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Pope Leo appoints new Oregon bishop who helped draft LGBT pastoral guidelines in Iowa

While Bishop-designate Thomas Hennen once described homosexual acts as ‘disordered,’ he later helped draft pastoral LGBTQ guidelines that fail to mention the call to live chastely.

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Emily Mangiaracina

• Jul 10, 2025

Catholics kneel by riverbank as Blessed Sacrament arrives for Eucharistic pilgrimage

Hundreds of Catholics waited prayerfully in Iowa to welcome the Holy Eucharist to Dubuque as part of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage.

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Clare Marie Merkowsky

• May 27, 2025

Iowa bishop’s LGBT guidelines could allow students to compete on sports teams of opposite sex

Bishop Thomas Zinkula’s guidelines fail to reference Catholic teaching on gender and sexuality, and the bishop gave evasive answers when asked whether they allow for practices that affirm a student’s gender confusion.

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Emily Mangiaracina

• Oct 16, 2023Oct 17, 2023

Iowa diocese publishes deacon’s pro-LGBT story about gender-confused son ‘Lexi’

The deacon cited his formation in the diaconate as having provided him with some of the principles that led him to accept his son’s lifestyle.

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Nick Marmalejo

• Jan 3, 2022Jan 3, 2022

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Pope Leo appoints new Oregon bishop who helped draft LGBT pastoral guidelines in Iowa

Catholics kneel by riverbank as Blessed Sacrament arrives for Eucharistic pilgrimage

Iowa bishop’s LGBT guidelines could allow students to compete on sports teams of opposite sex

Iowa diocese publishes deacon’s pro-LGBT story about gender-confused son ‘Lexi’