News Archive (2010)

Members and supporters of Dignity/San Antonio held a prayer vigil outside the Cathedral Saturday, November 20, in advance of the installation of the new Archbishop. Nearly 100 people gathered to express sadness over the Chapter's expulsion from the parish where they hade been meeting, and to call for dialogue with the incoming Archbishop. A local TV station's coverage demonstrates support from those worshiping inside the Cathedral.

Executive Director of DignityUSA, Marianne Duddy-Burke, is quoted several times in this article. She is incorrectly listed as Executive Director of Equally Blessed.  A sample of the article reads:

Particularly on Catholic campuses, gay students live and pursue their education in the midst of an intensifying Catholic debate over homosexuality. Acceptance of traditional church teaching that homosexual inclinations are disordered, and that same-sex marriage violates natural law, is decreasing among Catholics overall. Support for gay marriage among Catholics has now grown to 45 percent, according to the Pew Research Center.  

October 22, 2010-Boston, MA.--DignityUSA, the nation's largest organization of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Catholics and our supporters, is shocked and saddened by the actions of San Antonio Auxiliary Bishop Oscar Cantu, who ordered a local parish to stop hosting a weekly Mass for gay and transgender Catholics and their families. The letter, dated October 13, 2010, ordered the liturgies to end as of October 18, 2010.

October 6, 2010--Equally Blessed stands with Minnesota Catholics who are taking their support for equality into Mass by wearing a rainbow ribbon or pin. About two dozen people who wore these symbols to a Mass recently celebrated by Archbishop John C. Nienstedt were denied Communion by the Archbishop.