Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity

shrike3

(5,370 posts) Thu Jun 15, 2023, 01:35 PM Jun 2023

Pride month at Holy Trinity parish in Washington D.C.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pride-backlash-targets-catholics-who-are-trying-to-be-more-like-jesus/ar-AA1cBn1J?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=9b79887dec0d4c5aa83dc341cae53616&ei=10

The ministry was founded thanks to “a commitment by the Jesuit order to make sure that the spiritual needs of all marginalized community are being met,” said Ernie Raskauskas, 71, who has been a Holy Trinity parishioner for decades.

He went to Gonzaga College High School, Holy Cross College, Catholic University. He’s got the Catholic bona fides. In Georgetown, he finally found a place to be Catholic and gay after the Jesuits “decided that the LGBTQIA communities were very marginalized, that our spiritual needs weren’t being met, and that they were going to make a special effort on this.”

The parishioners are all deeply Catholic and found a place at Holy Trinity — and nearly everyone I spoke with said this explicitly — where they can be fully themselves.

“It may be difficult to be queer in Catholic spaces,” said Cerissa Cafasso, 40. “But it can also be a challenge to be Catholic in progressive spaces.”

She’s a lawyer and bisexual and never gave up on practicing Catholicism but wasn’t totally comfortable until she came to Holy Trinity. “I can be myself, my full person, with no throat clearing.”