A nun, a gay Catholic on the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence - Los Angel Tim

Contents:

• LETTERS TO THE EDOR: A NUN, A GAY CATHOLIC AND OTHER CHRISTIANS ON THE SISTERS OF PERPETUAL INDULGENCE
• 80 PERCENT OF PRITS THE VATIN ARE GAY: NEW BOOK
• ‘IT IS NOT A CLOSET. IT IS A CAGE.’ GAY CATHOLIC PRITS SPEAK OUT
• GAY PRITS, SECRET RUL AND THE ABE OF NUNS: SOME OF THE VATIN CONTROVERSI AS BISHOPS MEET

LETTERS TO THE EDOR: A NUN, A GAY CATHOLIC AND OTHER CHRISTIANS ON THE SISTERS OF PERPETUAL INDULGENCE

For this reason, homosexual acts are nsired a s and people wh homosexual tennci are emed “trsilly disorred. Sister Mary Kay Hunyady, of the Relig of the Sacred Heart of J, told RNS she also stggled wh the Catholic Church’s posn on homosexualy, pecially as she worked on a dissertatn on LGBTQ relig sisters.

” on the subject of homosexual prits, to his public acts and words of chary toward the LGBTQ muny, Francis is attemptg to “crack open that door and let the light , ” the sisters said. As a gay Catholic man, I do not agree wh the group’s disrpectful and hurtful humor.

The anizatn, scribed on s webse as a “leadg-edge Orr of queer and trans nuns, ” emerged as a chary anizatn when one of s early events at Metropolan Communy Church raised $1, 500 for gay Cuban refuge 1980. Regard as “nuns for the gay muny, ” the Sisters are not Catholic nuns, nor officially affiliated wh any specific relig anizatn. She also cricized the Catholic League’s Bill Donohue, who, as she noted, “released a statement sayg the Dodgers’ cisn to honor the group was ‘anti-Catholic hate speech, '” addg that he “has also been quoted as sayg homosexualy was unnatural and makg ignorant remarks about people dyg of AIDS.

80 PERCENT OF PRITS THE VATIN ARE GAY: NEW BOOK

She views the issue of same-sex relatns as one of jtice and adds that “clivy is always an issue” — not only the matter of treatg gays wh digny. She uld see openly gay and transgenr women disposed toward livg celibate liv accepted most relig orrs today. But 2003, the church stcted Catholic policians to actively oppose laws regnizg gay unns, llg those seekg them “praved.

I wrote him a private letter challengg his homophobia by scribg my relatnship wh my betiful Peg. He said he’d felt isolated as a gay Catholic and wept at my letter a newspaper, which ma him feel ls alone. Feri and Isabel were Francisn nuns when they met and fell love, and have both sce renounced their votn and spoken out agast the church’s posn agast homosexualy.

The urtship and civil unn about one year after a Vatin official, Krzysztof Charamsa, publicly abandoned the church after announcg that he was gay and love. The uple are also due to participate a relig service by their iend, Barbero, a former prit who was spend bee of his support of gay marriage. Ireland and the Church has been subject to many sex sndals sce the early 1990s but appears that when to members of our clergy and our nvents beg gay, (or straight for that matter) well, then all hats, or soutan, are off.

‘IT IS NOT A CLOSET. IT IS A CAGE.’ GAY CATHOLIC PRITS SPEAK OUT

Immediately upon s release, a text acknowledgg that nuns also have sexual hibns, and gay on at that, was nsired so heo that the Irish ctoms thori seized 1, 500 pi on s arrival to the island.

Dpe major chang to public attus sce 1985 wir Irish society, however, homosexualy is still clearly viewed as a problem by the church. Lookg at Late Late cint and the Maynooth story tanm highlights that the church’s attu to homosexualy has not changed but at least Ireland’s Catholic ele have not yet scend on St.

My iend was gay, and nothg I uld do uld change that.

GAY PRITS, SECRET RUL AND THE ABE OF NUNS: SOME OF THE VATIN CONTROVERSI AS BISHOPS MEET

In 1986, the Vatin released a letter nmng homosexualy wh what The New York Tim lled a “poted alln to AIDS. Even as the ath toll rose, the Roman Catholic Church rerced s stance and also opposed the gay and lbian rights movement more generally, creatg an ongog tensn.