I didn’t set out to find a hidden history, but I’ve been doing a lot of research lately on LGBTQ+ history within the Catholic Church, and I keep ending up in places I didn’t expect. While official Catholic teachings have often drawn boundaries around questions of sexuality, gender, and relationships, the historical record tells a much more complicated story.The deeper you look into the Church’s past, the harder it becomes to tell the story of Catholicism without also acknowle

I’ve been moving through something like an inheritance I did not know I was still carrying, part heritage, part grief, part return. Not belief exactly, but something closer to recognition forming over time through place, ritual, and memory. My grandpa, Philip Oliver Correro, passed in March 2024. My Grammy, Dr. Carole Ann Lax Stewart, followed in July 2025. In the wake of those losses, grief did not arrive as a single absence, but something layered. It moved backward as much