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• CATHOLIC LGBT HISTORY: GAY-FRIENDLY CATHOLIC PARISH LIST IS PUBLISHED
• U.S. HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVIST WEBSE PROVIS LIST OF 'GAY FRIENDLY' CATHOLIC PARISH
• GAY COUPLE PREACH TO CHIGO CATHOLIC PARISH ON FATHER’S DAY
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• NEW WAYS MISTRY LIST LLECTS GAY-IENDLY PARISH

CATHOLIC LGBT HISTORY: GAY-FRIENDLY CATHOLIC PARISH LIST IS PUBLISHED

Digny/Chigo is a chapter of Digny/USA, and shar s missn to work for rpect and jtice for all gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr persons the Catholic Church and the world. Twenty years ago this month, New Ways Mistry published s first list of “Gay-Friendly Parish, ” Catholic fah muni that had begun the procs of beg welg of gay and lbian people. “To be listed, parish mt wele gay Catholics a public way, via a bullet announcement or a project or support group that v gay Catholics and their fai to participate.

I uld jo another … sect of Christiany that is more like ‘rah, rah, rabows and unirns, go gay, ’ but that’s not who I am and that’s not why I have the fah that I have, ” Zieman said. Bernard was a pragmatic centrist who found a middle ground wh the Church hierarchy on gay issu, said Michael O’Loughl, thor of “Hidn Mercy: AIDS, Catholics, and the Untold Stori of Compassn the Face of Fear. Bernard was steadfast his support for Chigo’s gay muny, particularly durg the AIDS crisis, said Joe Vek, director of muny outreach at Archdce Gay and Lbian the archbishop’s relatnship wh queer people was more plex.

U.S. HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVIST WEBSE PROVIS LIST OF 'GAY FRIENDLY' CATHOLIC PARISH

Rick Garcia, then executive director of the Catholic Advote for Lbian and Gay Rights, wrote a 1987 Tribune op-ed that the archdce failed to provi meangful outreach to those sufferg. Clement’s and some other parish around the untry was they were willg to engage mistry wh a muny that was so margalized and the topic of homosexualy was so taboo the church, ” he said.

MissnDigny/Chigo is a chapter of Digny/USA, and shar s missn to work for rpect and jtice for all gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr persons the Catholic Church and the As pennt anizatns created to support LGBT Catholics and our fai and iends, DignyUSA and Digny/Chigo envisn and work for a time when LGBTQI Catholics are affirmed and experience digny through the tegratn of their spirualy wh their sexualy, and, as beloved persons of God, participate fully all aspects of life wh the Church and Society. BeliefsWe are all ma God’s image and that God rejoic our diversy: man or woman, straight or gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr or relatnships, cludg marriage, are a gift om God, and not somethg to be supprsed or be kept the closetPeople of all genrs, genr inti, and sexual orientatns are lled to serve and to lead the ChurchThat we are Catholics by Baptism and by God’s will, and no one n ny our place as God’s childrenBoardSteve Forst, printMart Grochala, vice printMary Donnelly, secretaryAl Pezzo, treasurerRon Alfano, at largeMichael Hogan, at large. It played host to the natnal nventn of DignyUSA 1977, was a charter member of Call to Actn, an umbrella anizatn for progrsive Catholic groups, and -sponsored the Orange Ball, a Chigo benef to raise funds to bat Ana Bryant-backed anti-gay referendums around the 1980’s were challengg for Digny/Chigo as the chapter grew to over 150 members.

GAY COUPLE PREACH TO CHIGO CATHOLIC PARISH ON FATHER’S DAY

Sebastian Church and all church property rather than subm to a mand om Cardal Joseph Bernard to whdraw Digny’s public statement affirmg homosexualy which said “we believe that gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr persons n exprs their sexualy a manner that is nsonant wh Christ’s teachg. Sebastian’s Digny/Chigo began meetg a seri of welg Prottant church before settlg at Broadway Uned Methodist the 1990s Digny/Chigo reasserted s role as a Roman Catholic fah muny misterg the needs of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people.

In the summer of 2001, Chigo aga hosted the DignyUSA, we are the third longt-servg DignyUSA chapter ntug our work for rpect and jtice for all gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, queer and tersex persons the Catholic Church and the world and misterg through tn, advocy and worship. At a rapidly growg number of proudly “gay-iendly” parish, same-sex upl who flout the Church’s teachg on the immoraly of homosexual acts are exercisg learship rol and receivg Communn wh enuragement om their pastors. However, a mon thread seems to n through all of them: the persistent unwillgns of the dcan thory to enter to nflict wh a powerful and aggrsive homosexual movement.

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Sce the 1970s when certa Amerin and Canadian parish beme known as “gay-iendly, ” and wayward clergy and lay began “non-judgmental” homosexual outreach mistri such as “New Ways” and “Digny USA, ” the number of parish that tolerate or accept homosexual behavr has ballooned to clu parish most of the dc of the Uned Stat. Although New Ways Mistri has been repeatedly nmned by the Catholic hierarchy, currently lists about 240 parish 165 ci and towns that nform to s “gay-iendly” standards.

They participate homosexual pri paras which same-sex acts are ndoned and even engaged , and celebrate Mass memoratg the paras and other events of importance to the “gay” subculture. What appears to be absent such parish is any mentn of the Catholic Church’s doctre regardg the natural purpose of human sexualy and the trsic evil of homosexual acts. Instead of guidg those wh “same-sex attractn” to a life of celibacy and addrsg psychologil problems, homosexuals are told that their impuls stem om their very nature, that they were created by God as homosexuals and that the “gay” ethos is part of their inty.

NEW WAYS MISTRY LIST LLECTS GAY-IENDLY PARISH

At San Francis’s Most Holy Reemer parish, which is suated the predomantly homosexual Castro district, the gay subculture has received open support sce the 1970s by pastors and parishners.

Unr the guidance of “gay iendly” learship, the parish openly subverts Catholic teachg on human sexualy, participatg paras that celebrate the homosexual liftyle, memoratg anniversari of same-sex unns, and matag a library of books fendg and celebratg same-sex sodomy. In the Archdce of Los Angel, where New Ways lists no ls than 10 “gay-iendly” parish, a homosexual uple was recently permted to brg up the gifts durg the offertory re of a natnally-televised Mass prid over by Archbishop José Gomez.

The event was the culmatn of years of operatn the homosexual subculture on the part of the archdce, cludg active participatn “gay pri” events by s “Catholic Mistry wh Gay and Lbian Persons.