{"id":104,"date":"2017-10-16T08:11:22","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T07:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.supportpopefrancis.com\/?p=104"},"modified":"2018-11-29T13:51:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T18:51:23","slug":"petra-addresses-our-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.supportpopefrancis.com\/?p=104","title":{"rendered":"Petra addresses our church"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Petra Dankova<\/em> is a social worker with nine years of experience developing and leading projects for displaced women, men and children<\/span>. Petra Dankova is also a married lesbian Catholic woman living in Germany.\u00a0 Here is what she says in her homily today:<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n
My partner and I are asked all the time why do we stick with this Catholic Church? Isn’t it a horrible place to be a same-sex couple? Sometimes that’s true, and we cannot gloss over these moments, these parts of our experience with our church that may be painful.<\/h6>\n
But in the same way, we also cannot deny that a church is a life-giving place of beautiful encounters, of really transformative experiences. . .\u00a0I imagine that not only LGBTQ Catholics but many of us feel that sometimes the church is a place where we are well-fed and sometimes it’s a place where we go hungry. . . .<\/h6>\n

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Today’s post highlights a key portion of Petra Dankova’s homily, which you can watch in full by clicking here<\/a>. The readings for today are Isaiah 25:6-10a; Philippians 4:12-14, 19-20; Matthew 22:1-4, all of which you can find here<\/a>.\u00a0 (source<\/a>)<\/h5>\n
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nbsp; Petra Dankova is a social worker with nine years of experience developing and leading projects for displaced women, men and children. Petra Dankova is also a married lesbian Catholic woman living in Germany.\u00a0 Here is what she says in her homily today: My partner and I are asked all the time why do we … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supportpopefrancis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supportpopefrancis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supportpopefrancis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supportpopefrancis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supportpopefrancis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.supportpopefrancis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284,"href":"http:\/\/www.supportpopefrancis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supportpopefrancis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supportpopefrancis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supportpopefrancis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}