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Press release, June 1, 2011 John McNeill, the 85-year-old gay pioneer priest, will travel from his home in Florida (USA) to Rome (Italy) for Europride 2011.  John returns to the heart of Catholicism, where he was ordered to silence in 1977 for speaking and writing on issues of homosexuality by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the man who later became Pope Benedict...

Abstract of the report of Michael Brinkschroeder* (Germany), Conference ‘LGBT people and Christian churches in Europe: fears and opportunities for full acceptance and inclusion’, Rome, June 10th 2011 The Catholic church in Germany is in a state of fermentation right now. While the 90s and the 00s were years of stagnation both in the church and in academic theology, causing...

Abstract of the report of rev. Hilde Raastad* (Norway), Conference ‘LGBT people and Christian churches in Europe: fears and opportunities for full acceptance and inclusion’, Rome, June 10th 2011 When I first kissed another woman, and discovered myself as a lesbian, I became a whole human being. Many LGBTs share this experience; that accepting and embracing our sexuality, helps us...

Abstract of the report of Martin Pendergast* (UK), Conference ‘LGBT people and Christian churches in Europe: fears and opportunities for full acceptance and inclusion’, Rome, June 10th 2011 He will speak about the experience and development of the Soho Masses Catholic LGBT Community in London , its recognition as a formal pastoral provision of the Archdiocese of Westminster, and the...

Telling stories about people through images is what I’ve been trying to do all my life long. This involves a search for closeness and intimacy that has no precise rules or proven methods to follow. Portraying people, in my opinion, means to establish a dialogue with them not necessarily made of words, where the shot has the value of  synthesis....