholic family that has a homosexual person inside how to behave?".
The 10 testimonies of Catholic parents with LGBT children enclosed in this small collection, the short bibliography attached and the text of the pastoral letter Always our children ("Always Our Children" of 1997), written by the Catholic Bishops of the United States to parents with Glbt children, want to offer positive stresses to some of these questions.
He writes in the introduction Don Federico Emaldi, priest of the diocese of Ravenna-Cervia and professor of moral theology, which “Reading these stories bare a series of questions that deeply touch feelings, when not even some elements of the identity of people, both parents and children: how do you "change" my relationship with God? What role can my faith play and therefore my "being" within the Christian community? " but “Perhaps the truest request, which for the believer turns into prayer, is not so much that the Church changes the way of thinking, as well as the members of the Church change their ways of acting, to be increasingly a personal, tangible sign, Reachable of love without borders of Jesus, offered for each of us!".
"Always our children. The path of Catholic parents with homosexual children"It is a small 49 -page ebook that the Gionata project, with the collaboration of the groups of homosexual Christians and the AGDO (National Association formed by parents, relatives and friends of homosexual men and women), wants to give how many on these themes they want Listen to build in society and in churches bridges, and not walls. To all of you happy reading.
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Download and read for free This ebook (PDF file)
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Content index
Preface by Andrea Vincenti, curator
Introduction by Don Federico Emaldi, priest of the diocese of Ravenna-Cervia and professor of moral theology
Parents' prayer
Our son is gay. The story of any family
The fears and hopes of a Catholic mother of a gay boy
Our son is gay. Our relatives: "We accept it, though ..."
A mother, the discovery of the homosexuality of her son and Agedo
A Catholic mother tells: 'Me and my daughters, twins and lesbians'
My son and his intense life between choir in the parish and drag shows
Me, mother of a gay boy, and the meeting with a group of homosexual believers
When a child is gay. A mother guardian of his secret
Family conversations. Me, mine and homophobia
I didn't know what it means to be a gay guy's mother
In the appendix:
Brief bibliography and filmography for parents with LGBT children and more
Document: always our children (Always Our Children)
The parents of the AGDO
Groups of homosexual Christians in Italy
Faith and homosexuality: the Gionata project
