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DignityUSA Executive Director to Give Homily at Call To Action Conference
October 9, 2013
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DignityUSA
Executive Director Marie DuddyBurke has been invited to deliver the homily at the Call To Action conference in Milwaukee WisconsinThe conference brings together over people each fall and is the largest ual gathering of progressive Catholics in the US
Sharing the Light
October 9, 2013
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DignityUSA
I am thinking of a memory from more than years ago I was attending Mass at my local Newman Center The parish had the practice of including women in the rotation of preachers Marie was preaching this particular day I always found her reflections to be
Dignity/Seattle News
October 9, 2013
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DignityUSA
I find it extraordinarily refreshing that Pope Francis has articulated and emphasized the corevaluesof the Catholic faith service to the poor and marginalizedthat acknowledges the divinity in allindividualsby deemphasizing the rigid dogma that has pu
Dignity/Philadelphia News
October 9, 2013
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DignityUSA
DignityPhiladelphia tries to maintain its usual level of activity not only within the chapter but also within the LGBT Community Some of our recent activities includedWe attended Gay Community Day at the Camden Riversharks (minor league baseball tea
Join Dignity/Washington for an Outstanding Special Event in D.C.
October 9, 2013
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DignityUSA
Saturday Hunter OrsquoHanian Director of the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay amp Lesbian Art will be making a special PowerPoint presentation WHAT IS GAY ART? featuring samples from the Leslie Lohman Museumrsquos permanent collectionThis presentation wi
Dignity/Washingtons Book Club Celebrates 10th Anniversary
October 9, 2013
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DignityUSA
DignityWashingtonrsquos Dignity Center buzzes with activities many evenings throughout the year but it wasnrsquot always that way In the early s Stephen McDonnell an active chapter member and presider was the driving force behind a new activity that
La Frontera: Notes From a Convention Workshop
October 7, 2013
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DignityUSA
By Delfin Bautista Editorrsquos Delfin led a workshop entitled Deconstructing and Reconstructing Gender Creating a Catholic Transgender Narrative Below are the s from which Delfin spoke reprinted here as poetryFor the lesbian of color the ultima
Holy Tears
October 7, 2013
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DignityUSA
By Greg Wadsworth DignityBuffaloIt is not widely known that Dignity Conventions are filled with weeping I have always been reticent to discuss the rampant crying at the Convention out of fear it will be misunderstood Western cultures have a very old
Reflections on Plenary Address: Claiming Our Catholic Social Justice Traditions Maureen Fielder SL and James Nickoloff
October 7, 2013
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DignityUSA
By James Nickolof Associate Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies College of the Holy CrossI was pleased to see that both Maureen Fiedler and the Dignity Convention itself began with the theme of gratitude for the gifts of many persons and for Gods