Recommended Readings

Rainbow Catholic Pastoral Care Guide  (created by Rainbow Catholics InterAgency Australia)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lKySoCGQybgdnNef8RtU-6SJotYHISpv0jwq_Bv8m1A/edit?tab=t.0


The Rainbow of God’s Creation – LGBTIQA+ Realities and Catholicism by Trish Hindmarsh (Australian book)

Building a Bridge by Fr. James Martin, SJ

Loving your child when they are different (PDF) – by the Australian GLBTQIA+ Multicultural Council

God and the Gay Christian by Matthew Vines

Gay and Catholic by Eve Tushnet

Undivided: Coming Out, Becoming Whole and Living Free from Shame by Vicky Beeching

Torn by Justin Lee

Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe by John Boswell

Walking the Bridgeless Canyon: Repairing the Breach Between the Church and the LGBT Community by Kathy Baldock

What is scapegoating? Why Gay Catholic priest James Alison spent years learning why people target minorities – an article published by the ABC

Reflections on a dear friend’s journey – by Bishop Tim Norton, then Auxiliary Bishop of Brisbane

Marriage Equality: A Positive Catholic Approach, by Francis DeBernardo 

John Shelby Spong, HarperSanFrancisco an Imprint of HarperCollins, 1996.

Living In Sin - A Bishop Rethinks Human Sexuality
John Shelby Spong, Harper & Row Publishers, 1988.

Jesus' Plan for a New World. The Sermon on the Mount
Richard Rhor, St Anthony Messenger Press, 1996.


Coming Out - An Act of Love
Rob Eichberg, Ph.D., Plume an Imprint of Penguin, 1991.


Confronting Power and Sex in the Catholic Church; Reclaiming the Spirit of Jesus
Bishop Geoffrey Robinson, John Garrett Publishing, 200G.


Believers. Does Australian Catholism Have a Future?
Paul Collins, UNSW Press, 2008.


Is the Homosexual My Neighbor? A Positivie Christian Response.
Letha Scanzoni and Virginia R. Mollenkott, Harper San Francisco, 1994.


Both Feet Firmly Planted in Midair: My Spiritual Journey
John McNeill, Westminster John Knox Press, 1998.