Madrid, September 2025. The publisher Homo Legens announces the publication of same-sex attraction and the Catholic Church, the new work by Mike Schmitz, one of the most influential Catholic authors among young people in the US. Since it has reached No. 1 on iTunes. This book offers a Catholic response to same-sex attraction.
With a prologue by Jesús Sanz Montes, OFM, Archbishop of Oviedo, this 230-page volume presents to the reader a way to address this highly controversial topic from the position of the Catholic Church.
In a cultural context dominated by moral relativism and gender ideology, this work dares to pose questions that many prefer to silence: what does it really mean to be a man or a woman?, how to live sexuality when attraction does not follow God’s original plan?, can the Church accompany without renouncing the truth?
The book, now translated into Spanish, combines the author’s pastoral experience with a solid theological and anthropological reflection. In the face of the current confusion, Schmitz reminds us that the body and sexuality have an objective meaning and that the universal call to holiness also includes those who experience attraction to people of the same sex.
Without a doubt, this book will discomfort those who believe that every desire must become a right, but it will open paths of hope for those seeking to live the truth of love with authenticity.
With this publication, the publisher reaffirms its commitment to offering works that unapologetically defend the Christian vision of man and sexuality, and that invite cultural debate in a society in need of clarity.
The book is already available in bookstores and on the Homo Legens website, in paperback format (135 x 210mm), with a price of 16.90 €.
About the author: Michel T. Schmitz
(Chicago, USA, 1974), was ordained a priest in 2003 and is the director of the Youth and Young Adult Ministry of the Diocese of Duluth, as well as the chaplain of the Newman Center at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. He is the host of the popular podcasts The Bible in a Year and The Catechism in a Year. The first of them reached the top spot on iTunes and achieved more than a million downloads. Father Mike also offers weekly homilies on iTunes, Hallow, and bulldogcatholic.org.