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Catholic Gay Group to Honor Nun, Priest Silenced by the Vatican

Submitted by dignityusa on Tue, 05/15/2001 - 23:00

Washington, DC, May 16, 2001 — Leaders of DignityUSA, the nation's leading group of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered Catholics and their supporters, announced today that they will present Lifetime Achievement Awards to Sister Jeannine Gramick and Father Robert Nugent during the group's Fifteenth Biennial Convention this summer in Chicago.

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Gay Catholics Decry Vatican Silencing of Priest and Nun Who Pioneered Gay Ministry

Submitted by dignityusa on Sun, 05/28/2000 - 23:00

May 29, 2000 — During meetings in Rome last week, Sister Jeannine Gramick, a School Sister of Notre Dame, and Rev. Robert Nugent, a Salvatorian priest, were ordered to stop speaking publicly about homosexuality, or about the investigation into their nearly thirty-year ministry. In July of 1999, the Vatican had ordered the two to refrain from any kind of pastoral ministry with gay and lesbian people or their families.

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DignityUSA Takes Action in Response to Silencing of Sister Jeannine Gramick and Father Robert Nugent.

"I choose not to collaborate in my own oppression by restricting a basic human right. To me this is a matter of conscience."

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Gay Catholics Dismayed and Angry at Vatican Authorities

Submitted by dignityusa on Mon, 07/12/1999 - 23:00

Washington, DC - July 13, 1999 - DignityUSA is dismayed and angry at the decision of Vatican authorities to "permanently prohibit from any pastoral work involving homosexual persons" Sister Jeanine Gramick and Father Robert Nugent co-founders of New Ways Ministry.

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Cardinal Ratzinger's Notification on Gramick and Nugent

Released by the Vatican on July 13, 1999

 

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