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Below are a number of resources where you can learn more about DignityUSA and the subject of religion as it relates to gays, lesbians, bisexuals & transgenders. For more information, please contact DignityUSA at info@dignityusa.org.
DignityUSA ResourcesCatholic Organizations for Renewal (COR)Online ResourcesCatholic Doctrine |
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DignityUSA Resources
Ex-Gay and Reparative Therapy from Two Perspectives: Faith-Based and Scientific
Issues and Resources
for GLBT Survivors of Sexual Abuse by Roman Catholic Clergy
“The Call to Wed: Why Catholics Should Celebrate Same Sex Marriage” by
Patricia Beattie Jung
DignityUSA Resolution on Same-Sex Marriage
DignityUSA News Service – Learn how to join more than 700 subscribers to Dignity's membership emails and press releases.
List Services – Information about subscribing to discussion lists
Couples’ Ministry Resource Guide
How to Start a Dignity Chapter in Your Community
DignityUSA and Youth – “I'm young and I think I might be gay!”
DignityUSA Archives – DignityUSA's long and proud history, including historic documents.
Sexual Ethics: Experience, Growth, and Challenge – A Pastoral Reflection for Lesbian and Gay Catholics, prepared by the DignityUSA Task Force on Sexual Ethics, 1989
Catholic Organizations for Renewal (COR)
A joint statement of member organizations of COR concerning the sexual abuse policy of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops:
A Church Worthy of Our Children (Nov. 1, 2002)
Healing and Hope: Analysis of a Crisis (April 26, 2002)
Online Resources
Ex-Gay and Reparative Therapy from Two Perspectives: Faith-Based and Scientific
Homosexuality as an "Objective Disorder" by John McNeill
Links to Other Sites – Catholic reform-minded organizations in the USA and abroad, and other sites of interest
Homosexually Oriented Candidates for the Priesthood (Statement of the National Federation of Priests' Councils, Feb. 2003)
Notre Dame gay alumni, Phil Donahue honor Fr. Mychal Judge (NCR, Oct. 18, 2002)
Recommended Reading – Books about religion and homosexuality
A Pope for the Time to Come – 140 countries’ 1998 petition for a Catholic Church that is led by a “discipleship of equals”
Catholic Doctrine
- Original draft of the US Catholic Bishops’ 1997 Pastoral Message
- DignityUSA's response
- Link to final document, as approved by the Vatican
- Siempre Serán Nuestros Hijos (en español…)
Considerations Regarding Proposals to Give Legal Recognition to Unions Between Homosexual Persons (7/30/03 statement on same-sex marriage)
Current Catholic Catechism statements on the topic of homosexuality
Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons – Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
- Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger's October 1986 Letter instructing bishops to withdraw support from groups whose teaching on homosexuality differs from that of the Church
- DignityUSA's response to the Vatican's letter — approved by the DignityUSA House of Delegates in Miami, July 1987
- DignityUSA's Declaration of Non-Reception of the Pastoral Letter on the Care of Homosexual Persons, July 1987
Pastoral Letter on Homosexuality by Bishop Thomas Daily of Brooklyn, 1993
Persona Humana: Declaration on Certain Questions Concerning Sexual Ethics, Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, December 1975
Some Considerations Concerning the Response to Legislative Proposals on the Non-Discrimination of Homosexual Persons – Revised statement issued by the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, 1992
Vatican document on homosexuals and seminaries, 2005
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