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Cardinal McElroy Meets with Dignity Washington
Dignity Washington was honored to welcome Robert Cardinal McElroy as their guest at the Dignity Center on May 12.
Midterm Report from Synod on the Family Unexpectedly Positive for LGBT People Families
October 13, 2014
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DignityUSA
Acknowledges Gifts and Qualitiesrdquo of Gay PeopleBoston MA the organization of LGBT Catholics and allies says that the midterm report from the Vaticanrsquos Extraordinary Synod on the Family offers unexpected positive signsrdquo for LGBT
One Church Two Synodal Gatherings
October 4, 2014
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DignityUSA
As this issue of Dateline goes to press in two cities more than miles from each other flights will be landing hotels will be checked into local hosts will undergo a final flurry of preparations as Church leaders gather to pray deliberate and work for
Remembrance of Deenie Dudley
October 4, 2014
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DignityUSA
by Kathy HealyDeenie Dudley one of the Foremothers of Dignity died suddenly on following an emergency surgery for anaortic aneurysm Deenie was A few dear friends were with her as she passed peacefully She died as she had lived on her own terms makin
Terror
October 4, 2014
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DignityUSA
by Jim Smith Associate Director It only takes a split second for me to recall the terror I felt nearly every day of my teenage years What terror? Quick guessYep the terror of being known by my peers as a fagrdquoAre those days of terror over for
An Open Letter to the Members of St. Leo the Great Parish Lewiston Montana
September 19, 2014
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DignityUSA
The Body of Christ in your parish has suffered a great wound The removal of Paul Huff and Tom Wojtowick from their parish ministry roles because they got married has torn your community and put you on the front lines of the struggles for justice in o
The Authors: James and Evelyn Whitehead
September 15, 2014
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DignityUSA
Evelyn Eaton Whitehead is a developmental psychologist (PhD University of Chicago) whose work focuses on spiritual development in adult life James D Whitehead is a theologian (PhD Harvard University) who studies the interplay of religion and culture
Forsaking the Normal: Biblical Tales of Transformation
September 15, 2014
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DignityUSA
We go to the Christian Scriptures for guidance in our moral lives What are the norms we should follow? In search of the normal we instead find the Bible telling endless stories about paradox reversals of fortune and transformation Yet convinced that
Trans Information
September 15, 2014
by
DignityUSA
Approximately onepercent of persons experience themselves as genderdiverse that is as not conforming to traditional categories of exclusively masculine or feminine This be so small a percent as to be irrelevant what has this to do with me?rdquo
Graceful Bodies and the Play of Gender
September 15, 2014
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DignityUSA
It is you who formed my inmost parts You knit me together in my motherrsquos womb I praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made (Psalm )<blockquoteCatholics of an earlier generation were taught that as infants we begin life alrea
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