A version of this story appeared in the Higher Ground newsletter from The Washington Times. Click here to receive Higher Ground delivered directly to your inbox each Sunday. As Christians contemplate ...

A Jesuit priest and longtime advocate for LGBTQ+ Catholics outlined strategies to help expand outreach to LGBTQ+ people and reflected on progress at the highest levels of church leadership at a Feb. 4 ...

Father James Martin is among America’s most well-known Jesuit priests, from decades of appearances on Stephen Colbert’s shows to a series of best-selling books. He’s also been a prominent advocate for ...

How could someone be a human being and God at the same time? If we think that Jesus did not really suffer emotionally, physically and even spiritually on the cross, we may be less likely to turn to ...

Pope Francis has penned an introduction to the Italian version of a new book by Jesuit Father James Martin on the topic of Jesus’ healing of Lazarus, in which the pope wrote that Martin’s book serves ...

Jesuit Father James Martin, who will attend the first session of the Synod on Synodality as a participant appointed by Pope Francis, said that “without a doubt, there are many chaste and celibate gay ...

James Martin, SJ, with members of one of his tables at the Synod of Bishops, in the Paul VI Aula in Vatican City (photo courtesy of author). I never got over the excitement of walking into the Paul VI ...

Ignatius of Loyola's ""way of proceeding"" as lived by the Jesuits, the community of men he started in 1540, forms the basis of this spiritual handbook. Author Martin, a Jesuit for 20 years, claims ...

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Leo XIV met Monday with one of the most prominent advocates for greater LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Catholic Church and encouraged his ministry, just days before a planned Holy Year ...

Pope Leo XIV met in a private audience with Jesuit Father James Martin at the Vatican on Monday. Father Martin, who is in Rome to lead a Jubilee pilgrimage for his LGBTQ ministry, Outreach, also had ...

You would think that the reception of someone into full communion with the Catholic Church would be something we could all agree is an occasion of immense joy. Evidently not when that person is gay.