by Alessandro Previti | Oct 25, 2025 | **Regions**, Europe, GNRC Blog
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,...
by Alessandro Previti | Oct 22, 2025 | **Regions**, Arts and crafts, Asia Pacific, GNRC Blog, North America
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,...
by Alessandro Previti | Sep 29, 2025 | **Regions**, Asia Pacific, Assembly, Opinions, Pastoral Care, Testimony
The 5th Assembly of the Global Network of Rainbow Catholics (GNRC) in Madrid, Spain, was a deeply enriching and transformative experience for me, both personally and pastorally. As a Catholic priest and an ally accompanying gender and sexual minorities in India, I...
by Alessandro Previti | Sep 29, 2025 | **Regions**, Assembly, Europe, GNRC Blog, Opinions, Testimony
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...
by Alessandro Previti | Sep 13, 2025 | **Regions**, Europe, GNRC Blog, Jubilee
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...