Press Release

BBC Visits Dignity/New York -   Gay Catholics' message to Pope Francis ahead of US visit

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.

Demand immediate removal of sanctions against LCWR leadership 

For Immediate Release: December 16, 2014

Organizational media contacts: See list below

For general background:  

Kate McElwee: (Rome)  +39 06 320 3331 kmcelwee@womensordination.org

December 11, 2014

Contact:  Ann Craig  Craignewyork @ gmail.com  

LGBT Black Christians and faith leaders join tens of thousands of historically Black congregations/denominations and allies to wear black to church on Sunday, December 14 in response to police brutality: “Black LGBT bodies must matter, too!”

Contacts:             Marianne Duddy-Burke, 617-669-7810

~~16 Catholic Organizations Call on Pope Francis to Apologize to U.S. Nuns; Launch Petition
 
Washington, DC - The Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), an umbrella group representing 80% of the 57,000 nuns in the United States, remains under scrutiny from the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF). 
 

~~DignityUSA, March 5, 2014.

LGBT Catholics Welcome Pastoral Tone and Substance

Contacts:

Marianne Duddy-Burke, 617-669-7810

Jeff Stone, 646-418-7039

For Immediate Release  6/24/13

National Contacts: Erin Saiz Hanna, ehanna@womensordination.org202.675.1006Sr.

Christine Schenk, chris@futurechurch.org216.513.3647

Boston Contacts: Nick Ingala Voice of the Faithful 617-291-3495 Cell, nickingala@votf.org