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Home Office failing LGBTQI+ people in asylum accommodation

Report finds Home Office system for providing accommodation to people seeking asylum is inadequate to ‘take proper account of the needs of LGBTQI+ individuals’. An independent inspection of the Home Office’s management of asylum accommodation has found that the Home Office is not giving any choice to LGBTQI+ people about the accommodation in which they are placed…… Continue reading Home Office failing LGBTQI+ people in asylum accommodation

Nottingham Diocesan LGBT+ Mass

Approximately 50 persons attended Mass at Our Lady’s Church in Bulwell, Nottingham on Saturday 3rd November for the Diocese of Nottingham’s Mass for LGBT+ Catholics, their friends and families. The principal celebrant was the Parish Priest, Fr John Martin, who was joined by two concelebrants and the Parish Deacon, the Reverend Martyn Swaby. This is…… Continue reading Nottingham Diocesan LGBT+ Mass

Survey reveals majority of global Catholics support rethink of LGBT teachings

A new survey of global Catholics published to coincide with the recent Synod on Youth has found a majority of respondents believe church teaching on LGBT issues should be reconsidered for the well-being of young people. The survey, released by the coalition group Equal Future 2018, found that 65% of baptised Catholics worldwide and 63% of…… Continue reading Survey reveals majority of global Catholics support rethink of LGBT teachings

Quest 2018 Retreat

The retreat was deemed to have been a great success and worth repeating so the dates for next year’s retreat at the same venue have been booked (17th-19th May 2019). This year’s retreat was led by the Retreat Facilitator (and National Committee member), John Ashman. This was a last minute change as the member of…… Continue reading Quest 2018 Retreat

Gaudete et Exsultate (Rejoice and Be Glad)

Gaudete et Exsultate (Rejoice and Be Glad). Pope Francis I. Catholic Truth Society. ISBN 978-1-784-69596-5 Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation, Rejoice and Be Glad, on the call to holiness in today’s world, at a first glance did not appear to be the good read that I hoped it would be. Reviewers elsewhere have described it as…… Continue reading Gaudete et Exsultate (Rejoice and Be Glad)

Tragedies and joys in the pursuit of happiness

In March 2016, a 35-year-old junior barrister appeared at the Old Bailey in March and admitted two counts of supplying controlled drugs to his boyfriend, 18-year-old Colombian waiter, Miguel. The barrister woke on a morning in January 2015 to find his partner dead beside him. The previous afternoon they had taken their dog to the…… Continue reading Tragedies and joys in the pursuit of happiness

“Bind him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness”

  Do these words of Jesus offend our sense of justice and fairness? Jesus uses them in the parable of the wedding banquet (Matthew 22:2-14). Those invited to the banquet not only refuse to come, they make light of the invitation and even kill the king’s servants who delivered the invitations. So, the king sends…… Continue reading “Bind him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness”

2018 Conference Report

Lincoln Cathedral Quarter - Saturday 11th August 2018

This year’s Annual Conference, held in the comfortable surroundings of Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln, was my first experience of any Quest event, and I was not at all disappointed. It was good to enter as a group into the highly topical discussion surrounding James Martin’s book Building a Bridge. In a more general way I…… Continue reading 2018 Conference Report