Category: Consecrated lives
. Il mensile cattolico JESUS di maggio 2023 presenta un’ampia inchiesta intitolata “NOI, PRETI GAY CHE AMIAMO LA CHIESA”, sette pagine ricche di testimonianze e riflessioni, raccolte da Vittoria Priscindaro, che partono dal “documento per il Cammino sinodale firmato da cinquanta preti omosessuali italiani con cui hanno voluto aprire il dibattito per superare silenzi e contraddizioni” nella vita consacrata su questi...
Testimonianza di don Giuseppe tratta dal libro Amori consacrati. Testimonianze di suore, frati e preti omosessuali in Italia, a cura di Franco Barbero, Gabrielli Editori, 2019, pp. 27-30 Mi chiamo Giuseppe, don Giuseppe per molti, o semplicemente “il don”. Vorrei cominciare con la fine. Avere fatto pace con la realtà omosessuale mi ha aiutato a comprendere tutta la mia vita...
Article by Josselin Tricou* published on the EHNE website – Encyclopédie d'histoire numérique de l'Europe (France) on 22 June 2020, freely translated by Massimo de Il ramo del Mandorlo di Roma The priestly ideal (from the Latin sacer: sacred, separate), founded on the clergy/lay separation, has shaped and legitimized the atypical masculinity of Catholic clerics of the Latin rite. The Roman Catholic Church knew...
Text taken from the Book LGBTQ Catholics: A guide To Inclusive ministry By Yunuen Trujillo (Paulist Press, 2022), Chapter 2, Pages 11-12, freely translated By Giacomo tessaro for LGBTQ people who have made the promise of celibacy, and for men and women religious at all levels of church life, it Is often much more difficult to speak openly about their...
Article* by Sister Kate Reid ASC** published on the website of the Catholic LGBT association New Ways Ministry (United States) in April 2006, freely translated by Alessandra Vescera To our homosexual brothers and sisters... we extend our hands and invite you to do the same... we need each other if we want to "... grow in everything towards him, who is the...
Testimony of Sister Mary Janet Rozzano freely translated by Diana, revision by Giacomo Tessaro, second and final part The motto engraved on the silver ring I received when I took my final vows in 1964 read: “Guided by the Spirit”. I chose it more or less at the last minute, without thinking too much about it. As my sexuality developed, I often felt a…
Article* by Edgar Ulises** published on the Homosensual website (Mexico) on January 21, 2022, freely translated by Claudia Iuzzolino In the past, extremely religious countries such as Mexico, Spain, Chile and Italy were scandalized by the stories of some lesbian nuns. The launch of the film Benedetta in cinemas caused a stir, as it narrates the life of two lesbian nuns....
Article by Sister Tracey Horan* published on the Global Sisters Report website (United States) on April 6, 2022, freely translated by Giacomo Tessaro I arrived on a Friday afternoon in March in Racine, Wisconsin, where forty-four nuns from twenty-two congregations met under the aegis of New Ways Ministry. I looked around and smiled, thinking that the nuns know...
