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At Archbishop Thabo Makgoba's final Provincial Synod, the Anglican Church of Southern Africa rejected a motion to pray for members in committed same-sex unions by 78 votes to 71. Queer Anglicans say the door is closed for now, but closer to opening than ever.
Pope Leo XIV began a four-day visit to Paris, Lourdes and Metz on September 25. France's oldest LGBT association is showing up to be seen, and its members say kind words are no longer enough.
Archbishop Cyril Kobina Ben-Smith, the Anglican Primate of West Africa, spent years backing Ghana's push to criminalize LGBTQ+ people. In a BBC interview last week, he said the church doesn't support it — a shift that won't undo the law, but complicates the religious cover it's relied on.
A new Health Ministry clinical guideline sets out the first formal framework for trans hormone treatment in Albania. Muslim and Christian leaders are calling it a moral threat; the government calls it overdue clinical guidance.
On May 6 the Vatican made public a previously private 2024 doctrinal-office letter to Germany's bishops opposing formalized same-sex blessings. Three days later, an AP profile of Pope Leo XIV's first year crystallized what queer Catholics are reading: real openness to LGBTQ+ voices, a hard stop on doctrinal change.
Released May 5, the Holy See's synod study group report is the first official Vatican document to feature testimony from civilly married gay men and to describe reparative therapies as causing 'profound suffering.' It does not change doctrine — and that's the point.
Returning from Africa on April 23, Pope Leo XIV told journalists that formalized same-sex blessings 'can cause more disunity than unity' and that doctrine on sexuality is not changing. LGBTQ+ Catholics are reading the pastoral hedging and the doctrinal hold-the-line at the same time.
