Category: Consecrated lives

Text by Father James Martin*, published on the America Magazine website (United States) on 24 February 2026. Freely translated by the volunteers of the Gionata Project. I have always admired Father Bryan Massingale, a Catholic theologian at Fordham University. A few years ago, during the Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice, he gave one of the best lectures I have ever heard, on any topic. He was talking about racism...

LEAH RAIDT*text, published in Querucky (United States) on 11 August 2025. Freely translated by the volunteers of the Gionata Sister Luisa Derouen project is a 64 -year religious. For 26 years, he has accompanied the trans supporter and supporter at national level, as a spiritual guide. In his writings and teachings he expressed simple and profound truths, such as the fact that the ...

Text by Father Paul F. Morrissey Osa*, published on Outreach (United States) on August 4, 2025. Freely translated by the volunteers of the Gionata project. For thirty years, every spring, my four brothers and weekends have been dedicating to being together. When we were more young, we made descents in the canoe on the Delaware river, starting on small islands full of fleas. In recent years, ...

Ariell Watson Simon* article published on the website of the LGBT Cattolica New Ways Ministry (Stateuniti) association on November 6, 2024, freely translated by Giacomo Tessaro "Soy A Hombre Transgénero" (I am a transgender man) said Maxwell Kuzma to Pope Francis when his hand were tightened in St. Peter's Square during a general hearing at the end of October (2024). Maxwell is one of the ...

Testimony of Don Giuseppe taken from the book consecrated loves. Testimonies of nuns, friars and homosexual priests in Italy, edited by Franco Barbero, Gabrielli Editori, 2019, pp. 27-30 My name is Giuseppe, Don Giuseppe for many, or simply "the Don". I would like to start with the end. Having made peace with homosexual reality helped me understand my whole life ...