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LOS ANGEL DODGERS REMOVE GAY ‘NUN’ GROUP OM PRI NIGHT
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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. “The reason that we really manift is to shed light on the hypocrisy of all anized relign, and the way that people terpret the teachgs, the word, and e as a weapon to jtify their own homophobia, their own transphobia, their own hate.
(The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence)Members of the ternatnal activist group Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence oversee the GAYme game show durg RuPl’s DragCon at the Los Angel Conventn Center, May 7, 2016, Los Angel, California.
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If the people paid as much attentn to poverty, there would be no homelsns Los are angry at me bee I’ve st them as gay bashers, a stance that’s easy to fend. ” But the Archdce of Los Angel neverthels ns the Catholic Mistry Wh Lbian and Gay Persons, which ns support groups and offers speakers to schools and parish who “t[e] and dialogu[e] about clivy and acceptance.
”I was cur to hear om gay Catholics who are sidg wh Gomez and hont-to-goodns homophob on an issue — drag — that’s such a big part of queer culture. ”I followed up wh De Carnas to ask how he renciled beg a fahful Catholic wh belongg to a church where even Pope Francis, for all his tolerance, has lled homosexualy a s. Sister Jeanne illtrat this ncept wh a story om Sister Mary Zollman, BVM, who scribed havg a discsn wh a bishop about homosexualy where she was told that the phrase “trsilly disorred” to scribe homosexualy me om the natural law.
In my heart’s eye, I saw fac of men and women I know whose sexual orientatn is gay or lbian and who live passnately, jtly yearng for a return of passn and jtice on the part of a church they love.
The Catholic Church is an almost unique stutn — shunng homosexualy but havg so many gay men s ranks, wr Andrew Sullivan. The Vatin’s failure to reckon wh their sexualy has created a crisis for Catholicism. * gay pride nuns *
“Do you believe that the Los Angel Dodgers are beg ‘clive and welg to everyone’ by givg an award to a group of gay and transgenr drag performers that tentnally mocks and gras Christians—and not only Christians, but nuns, who vote their liv to servg others? I had been vaguely aware of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence for a number of years, ially bee of a spat between the group and the gay Catholic wrer Andrew Sullivan.
Acrdg to a prs release rponse to the Dodgers ntroversy om the San Francis branch of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, the anizatn was found “ rponse to the AIDS crisis, when gay men, who their fahs and fai had abandoned bee of their orientatn, were sick and dyg. -affirmg spac an stutn that n regularly feel unwelg to the activismBut one member of the Sisters said the goal is to get people thkg about how they e relign to jtify homophobia.
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