Who we are, what we do
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we are...Eve and Keith are gay Catholics who embrace Catholic teaching in full, and have spent decades mentoring gay people into deeper relationship with Christ and the Church. We founded Building Catholic Futures to equip Catholic institutions with the confidence to evangelize and catechize gay people of all ages.
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we equip youWe seek to equip Catholic institutions: through consulting, professional development, parish talks, and more, we share our research and experience with those responsible for forming others’ faith.
We instill confidence: where silence and fear push gay people and their loved ones away from the Church, we help you speak with bold honesty and inspiring orthodoxy.
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We help youWe help you evangelize: to receive gay people’s stories in a way that helps them see the story of Jesus.
We help you catechize: to discern the right way to connect Catholic doctrine with individuals’ unique situations.
We explore the spiritual journeys of gay people of all ages: the devout, the ambivalent, the wounded, and the curious; those who use identity labels and those who avoid them; those who are just beginning to form their ideas about how God sees them, and those who come to the Church with strong ideas already in place.
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to hear the beating of jesus' heart
BCF's logo was designed by Jamez Murck, with help from Gracie Morbitzer. The logo depicts an eagle nestled against a staff, held within a heart.
This image comes from a vision of St Gertrude the Great. On December 28, the feast of St John the Beloved, Gertrude had a vision in which John raised her up to lie beside him against the breast of Jesus. Feeling the beating of the Sacred Heart, Gertrude asked John if he had felt Jesus’ Heartbeat when he rested on the breast of his Lord at the Last Supper, and John, overflowing with ardent love, expressed the ecstasy he had experienced in that moment when he encountered the Word made Flesh.
The eagle is John’s symbol, the staff a symbol of Gertrude’s monastic vocation. The Heart is Christ’s. Two vocations (nun and apostle), representing the many vocations of those BCF forms for ministry. The Sacred Heart, representing the insistent pulse of Jesus' love for LGBT/SSA+ people, which they respond to with lives of discipleship.
As Gertrude shares her vision of John for generations to come, a man and a woman unite in
witness to our eternal destiny of communion with our Lord.
How could we choose anything else?
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