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Why Remain Catholic?

Why Remain Catholic?

Andy Buechel, December 2017 For Catholics who disagree with the magisterium on matters pertaining to LGBTQ persons, an important question will inevitably arise from time to time: “Why am I still Catholic, then?” This is a question that is addressed to us by others,...

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A Privileged Ministry – Sr. Luisa Derouen

If anyone had told me that I would have the privilege of spending the last years of my ministerial life with transgender people I would never have believed it! God’s middle name is truly Surprise! I have a gay brother and a lesbian sister and have had gay and lesbian...

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Miriam: Stories of Faith and Transition

I am a Catholic Christian, 61 years old, transgender male-to-female, divorced by my wife who also succeeded in procuring an annulment. My ex-wife and 4 children now live a distance away. As a child, we were a nominally Catholic Christian household, my parents and 5...

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Sara talks of her love of music and of her God.

My music and religion are deeply intertwined within my soul. My life would have no meaning without music and without God, without spirit, without a daily soulful prayer to the Creator. As a young child I played piano, Mozart symphonies and other classics, with lessons...

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Colt Meier St. Amand ( he/ they ) is a clinical psychologist and Texas’ preeminent researcher on transgender issues. Just 30 years old, Colt’s findings informed the American Psychological Association’s first guidelines for the clinical care transgender patients. Colt’s work is just beginning.

Pronouns: he/theyColt Meier St. Amand is a clinical psychologist and Texas’s preeminent  researcher on transgender issues. Just 30 years old, Colt was the first researcher in the country to demonstrate the psychological effects of testosterone therapy in trans men...

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