The Corner 15: The Open Door

With this new edition of The Corner, GNRC reaches a moment that feels like a milestone and a threshold. A door opens. Through it we can look back with gratitude and forward with quiet trust. Something is concluded. Everything continues. Madrid and Rome: where...

Christmas: Finding God Among the Overlooked

Christmas teaches us to find God incarnate in the places and people most disdained and overlooked. From the very beginning, the story of Christ’s birth points us toward the margins, toward humility, vulnerability, and surprising grace. For centuries, LGBT+ people have...

Contemplative Spiritual Formation Gathering

The GNRC Contemplative Spiritual Formation committee invites you to its up coming bi-weekly online gathering. Date and Time: Our next gathering will be on Saturday, Nov. 29. We meet every two weeks on Saturdays (e.g., Dec. 13, 27, Jan. 10, 24) 7 a.m.   San...

The Synodal Winds of Change in the Catholic Church

In these weeks, two signs have arrived from the heart of the Church: the Italian Bishops’ Conference has confirmed a series of pastoral proposals for LGBT+ people, and the General Secretariat of the Synod has released the recent Presentation of the Study Group. Taken...

Reaction to the Interim Report Study Group 9

Reaction to the Interim Report Study Group 9, published by the General Secretariat of the Synod on 17 November 2025 What springs most into view for me, a lesbian catholic, is that homosexuality is one of three issues formerly labeled as “controversial”, which in this...

Lunch with Pope Leo

On 16 November, the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall hosted more than 1,300 vulnerable people for the World Day of the Poor. Among them were forty-eight women from Torvaianica, some trans, many living through poverty, past violence or the fragility of the street. They were...

GNRC nominated for the 2025 San Sebastián Award in Spirituality

The Global Network of Rainbow Catholics has been officially nominated for the San Sebastián Awards 2025 (XVI Edition) in the category Spirituality. This nomination comes from the San Sebastián Community in Colombia, a network of Catholics who celebrate faith,...

The Corner 15: The Open Door

With this new edition of The Corner, GNRC reaches a moment that feels like a milestone and a threshold. A door opens. Through it we can look back with gratitude and forward with quiet trust. Something is concluded. Everything continues. Madrid and Rome: where...

The synodal pathway – Trust in the Slow Work of God

“Above all, trust in the slow work of God…that ideas mature gradually — let them grow. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Jesuit, theologian, French palaeontologist (1881–1955) I want to share some good news with you: the Synodal Pathway of the Italian Church is entering a...

Sr. Prema: A Life-Changing Encounter of Faith and Inclusion

My overall impression of the conference is overwhelmingly positive, It was a truly unforgettable, life-changing experience filled with grace and profound meaning in my life. I felt deeply fortunate to be among people of such remarkable integrity and spiritual...

Art corner: Matthew LaBanca — When Faith, Identity and Witness Meet

Matthew LaBanca stands at the intersection of devotion, creativity and identity. A Broadway-actor turned music teacher in a New York Catholic school, LaBanca’s story became the foundation of his solo play COMMUNION. According to his website, the show is “based on the...

Choosing the Word That Will Unite the Prayer Vigils 2026

Every year, around the International Day Against...

Pilgrimage

2025Jubilee Pilgrimage  The Global Network...

Pilgrims’ Rest

After the journey, a shared table.The Pilgrims’...

THE CORNER 14

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Grant Me Justice: John Kashiha

Grant Me Justice: John Kashiha

English / Español / German / Portugues John Justin Kashiha (32) from Tanzania has a university degree, but he already lost five jobs because of being gay. The criminalisation of his sexuality brings a lot of hardship into his life: “Sometimes I would like God to show...

Grant Me Justice: Jijio Kiriakose

Grant Me Justice: Jijio Kiriakose

English / Español / Portugues Jijo Kiriakose (33) from India finished his PhD in image processing and is now working as a research analyst. Next to his profession he is also a writer and an artist and manages an LGBT support group. In India intimate friendships...

Grant Me Justice: Joanita Ssenfuka

Grant Me Justice: Joanita Ssenfuka

English / Español / German / Portugues Joanita Warry Ssenfuka (35) from Uganda is a telecommunication engineer and activist. I prayed to God to many times to forgive me for – whatever With seven years I was attracted to my best friend. We lived together, we grew up...

Grant Me Justice: Luis Ramirez

Grant Me Justice: Luis Ramirez

English / Español / German / Portugues Luiz Ramires (57) from Sao Paolo, Brazil works as an indicator, training teachers and principals on gender and sexual diversity. At the moment he is doing his PhD in sociology of education. Becoming a priest to not commit a sin...

Grant Me Justice: Misha Tumasov

Grant Me Justice: Misha Tumasov

English / Español / German / Portugues Misha Tumasov (43) from Russia is a teacher and human rights activist. His life dream was to become a priest: “When you are speaking about the love of God, you become like a battery of love.” As a gay man he was forced to choose...

Grant Me Justice: Ryan Kollano

Grant Me Justice: Ryan Kollano

English / Español / German / Portugues Ryan Kollano (33) from Kenia was one of 9 kids from a poor family. He was fighting hard to go to school. He made it up to university. Because of being gay he lost everything – several times. The dream of going to school I was...

Grant Me Justice: Dumisani Dube

Grant Me Justice: Dumisani Dube

English / Spanish / Portugues Dumisani Dube (45) is from Zimbabwe, living in South Africa. He works for an LGBT-Organization as a consultant in Zimbabwe and in South Africa, which organises “Dialogue for change”:  dialogue between the LGBT commmunity and the religious...

DAI-ME JUSTIÇA

Dai-me Justiça: Exposição sobre “Criminalização de Pessoas Lésbicas, Gays, Bissexuais e Transgéneros e a Igreja Católica” English / Español / Portugues  Europa, Dezembro 2018. Durante a Assembleia da...

DADME JUSTICIA

Dadme Justicia: Exhibición sobre la “Criminalización de Personas Lesbianas, Gays, Bisexuales y Transgeneros y la Iglesía Católica” English / Español / Portugues  Europa, Diciembre 2018. Durante la Asamblea de la GNRC en Dachau, algunos de sus...

Robert Mickens

Robert Mickens lavora a Roma, da quasi trent’anni, come giornalista, opinionista ed esperto...

ANNA MARIA VITAGLIANI

ANNA MARIA VITAGLIANI

SPIRITUAL ACCOMPANYING IN THE EXISTENTIAL FRONTIERS Accompagnare spiritualmente nelle...

PINO PIVA SJ

Chiesa-Casa-per-tutti Vuole essere una semplice opportunità per sperimentare un modo di essere...

Rungrote Tangsurakit

Rungrote Tangsurakit

Leave No One Behind: Inclusive Engagement for Total Human Development “Nessuno sia lasciato...

Sr. Jeannine Gramick

UNA PARROCCHIA ACCOGLIENTE E IN CUI E’ POSSIBILE PER LE PERSONE LGBT VIVERE IN MODO AFFERMATIVO...

MARTIN PENDERGAST

Martin Pendergast ha lavorato su tematiche LGBT cattoliche nel Regno Unito dal 1976. E ‘uno dei...

PEDRO LABRIN S.J.

PEDRO LABRIN S.J. (49) èun prete Jesuita dal 1997 e vive e lavora in Cile. Attualmente,...

MARY MCALEESE

Mary McAleese è stata Presidente d’Irlanda dal 1997 fino al 2011. E’ stata la prima presidente a...

2. Versammlung des GNRC

2. Versammlung des GNRC

„Höre die gerechte Sache” (Ps 17,1) Einladung zur 2. Versammlung des Global Network of Rainbow...

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