Press Release

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

April 9, 2013

Gay Long Island Man Ousted from Church Involvement to Deliver Over 18,000 Signatures to Diocese

Stripped of all parish involvement by the Diocese of Rockville Center after marriage, Nicholas Coppola Requests reinstatement to all volunteer positions