After an unusually long gap between Masses, last night’s gathering at Farm Street demonstrated that the Soho Masses Community is unquestionably alive and kicking – and ready a new, expansionary phase (just as the previous move from St Anne’s to…
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What Are YOU Doing, to Promote LGBT Ministry?
Ripples in the pond of LGBT Ministry A well – known story about how Sr Jeannine Gramick came to found New Ways Ministry, tells of how she was once chatting with a young gay friend, who asked here “What is…
The Catholic Victory for Marriage Equality (Maryland edition)
As Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley signs the state’s marriage equality bill into law today, let us reflect on the important role played by Catholics in achieving it, just as New York Catholics were key to the victory there, last year.…
“We Are the Church”: Sr Jeannine Gramick
“I think the best way we convey how we believe is not words; it’s the way we act,” Sr Gramick told students at Columbia Collegege Chicago April 1. Gramick said lay Catholics are far ahead of Catholic leaders on gay issues.…
The Catholic Push For Maryland Equality
Catholics have been prominent in the Maryland push for marriage equality – on both sides of the divide. Delegate Heather Mizeur is a Catholic lesbian who married her spouse, Deborah, five years ago – and is a lead sponsor of the legislation…
“Gradualism” in Benedict’s Theology.
Amidst a flood of commentary on Benedict’s observations on condoms, one of the pieces that I have found most useful is by my friend Martin Pendergast, writing at the Guardian. Martin reflects on the broader character and style of Pope…
Sr Jeannine Grammick in Dallas, on Ratzinger: “Not that order of teaching”.
Sr Jeannine Gramick has been working tirelessly for LGBT ministry in the Catholic Church since 1971, when a young man asked here in a now famous conversation, “Sister, what is the Catholic Church doing for gays and lesbians?”. Realizing that…
Combating Bigotry, A Cause for Sainthood: Brooklyn Diocese
At a special church service on Thursday night, Bishop Nicholas A. Di Marzio of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn opened what is known as a “canonical inquiry” into the cause of sainthood for a Brooklyn priest, Msgr. Bernard J.…
Lesbian Family’s School Exclusion: Jeannine Gramick in Boulder
Two Catholic schools have been in the news for excluding the children of lesbian parents. In Massachusetts, the situation was defused when the Church made clear that exclusion was not diocesan policy, and promised to accommodate the child in another…
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New Ways Ministry began when a young man asked Sr Jeannine Gramick “What is the Church doing for my gay brothers and sisters? What are you doing, sister?” Sr Grammick thought, and did something. New Ways continues to “do something”. …
