Outreach Catholic

The site features news stories, opinion pieces and resources pertaining to the Catholic Church and the LGBTQ community.

This section encompasses a variety of voices, scholarly, theological, and magisterial; who go through and dismantle biblical arguments against homosexuality.

Every year over the summer (usually during Pride Month), Outreach holds a conference with several keynote speakers, discussion panels, resources, and mass.

[5] The organization's website includes a new section called "The Gaudete" which features articles from Christian (primarily Catholic) writers pertaining to LGBT issues.

Topics cover issues on gender, race, religious trauma, sexual ethics, transgender identity and politics within the catholic Church.

I encourage you all to keep working in the culture of encounter, which shortens the distances and enriches us with differences, in the same manner of Jesus, who made himself close to everyone.

Other clergy have given responses to Outreach conferences; Cardinal Dolan, the archbishop of New York City, sent a letter to James Martin during the 2023 Outreach conference stating, "It is the sacred duty of the Church and Her ministers to reach out to those on the periphery and draw them to a closer relationship with Jesus Christ and His Church.

He further clarified, however, that the Church's teachings on sexual ethics can not change and provides a list of 6 pastoral guidelines for LGBT+ Catholics.

This need is the shared desire of all persons to find "intimacy with the Triune God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.” 2.

Archbishop Lori reminds his flock that “the Church is not a club or a political party.” It is the Body of Christ, a place where everybody should feel like they belong.