This Halloween, LGBTQ Catholics can find freedom in the holiday’s history and celebrate their place in the church.

For one spiritual director and mother, walking with her transgender children has meant walking more closely with God.

This post begins a series that explores praying with the Mass from an LGBTQ perspective. The Outreach contributor Ariell Watson Simon considers various components of Catholic liturgy and how they ...

Outreach gathered with 300 LGBTQ Catholics, allies and those who minister to them in Atlanta for the "Mass of Belonging: More ...

Editor’s note: Outreach is working to make this article available in multiple languages to better serve LGBTQ Catholics around the world. With the help of human translators, we are gradually making ...

Outreach asked some of the world’s leading Catholic theologians and scholars to reflect on the import of the work of Study Group 9: what it means for the church and for LGBTQ Catholics. We hope this ...

It’s an old story, too often repeated: Catholic parishioners in the Chicago suburb of Inverness were devastated by the firing of their beloved music director in 2014. His infraction? He was gay and ...

Dolly Parton’s death inspired countless tributes from her fellow musical artists from every genre and style. Every single one of the remembrances I read—whether by country or bluegrass artists, pop, ...

I came to the Outreach Conference in June 2026 from Slovakia, a small Central European country where Christianity remains deeply woven into public life and national identity. After the fall of ...

The following is the text of a homily delivered by Cardinal Robert McElroy, the archbishop of Washington, D.C., at the Outreach conference at Georgetown University on June 20, 2026. The text has been ...

This essay appears in the forthcoming French volume Homos Et Cathos: L’Église à l’épreuve du réel (Gays and Catholics: The Church Put to the Test of Reality), published by Desclée De Brouwer. Read in ...