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“The real sin was not my love”: the testimony of a gay catholic heard by the Synod

Testimony of a gay Catholic from Portugal, attached to the work of Study Group no. 9 of the Synod on synodality, published on Synod.va (Holy See) in 2026. Freely translated by the volunteers of the Gionata Project. What aspects of your personal experience do you think are most important to highlight with respect to the topic we are talking about, in this case homosexuality? Growing in love...

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Titian's choice. The day I stopped hiding as a gay Christian

Testimony of Titian taken from the book edited by Elisa Belotti*, Mi fido di te. Listening to LGBT+ Christian people and their parents, published by La tent di Gionata, March 2026, pp.1-2 «How could I make him grow up free if I was the first to hide?» I grew up in a Catholic reality with well-defined contours: the Neocatechumenal path. Very well known, also...

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My journey into the church as a queer Catholic

Article by Manuela Pfann*, published in Kirche im SWR – Evangelische und Katholische Rundfunkarbeit beim SWR (Germany) on 7 December 2025. Freely translated by the volunteers of the Gionata Project I am Manuela Pfann* and today I am hanging out with Heiko Hauger who studied theology and was one step away from ordination as a Catholic priest. Then he fell in love with a man and...

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My journey to being gay and Catholic

Testimonianza di Gio Benitez* (Stati Uniti) pubblicata sulla sua pagina Instagram il 10 novembre 2025. Liberamente tradotta dai volontari del Progetto Gionata Sei mesi fa, la morte di un Papa umile mi ha inaspettatamente rimesso in viaggio, un viaggio che, a ben vedere, stavo preparando da tutta la vita. Ho visto padre James Martin, S.J., parlare a Good Morning America...

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The paradox of the cross for a Christian LGBT+

Text by ISH RUIZ*, published in New Ways Ministry (United States) on September 14, 2025. Freely translated by the volunteers of the Gionata project. I grew up in Puerto Rico, Queer and Catholic, and it was not easy. When I realized that I felt attraction for other guys, a deep crisis has opened inside me. Everything I had learned in the church ...