Category: Consecrated lives

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...

Articolo di Ludovica Eugenio pubblicato sul settimanale Adista Notizie n.17 del 14 maggio 2022, pag.13-14 Per suor Janet Rozzano, delle Sisters of Mercy, la scoperta della propria omosessualità è avvenuta gradualmente, nel corso degli anni ‘60 e ‘70, quando nel suo diario raccontava emozioni di gioia e paura nel rapporto con altre donne. Quando ebbe abbastanza coraggio da fare coming...

Articolo di Chrystel Domenjoz pubblicato sul sito dell’emittente RTS (Svizzera) il 22 febbraio 2019, liberamente tradotto da Manuela Salipante [Nel febbraio 2019] è uscito in contemporanea in venti Paesi il libro-inchiesta “Sodoma”. Il suo autore, il giornalista Frédéric Martel, denuncia la cultura della segretezza che circonda l’omosessualità “di massa” del clero [cattolico]. Il giornalista e sociologo, dichiaratamente gay, ha indagato...