GNRC Assembly 2025 – MADRID

Experience a transformative event that brings that brings together LGBTQ+ Catholics, families, friends and allies from around the world to share, learn, and celebrate our diverse community. August 21 → 25The GNRC Assembly  offers a platform to engage in meaningful...

Equal dignity in Christ”: Italy’s Synod chooses the path of inclusion

🌿 “Equal Dignity in Christ”: a New Breath for the Italian Church Rome, October 25, 2025 – 9:42 p.m. CEST With 781 votes in favor out of 809, the Third Synodal Assembly of the Catholic Church in Italy approved this afternoon its final document, Leaven of Peace and Hope...

Inclusion Is the Gospel Itself — Mons. Francesco Savino’s Courageous Vision of Church and Humanity

Dear friends,what many of us have been quietly building across Europe is beginning to bear fruit. Our prayers, our testimonies, our patient presence as faithful and hopeful Christians are helping the Church recognise in us a genuine desire to walk in faith. This week,...

Art corner: Carl Gopalkrishnan — Through Other Eyes

Carl Gopalkrishnan describes his practice as “drawing on religion, science, mythology, literature, politics, and music.”Born in the United Kingdom to Chinese and Indian parents and now living in Perth, Australia, he has worked for decades as a painter, printmaker,...

Contemplative Spiritual Formation Gathering

The GNRC Contemplative Spiritual Formation committee invites you to its up coming bi-weekly online gathering. Date and Time: Our next gatherings will be on Saturday, October 18, Nov. 1, 15, 29. Note that many times will change on Nov. 2. Our starting time is anchored...

Jo O’ Sullivan: A Personal Account

Sometimes in life, we have experiences which impact so strongly on us that we desperately want to share that impact with others but are reluctant to begin, for fear we can’t do the experience justice. That’s where I am right now. I’ve returned from five incredible...

Encounters at the LGBTIQ+ Jubilee of Hope: On Intermediaries and evocative testimonies 

The first weekend of September was an important one in the Vatican calendar, with Pope Leo XIV presiding over the canonisation ceremony of Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati. These two young men separated by almost a century were raised to the altars as evocative...

Testimony of Lucia and Remo: Jubilee Pilgrimage

Testimony of Lucia and Remo, participants in the Jubilee Pilgrimage of “La Tenda di Gionata and other associations” at the Church of the Gesù in Rome, September 5, 2025 “How good and joyful it is when brothers dwell together, like oil running down the beard, perfuming...

Reminiscences on the Rainbow Jubilee of grace

Last weekend, a group of pilgrims from Drachma LGBTI+ and Drachma Parents joined about 1400 other LGBTIQ+ pilgrims from all over the world in what was a historic first Jubilee pilgrimage organised for LGBTIQ+ Catholic pilgrims under the pseudonym Jubilee for Tenda di...

Walking Through a Door Together

The rainbow cross rose above the crowd as hundreds of LGBT+ Catholics and their families walked up Via della Conciliazione. Songs, banners, and prayers turned the long road to St. Peter’s into something more than a procession: it became a visible sign that the...

A Jubilee Heard Around the World

We thought we were walking in Rome, but suddenly we were walking everywhere. About 1,400 of us, from thirty countries, with the rainbow cross lifted high, and the press caught it from every angle. The Italian papers told of the Church of Gesù overflowing, of Bishop...

Pilgrimage

2025Jubilee Pilgrimage  The Global Network...

Pilgrims’ Rest

After the journey, a shared table.The Pilgrims’...

THE CORNER 14

In this edition of The Corner, we invite you on...

Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati, both young and prolific in their time, but...

Colors for the Jubilee Pilgrimage of LGBT+ Pilgrims

Colors for the Jubilee Pilgrimage of LGBT+ Pilgrims

Hello, my name is Sawa Namira Previti, I am thirteen years old and I paint in a cubist style. I often begin with a simple drawing, a line, and then I let myself be carried away. Sometimes a face is born, sometimes a body that breaks apart, other times symbols that...

The coins in the handkerchief (article also available in Spanish)

The coins in the handkerchief (article also available in Spanish)

The coins in the handkerchief. (Spanish translation below) - Lord, your money has produced ten times as much. - Lord, here's your money, I've kept it in a handkerchief. I am 36 years old, and I can say that God has granted me a great number of gifts and charisms. I...

Pilgrimage

Pilgrimage

2025Jubilee Pilgrimage  The Global Network of Rainbow Catholics is honoured to be a partner in the Jubilee event Pellegrinaggio de La Tenda di Gionata e Altre Associazioni. Our mission: to connect LGBTQ+ Catholic groups worldwide, promote inclusion, and build...

The meaning of the Jubilee and how GNRC became partner

The meaning of the Jubilee and how GNRC became partner

On 6 September 2025, hundreds of LGBT+ Catholics, their families, and allies will gather in Rome for the Pellegrinaggio de La Tenda di Gionata e altre associazioni. They will walk together from Piazza Pia to the Holy Door of St Peter’s Basilica — a journey of prayer,...

Delivering hope / Entregar Esperanza

Delivering hope / Entregar Esperanza

Delivering Hope (Spanish version below) Hello, I am Maritza Fuenzalida Salas, a woman, bisexual, activist, Catholic, and believer. I belong to the Comunidad de Vida y Coro Diversidad Vocal (Community of Life and Vocal Diversity Choir) in Chile. For me, belonging to...

LGBT+ Spanish History

LGBT+ Spanish History

This timeline traces key moments in the struggle for LGBT+ rights in Spain, from repression under Franco's regime to legal recognition and social inclusion. It is a story of  efforts, activism, communities, and policymakers who shaped a path toward justice and...

Pilgrimage

Pilgrimage

2025Jubilee Pilgrimage  The Global Network of Rainbow Catholics is honoured to be a partner...

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