“It is not good for man to be alone.” On groups of LGBT Christians and their parents

“How many homosexual Christians are there in Italy?; What kind of reception or exclusion do they experience together with their parents?; How can their pastoral journey help the Catholic Church to increasingly be a "field hospital" capable of welcoming everyone?; What challenges and questions does this welcome concretely pose?”.

These are some of the questions that emerge in “It is not good for man to be alone. The bet of groups of Christian homosexuals and their parents”, a 40-page booklet, revised and updated in this second edition created by the associationLa Tenda di Gionatato offer some keys to understanding the path of LGBT Christians and their parents, and some answers to the many questions that are often asked about these realities.

Don Gian Luca Carrega, director of the Office for the Pastoral Care of Culture of the diocese of Turin which also deals with pastoral activities for LGBT people and their families on behalf of its Archbishop, writes in the preface to the volume that "If we start talking about gender and civil unions (in the church) your interlocutor puts on gloves and starts a round of boxing. Sometimes it may even be useful to beat yourself up, but you don't get very far.
To make a journey requires patience and you must learn to look at things also through the eyes of others. And the journey changes us, inevitably changes us. (...) so that no one ever sinks into that extreme solitude that sometimes arises around those who raise the question of homosexuality. Without shouting, but also without being silent".

"It is not good for man to be alone"(Gionata tent, March 2020) collects the contribution of: Gianni Geraci is Innocenzo Pontillo entitled “A people on the move" on the meaning of the path of LGBT believers in society and in the church in these forty years; Instead Gianni Geraci nor “The rules of the game. How to experience effective communication in our groups” addresses the topic of good practices that must guide relationships within these paths; the Jesuit father Pino Piva in “What signs and wonders!” offers a brief reflection on ”Pastoral care with LGBT people in Italy”; sister Fabrizia Giacobbe in “Meet and listen. Our experience with LGBT Christians and their parents” shows how a Christian community can evolve after encountering a reality of LGBT Christians and their parents; While Mara and Agostino is Goddess Santonico, Catholic parents with a gay son reflect on how the testimony in society and in the church "of Christian parents with LGBT children” be the bearer of change; In the end Gianni Geraci in the “Wounds that generate hope. Almost an afterword" tells the complex richness of the experience of groups of LGBT Christians and their parents in Italian society and Christian communities.

A little book that wants to be "an anthology of views on groups of Italian homosexual believers, which also touches the Christian parents of LGBT people and the pastoral workers who have agreed to walk with themor".

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SECOND EDITION expanded and updated – October 2022 (PDF files)

Second reprint with additions – August 2020 (PDF files)

FIRST EDITION – March 2020 (PDF files)

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IT IS NOT GOOD FOR MAN TO BE ALONE.The bet of groups of Christian homosexuals and their parents (second edition)

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