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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...

Contemplative Spiritual Formation Gathering

The GNRC Contemplative Spiritual Formation committee invites you to its next bi-weekly online gathering. Date and Time: Our next gathering will be on Saturday, October 4th:  7 a.m. San Francisco/Vancouver; 8 a.m. Denver/Calgary/Mexico; 9 a.m. Chicago/Winnipeg/Lima; 10...

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...

Rainbow blessings in the Jubilee

What does it mean for me to walk through the Holy Doors, not just as a pilgrim, but as a Catholic LGBTI+ person? It is difficult to express the feelings and sensations that this brings to my mind and heart. But if there is a word, that is gratefulness to God.  For the...

Members of World’s Oldest LGBTQ+ Catholic Group to Participate in Vatican LGBTQ+ Pilgrimage

September 2, 2025. A delegation from DignityUSA, the world’s oldest LGBTQ+ Catholic organization, will be among the more than 1,000 people from over 30 countries participating in the first-ever Jubilee Pilgrimage for LGBTQ+ people that is recognized by the Vatican....

Private audience of Father James Martin, S.J., with Pope Leo XIV: facts, context, pastoral implications

On 1 September 2025, Pope Leo XIV received Father James Martin, S.J., in a private audience in the Apostolic Palace as part of the pope’s official schedule. Father Martin is a U.S. Jesuit, editor at large of America and founder of Outreach, a ministry serving LGBTQ...

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...

Las semillas de la 4a asamblea de la GNRC en México.

Las semillas de la 4a asamblea de la GNRC en México.

Las semillas de la 4a asamblea de la GNRC en México. (scroll down for the English version) Mirar desde la esperanza fue la primer semilla que se sembró en mi desde aquel septiembre del 2022, fecha en que se llevó a cabo en la ciudad de México la cuarta asamblea de la...

History does not repeat (if we learn, remember, and act)

History does not repeat (if we learn, remember, and act)

Over the past few years, many of us engaged in faith-based and civil society activism have sensed a growing hostility in the air. Ari Shaw’s recently wrote an article in Foreign Affairs confirming with clarity that it is not only a matter of perception. The rise in...

Pilgrimage

Pilgrimage

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

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