Kampala Key, Vulnerable and Priority Populations (KVP) News

Identity can be used to favour or deny one services or access. We continue with the series in Catherine Buck's article that appeared in the New Ways Ministry. The title is: " Candidates, LGBTQ Advocates Challenge Use of Catholic Parishes for Election Events ." A recent profile in The Advocate is raising awareness about a new short film that tells the story of a priest newly diagnosed with HIV. The film is seeking funding on Kickstarter and is described as exploring “a moment in the life of one priest who is faced with a crossroads of health and identity, threatening to deconstruct his entire belief system.” In the opening seconds of his Kickstarter video, Sebastian La Cause, writer/director, gives a rapid-fire pitch for the production: “Set in dynamic East Los Angeles, Holy Water follows a gay priest at a crossroad of identity and self-acceptance as he struggles to come to terms with an HIV diagnosis.” He then quotes Joyce Carol Oates about the power of wri...

" The chapel at Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School in Indianapolis lost its Catholic designation for refusing to terminate gay employees at the archbishop's request,   has filed a legal appeal to the Vatican to reverse the archdiocese's decision."  This is a report from Shine ( 2019) "Meanwhile, the archbishop has barred the school from holding school-wide Masses. Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School, Indianapolis, has asked the Vatican to reconsider Indianapolis Archbishop Charles Thompson's decree which removed the school's Catholic designation in June because school officials  refused to fire  Layton Payne-Elliott over his same-gender marriage. According to a  letter  from school president Fr. William Verbryke, S.J., the Jesuits' USA Midwest Province first formally appealed to the archbishop, who refused to overturn his decree. The Province has now asked the Congregation for Catholic Education to review Thompson's dec...