A retired nun believ the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence perform Christ-like servic, while a gay Catholic fds the Sisters' actns offensive.
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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. Partridge lled that notn pletely false, notg the group’s origs durg the AIDS crisis to provi money, re and safer-sex rmatn to primarily gay men who had been otherwise outst by much of society, cludg relig lears. As more gay men migrated to the cy throughout the 1970s, this spir met a queer artistic sensibily that ed drag and non-tradnal spirualy to affirm queer liv while rejectg the anti-LGBTQ+ genr nformy of the newly emergg Christian “moral majory.
The Sister’s earlit activist actns clud publicly performg a “Rosary Time of Nuclear Peril” rponse to the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster, chasg hate-mongerg Christians out of San Francis’s Castro gay district, holdg a bgo and dis benef for gay Cuban refuge, and fundraisg for the first-ever Gay Olympics. ” The efforts gaed the Sisters greater regnn the gay prs and the lol gay muny. This irreverent humor has clud several public mock exorcisms of anti-LGBTQ+ figur like anti-femist Phyllis Schlafly, Catholic Pope John Pl II, and homophobic rad show host Lra Schlsger.