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Bishop Paprocki’s Policy on Same-Sex Marriage Is Mean-Spirited and Unchristian in the Extreme, say Activists.
“This is Why LGBTQI Catholics and Families Feel Unwelcome in Our Church.”
June 21, 2017. Boston, MA. Leaders of DignityUSA, the organization of Catholics committed to justice, equality and full inclusion of LGBTQI Catholics in the Church and society, decry the “Decree Regarding Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ and Related Pastoral Issues” recently promulgated by Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois. The Decree outlines policies for all Catholic institutions in the Diocese when dealing with people in same-sex marriages.
New Vatican Document Forbidding Gay Priests “Damaging,” Says Gay Catholic Group
The Vatican’s Congregation for the Clergy is releasing a new document (dated December 8, 2016) entitled “The Gift of the Priestly Vocation,” which is a set of guidelines for priestly formation. The document notes, “The Holy Father Francis has approved the present General Executive Decree and has ordered its publication.”
NOTRE DAME LGBT ALUMNI GROUP TO HOLD PILGRIMAGE IN NYC
MEDIA CONTACT: Jack Bergen 617-413-4059 Chair@GalaNDSMC.org
NOTRE DAME LGBT ALUMNI GROUP TO HOLD PILGRIMAGE IN NYC
Sunday October 2, 2016 11:00am ND Alum Greg Bourke, Plaintiff in SCOTUS Marriage Equality Decision, To Lead Walk Featured Speakers Include Notre Dame Graduate Phil Donahue ‘57
LGBT Catholics welcome statement of Pope Francis
Boston, MA. June 26, 2016--Leaders of DignityUSA, the organization of LGBTQ Catholics and allies committed to equality and justice for LGBTQ people, welcomed the statement of Pope Francis today that the Church must apologize to gay people and to other groups that it has let down or offended throughout history. The Pope’s comments echoed similar remarks made last week by one of his closest advisors, Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Germany.
Amoris Laetitia (The Joy of Love) Offers No Joy to LGBT Catholics, Families
April 8, 2016, Boston, MA. Pope Francis’ long-anticipated response to two sessions of a world-wide Synod on the Family, an Apostolic Exhortation entitled “Amoris Laetitia” (The Joy of Love), is a tremendous disappointment to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Catholics and their families, says DignityUSA, a leading organization of Catholics committed to LGBT equality.
AIDS: A Priest’s Testament
February 13, 2016 Dignity/New York sponsored the showing of the film AIDS: A Priest’s Testament at the LGBT Center in NYC where 50 people gathered for the event. Jeff Stone is shown introducting the main figure in the film, Fr. Bernárd Lynch.
LGBT Catholics Hail Supreme Court Decision to Make Marriage Equality the Law of the U.S.
Contact: Marianne Duddy-Burke, 617-668-7810
Boston, June 26, 2015. DignityUSA, the organization of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Catholics, cheered today’s Supreme Court’s sweeping decision that strikes down state bans on same-sex marriage, and makes marriage equality the law of the land throughout the U.S.
