James Martin, S.J., explains Catholic teaching on LGBTQ people, from Scripture and the Catechism to human dignity, pastoral ...

Reflecting on the AIDS crisis, Michael A. Zampelli, S.J. considers the suffering of Christ during a homily at the Outreach ...

Outreach gathered 35 pilgrims to journey through the LGBTQ Catholic history of Manhattan, especially during the HIV/AIDS ...

Outreach asked some of the world’s leading Catholic theologians and scholars to reflect on the import of the work of Study Group 9: what it means for the church and for LGBTQ Catholics. We hope this ...

Jesus meeting the Samaritan woman at the well is one of the most powerful encounters in all the Gospels. For one, he speaks with a woman he does not know in a hospitable way even though they are from ...

It’s an old story, too often repeated: Catholic parishioners in the Chicago suburb of Inverness were devastated by the firing of their beloved music director in 2014. His infraction? He was gay and ...

Each one of us has, at some point, experienced what it means to be a stranger. Sometimes it happens on a journey to a place where we do not speak the language or understand the customs. More often, it ...

The following is the text of a homily delivered by Cardinal Robert McElroy, the archbishop of Washington, D.C., at the Outreach conference at Georgetown University on June 20, 2026. The text has been ...

This essay appears in the forthcoming French volume Homos Et Cathos: L’Église à l’épreuve du réel (Gays and Catholics: The Church Put to the Test of Reality), published by Desclée De Brouwer. Read in ...

In its final report, released yesterday, Study Group 9, tasked by the Synod of Bishops with looking at “emerging issues,” proposed new questions about the church’s approach to homosexuality and gay ...

Outreach asked some of the world’s leading Catholic theologians and scholars to reflect on the import of the work of Study Group 9: what it means for the church and for LGBTQ Catholics. We hope this ...