Leo XIII spoke often of the family as the cell of society. For many LGBTIQ Catholics, “family” has been a place of both joy and deep wounds. His words challenge me to ask: how do we expand the meaning of family so that no child of God is left outside the circle of care? How do we heal the community wounds that make so many LGBT+ reject, by pain and not by choice, the longing for belonging?
Justice begins in the small spaces we call home.