The conference “Justice & Mercy Shall Kiss: LGBT Catholics in the Age of Pope Francis” will take place April 28-30 at the Hilton Rosemont Chicago O’Hare Hotel.

New Ways Ministry is sponsoring the event.

Some of the plenary and focus session leaders will include Sexual Minorities Uganda Executive Director Frank Mugisha; Leslie C. Griffin, the William S. Boyd Professor of Law at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas; Bishop John Stowe of the Diocese of Lexington, Kentucky; Cristina Traina, a professor of religious studies at Northwestern University; and Rev. Warren Hall, a gay priest who was removed from his position as director of campus ministry at Seton Hall University because of his support of LGBT equality.

See NewWaysMinistry.org.