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
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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. They emerged as a chary anizatn when one of their 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. “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. My iend was gay, and nothg I uld do uld change that.