Parish Leadership series

Contemporary Topics in Parish Leadership is a series that addresses timely realities in parish leadership. Written primarily for parish staff, leadership teams, and parish councils, each topic affirms the pastoral realities facing today’s church leaders in a way that is engaging, relevant, and most important, accessible.

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New Ways and Next Steps Developing Parish LGBTQ+ Ministry

Francis DeBernardo

New Ways and Next Steps is designed to help pastoral ministers develop LGBTQ+ ministry in their local parishes. Whether a parish is just initiating a ministry or already has one that needs fresh ideas, Francis DeBernardo brings pastoral ministers on a journey of discernment to help them discover the best path LGBTQ+ ministry should take in their local communities.

New Ways And Next Steps

Francis DeBernardo has served since 1996 as executive director of New Ways Ministry, a national Catholic ministry of justice and reconciliation for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Catholics and the wider church community. He is the author of Mychal Judge: Take Me Where You Want Me to Go published by Liturgical Press.

978-0-8146-6860-3

Paperback, 160 pp., 5 x 7, $16.95 e eBook

Available September 2023

“Francis DeBernardo offers a wonderfully broad and eminently practical guide to the complex topic of ministry with and to the LGBTQ community within the Church. Every parish that wishes to fulfill its evangelization and pastoral goals should study and implement the contents of this book.”

Bishop John Stowe, OFM Conv Diocese of Lexington, Kentucky

“Frank DeBernardo mines the riches of the church’s genuine—if sometimes ambivalent—affirmation of queer Catholics to help readers create ministries of welcome in their own parishes. Follow his path to a dynamic pastoral plan!”

Cristina L.H.

Traina,

Fordham University

978-0-8146-6783-5

Paperback, 128 pp., 5½ x 8½

1-4 copies $16.95 each

5-14 copies $13.95 net each

15 or more copies $10.95 net each e eBook