Press Release

AIDS: A Priest’s Testament

Jeff Stone introduction of the main figure in the film, Fr. Bernárd Lynch

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.

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LGBT Catholics welcome Pope Francis to the White House

Marianne Duddy-Burke to greet Pope Francis

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

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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.

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Catholic Groups Applaud Vatican Report as "First Step" in Reconciling with U.S. Sisters

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

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Black LGBT Religious Leaders Act with Historically Black Churches: “Black Bodies Matter”

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!”

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LGBT Catholics Say New Vatican Document is “inadequate and alienating,” call for “official input” into Synod on the Family

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

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Catholic Women: "Our Absence Means Synod Lacks Credibility"

For Immediate Release: October 23, 2014

Contacts: Erin Saiz Hanna, 401-588-0457

Marianne Duddy-Burke, 617-669-7810

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Pope Francis:Support U.S. Nuns & Remove the Unjust Mandate Against LCWR

~~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).