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Called by Name
an initiative coordinated by Alessandro Ludovico Previti
with the supervision of Father Pino Piva
In recent years, in Italy and beyond, priests, religious and other people engaged in pastoral care have walked alongside LGBT+ people and their families, through listening, prayer and spiritual accompaniment.
From this journey some appointments are born: Priests and nuns, starting from their pastoral experience, invite us to pray, tell a journey, share what they have seen and lived. They are online meetings to reflect in the light of the Gospel and also find a space for dialogue. Not conferences, not debates, but moments of prayer, listening and spiritual accompaniment.
During the appointments, Italian-English interpreting will be available to allow more people to follow. Coordination offers practical support, and associations support for dissemination, but each evening is a unique invitation, which preserves the face of the inviting priest or nun.
Invitation after invitation, like pebbles placed next to each other, these moments form a path. This trail has been given a name: Called by name. Because you are all called by name.
One invitation at a time
Called by Name is a decentralised project: each invitation comes from those who propose it and bring with them their gaze, their path, their voice. It is not a selection built to support a unique message, but a space where different Church experiences can speak with freedom and responsibility.
It is precisely this freedom that makes meetings alive, and that, over time, builds a shared history.
In fact, the meeting does not belong to one or another organisation. Instead, it is coordinated by people called by name.
May 8 2026
Chiara and Francis: the force of disarmament, the force of the Gospel
A reflection on an evangelical path made of meekness, fidelity and fraternity, starting from the experience of s. Chiara and Francis of Assisi. A meeting of listening, prayer and questions about how the disarmament of the heart can still open true paths of fraternity today.
Sister Enrica Solmi is an Italian Franciscan religious linked to the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of Palagano (Modena) and engaged in a journey of listening and accompanying LGBT+ people and their families inside the Church
Jun 19 2026
A touch that welcomes and heals
Jesus heals the leper: Mt 8,2-4. The space before us that marks the possibility or refusal of communication becomes for the Lord the choice to welcome the excluded and marginalised person.
Lebosy assumes the symbolism of what we don't want to understand, understand, accept in others.
Jesus heals those who still do not see the person.
Don Andrea Bigalli
Giugno 28, 2026
From a bureaucratic Church to a family where you feel at home
Can a mother forget the fruit of her womb?”
The image of a mother who does not forget her child speaks of a relationship that comes before rules, before roles, before definitions. The Church can sometimes appear as a place of practises, documents and procedures, but the Gospel always brings back to a home, to relationships, to a family where people are sons and daughters, known and called by name.
Don Marco Torre, priest of the diocese of Chiavari and coordinator of the "Love on the way" team of the Diocesan Family Pastoral Service, committed to accompanying LGBT+ people and their families
Jul 3 2026
An evangelical presence
Between Ezekiel 34 and John 10, the meeting with the other who asks for attention, truth and availability.
Father Luca Lunardon
Don Luca Lunardon is a priest of the Diocese of Vicenza and a moral theologian. His academic and pastoral work focuses on the relationship between theology, lived experience, and accompaniment, with particular attention to LGBT+ Christians and their place within the life of the Church.
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Don Andrea Conocchia is a Catholic priest of the Diocese of Albano and parish priest in Torvaianica, near Rome. He is known for his pastoral work with people in situations of marginalisation and social vulnerability, including migrants, homeless people, and LGBT+ people, promoting a Church marked by welcome, closeness, and concrete care.
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Prayer
Each meeting will feature a prayer space led by our priests and nuns.
Dialogue
There will be space for dialogue, questions and testimony
Reflections
Each meeting will cover a new topic and prompt a fresh reflection to inspire.
Inclusion
All priests and nuns accompany us as we believe and work for an inclusive Church.
Pastoral care
Most of those who invite have been actively working to develop LGBT+ pastoral care.
Faith
At the core of this is our faith, not politics or debates, but prayer and spiritual accompaniment.
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The core team
Supervision: Father Pino Piva
General coordination: Alessandro Ludovico Previti
Persons, not brands, because faith is at the center and we are called by name
Called by Name is not owned or coordinated by any NGO. This is a deliberate and thoughtful choice. The initiative grows from people personally called, from priests and sisters who speak in their own voice, and it invites each person as they are, called by name.
Visibility partners
All associations are welcome to participate. The visibility partners support the initiative with a commitment to concretely promote the activities.