Gay couple photobombs Pope Leo XIV celebration with a kiss on live TV in St. Peter's Square
Habemus gay osculum! We have a gay kiss!
MAY 9, 2025
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Pope Francis Admires 'Masterpiece' of Man-Woman Marriage
The pope's exaltation of opposite-sex marriage came a day after the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on extending marriage rights to same-sex couples.
APRIL 30, 2015
'God's Not Afraid of New Things,' Pope Tells Antigay Bishops
The pope isn't taking the roll-back of language that would have made the Catholic Church more welcoming to LGBTs, the divorced, and unmarried couples as a defeat.
OCTOBER 19, 2014
Pope Francis dead at 88: Looking back on his LGBTQ+ rights legacy
In recent years, Pope Francis suffered various health issues and was recently discharged from the hospital. He leaves behind a complicated legacy regarding LGBTQ+ rights in the Catholic Church.
APRIL 21, 2025
Enormous Crowds Descend on Rome to Protest Civil Unions
While France, Ireland, and the U.K. have already enacted marriage equality, Italy still struggles with offering any legal recognition to same-sex couples.
JUNE 21, 2015
Pope Francis: Gender Theory Doesn't 'Recognize Order of Creation'
Just one month after the pope held a historic private meeting with a transgender man and his fiancee, a new book includes antitransgender remarks from the pontiff.
FEBRUARY 20, 2015
For Pope Francis, 87, It’s Out with the Old and In With the New
As a transitional pontiff, Francis will not be pulled backwards.
DECEMBER 19, 2023
Tens of Thousands Rally in Spain in Defense of Traditional Family
Tens of thousands of people in predominantly Roman Catholic Spain rallied Sunday in Madrid to defend the traditional family in a country where the government has legalized same-sex marriage and facilitated divorce. The crowd roared when Pope Benedict XVI appeared on giant TV screens in a live hookup from St. Peter's Square in Vatican City, praising the crowd. The pope, speaking during the traditional noon Sunday Angelus prayer, said the family is ''based on the unbreakable union of man and woman and represents the privileged environment where human life is welcomed and protected from the beginning to its natural end.''
JANUARY 2, 2008
'The Francis Effect': A Historic LGBT Pilgrimage to Rome
LGBT Catholics on a pilgrimage to Rome were for the first time given VIP seats near Pope Francis himself for the pontiff's weekly audience in St. Peter's Square.
FEBRUARY 18, 2015
Ex-Pope Benedict XVI, a Staunch Anti-LGBTQ+ Pontiff, Dies at 95
The Pope Emeritus, who retired from the papacy in 2013, said marriage equality was the product of the Antichrist.
DECEMBER 31, 2022
Pope Benedict XVI Announces Resignation
The 85-year-old pope will leave the Vatican at the end of February due to declining health.
FEBRUARY 11, 2013
The legacy of John Paul II
The first "television pope" helped to defeat Communism and to inspire a new generation of Catholics. But this pope also ignored an epidemic of pedophilia while giving prominent attention to the vilification of God's gay and lesbian children. We can only hope the next pope will be more compassionate.
APRIL 1, 2005
Gays rally against pope at the Vatican
Holding placards denouncing the Catholic Church, dozens of gay rights activists protested outside St. Peter's Square on Friday, a day after Pope Benedict made a speech condemning same-sex relationships.
JANUARY 13, 2006
Can the Catholic Church be saved?
While most gay Catholics agree that the new pope is likely to be conservative, some find hope in a groundswell of support for gay equality in the parishes of Western nations
APRIL 25, 2005
Will the Catholic Church continue blessing same-sex couples under Pope Leo XIV?
A Vatican official spoke with a reporter about the topic recently.
JULY 9, 2025
Queen Elizabeth II to Visit Pope Francis in April
The Queen of England will meet Pope Francis at the Vatican in April during a one-day visit to Italy.
FEBRUARY 4, 2014
Blasphemy is coming to St. Peter’s Square as Trump tries to hijack Pope Francis’s funeral to feed his ego
Opinion:The upcoming sight of Trump at the Vatican stirs thoughts so ruinous, I’d need months in the confessional to repent, writes John Casey.
APRIL 23, 2025
Pope Francis Again Cautions Against Admitting Gays to Priesthood
The news comes shortly after the pope reportedly told a gay man, "God made you like this and loves you like this."
MAY 26, 2018