Vatican says LGBTQ+ pilgrimage will return to Jubilee 2025 calendar

LGBTQ pilgrimage to take place during Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee

A group of LGBTQ Christians in Italy has said the Vatican has approved its request to make a pilgrimage during the Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee. The National Catholic Register on Dec. 11 reported La Tenda di Gionata (Jonathan’s Tent) — an Italian Christian group that helps “LGBT people and their families feel welcome in their church” — asked members to “save the date” of Sept. 6, 2025, and invited “all associations and groups dedicated to supp…

Vatican says LGBTQ+ pilgrimage will return to Jubilee 2025 calendar

ROME – According to Vatican organizers of 2025 Jubilee Year, the on-again, off-again listing of a Sept. 6, 2025, pilgrimage for LGBTQ+ Catholics on the official calendar isn’t about attempting to squelch or censor anyone, but rather a bureaucratic matter of collecting the necessary information to register an event. When it was first discovered some time ago that a pilgrimage for LGBTQ+ Catholics sponsored by a group called La Tenda di Gionata, o…

Vatican registers Italian LGBTQ+ group for Holy Year pilgrimage - The Dialog

VATICAN CITY — An Italian association for LGBTQ+ Christians, their parents and the priests and religious who minister with them is among the many groups registered to make a pilgrimage together through the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. Dioceses, parishes, Catholic organizations and prayer groups who register and reserve a time to make a pilgrimage during the Jubilee 2025 are listed on the “general calendar” of the Vatican’s o…