Gay Catholics and Christians Church

Contents:

• CATHOLIC LGBT HISTORY: GAY-FRIENDLY CATHOLIC PARISH LIST IS PUBLISHED
• U.S. HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVIST WEBSE PROVIS LIST OF 'GAY FRIENDLY' CATHOLIC PARISH
• WE WELE AND CELEBRATE THE GIFTS OF OUR GAY BROTHERS AND SISTERS.
• GAY FRIENDLY CHURCH ORANGE COUNTY
• GAY MARSEILLE

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

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.

Also clud that list were seven lleg whose Catholic stunt muni were known to be gay-iendly. Today there are well over 200 parish listed, and a separate list for “Gay-Friendly Catholic Colleg and Universi” ntas over 100 schools. Many of those parish were muni who had attend gay/lbian mistry workshops offered by Fr.

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

Nugent, who had worked many years parish mistry, was eager to make parish plac where gay and lbian people felt wele and uld participate openly muny life. It allowed gay-iendly parish to know that they were not alone their outreach efforts. Siarly, The Natnal Catholic Reporter featured New Ways Mistry’s gay-iendly parish list on their “Field Hospal” blog, which chronicl ntemporary parish life.

” Twenty years later, New Ways Mistry still learns about new gay-iendly parish much the same way.

“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.

WE WELE AND CELEBRATE THE GIFTS OF OUR GAY BROTHERS AND SISTERS.

DeBernardo believ that the recent crease parish beg gay-iendly is likely a rult of the fluence of Pope Francis:. ’ Beg a gay-iendly Catholic parish is now much ls likely to be seen as a ntradictn.

If you know of a gay-iendly parish, please let know by providg the parish name, cy and state, and webse.

GAY FRIENDLY CHURCH ORANGE COUNTY

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTMany of New York Cy’s most outwardly gay-iendly parish are ncentrated Manhattan, a center of both gay culture and efforts to build a gay-iendly Watts for The New York TimThe pews fill up quickly each Sunday at the Church of St.

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GAY MARSEILLE

Interviews wh more than two dozen gay Catholics New York revealed a powerful sire to rencile their sexual inty wh their fah both God and an stutn that has often approached them wh hostily. Stephanie Samoy, another member of the group, said the parish was “not jt welg to gays and lbians, they’re welg to women, they’re welg to mori and people of lor.

Lbian, gay and bisexual people are much ls likely than heterosexuals to attend relig servic, intify as a member of a relig group or believe that Scripture is the word of God, acrdg to Pew Rearch Center survey data om 80 percent of people surveyed that poll said they nsired the Catholic Church to be “uniendly” to the L.

Catholic teachg scrib homosexual acts as “trsilly disorred” and says that “unr no circumstanc n they be approved. ”In recent years, nservative Catholic hard-lers have blamed homosexualy for the clergy sex abe sndal, falsely lkg homosexualy and pedophilia, and further alienatg L. ”The efforts to create a gay-iendly Catholicism highlight the reful path the Catholic Church and s clergy mt walk liberal plac like New York, an important Amerin relig center where churchgoers often look askance at the Vatin’s stanc on admistered day-to-day by more liberal, self-erng relig orrs — cludg the Jus, the Plist Fathers and the Francisns — affords the parish and their prits the eedom to do thgs like preach hoi that extol the digny of gay people and the value of their relatnships a way that prits who work directly for the rdal tend to also giv the archdce some distance om activi that tradnalists might oppose, like the Pri march participatn of St.