Embracing Womyn

To attract and engage all who identify as women from within, and outside of GNRC. We strive to have a voice and influence on the workings of the organisation. We wish to see GNRC become truly diverse and inclusive not just with its Mission Statement, but through its actions and internal and outward facing representations. Currently the Committee is working on a pre conference for women at the next GNRC Assembly in Mexico in 2022.

Rainbow Pastoral Committee

Creating a digital map of existing Catholic organisations that offer pastoral care for LGBTIQ people.

Contemplative Spiritual Formation Committee

Who we are:  Offering contemplative practices, including prayers of silence, which make us more aware of the divine indwelling in everyone, we are LGBTQIA+ catholics and contemplatives who gather every other Friday in a prayerful space graciously offered by the Meditation Chapel-Online Meditation Community (https://meditationchapel.org/). 
We aspire to become a “Centre of Inwardness” without borders and where everyone is welcome. By welcoming everyone as Christ himself, we have become a diverse group of people coming from different backgrounds and countries. 

Prophecy and Justice

To share with everyone the vision of GNRC as we take an active role in using our voice in the campaign towards having a more inclusive Catholic Church. Positions that are research-based giving value to people’s lived experiences define the campaigns of the committee. We hope to achieve a truly just Church, one with the plight of the people, and prophesy God’s love to all.

Diversity

The Diversity Committee, currently under construction, aims at developing and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion policies within GNRC at all levels. The committee will engage in dialogue with member communities to learn from their unique experiences and needs; to acknowledge and raise awareness to structural, deeply rooted, naturalized inequalities; and to survey good equality and diversity practices already in place. Our vision is to help GNRC not only fight inequalities and promote inclusion, but also celebrate diversity for its own sake.

Theology

The Theological committee seeks to reflect on theological, religious and spiritual issues and dynamics that are pertinent to the LGBTI community, by embedding them in a holistic approach. The committee has been operating for the last year and meets regularly once a month. Currently we are working on a document that explains our philosophy and modus operandi, as well as on a thelogical reflection on same-sex blessings. The members of the committee are: Tyrone Grima, Mary Hunt, James Alison, Kevin Schembri, Susanne Birke, Martin Pendergast and Edward Dooley.