EnCourage Resources

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EnCourage Resources

For families and friends of people who experience same-sex attractions and/or gender discordance

Featured EnCourage Resources

“In a Fallen World, One Voice Is Not Heard”

How Parents Should Respond to a Child “Coming Out”

Catechesis on Homosexuality: Making the Distinctions

Approaching Homosexuality With ‘True Compassion,’ Not ‘Sentimentality’

Church Documents

Selected Quotations from Documents of the Popes and Members of the Roman Curia On the Subject of “Gender Theory”

Excerpts from the Catechism of the Catholic Church

Father Check from Courage Responds to Synod Report

Ministry to Persons with a Homosexual Inclination: Guidelines for Pastoral Care

Testimonies

EnCourage Testimonial

Homosexuality, Gender, and Hope

Conference Testimonies

Desire of the Everlasting Hills Documentary

Testimony: Gary H.

Prayer & Spirituality

Friendship Novena

Spiritual Friendship

Spiritual Friendship: Bond of Christian Charity – Seven Principles of Authentic Christian Friendship

Be My Guest: Hudson Byblow on Same Sex Attraction, Holy Friendships, and Healing from Pornography

Forgiveness

Forgiveness From the Heart: Path to Interior Freedom and Peace

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