Why are the nuns gay

Anxious to help, to do something to heal his wounds, she agreed. Catholic nuns’ support of LGBT people needs to be repeated over and over again because there is a great presumption on the part of many in the world that nuns, based on the misguided stereotype of them present in the media, are strict and repressive.

People were anxious about any sexual issues, much less homosexual ones. According to Catholic doctrine, solely having same-sex attractions itself is not considered inherently sinful; it is the act of engaging in sexual activity with someone of the same sex that is regarded.

Sister Jeannine is a blessing Sister Jeannine is a blessing!

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Being an outcast of the Church hierarchy has helped Sister Jeannine relate even more to the people she serves. Sister Jeannine patiently explained the basics of homosexuality. On most days, Sister Jeannine wakes in the morning delighted to go to work.

Working with the gay community has made her a target of the male bishops who would like to see her ministry eradicated completely. Dominic strode up to her. Each time they got a letter, her fellow sisters responded to the Vatican that she was simply doing the work of the Church and recommended that she not be sanctioned.

Since she has been running New Ways, an organization that fights for equal rights. I am not a Catholic Christian I am not a Catholic Christian, but she is doing what is felt and called do. Sister Clarita is the first Mexican in the sisterhood, and there are now a lot.

In a strange way I am grateful for those people, they only helped my faith become stronger! Please God, I hope others pick up this cause with their cross. That was the institutional stance in a nutshell. Go Sister!!! VATICAN CITY (RNS) — New book tells the stories of 23 lesbian and queer religious sisters from different backgrounds, communities, age groups and ministries.

Somehow she has managed to remain delighted in the face of serious oppression from within the Church. She wanted to flip the script and pivot from a focus on sexual ethics to a narrative about social justice. It was about civil rights. You have my full Go Sister!!!

The older nun just shook her head. The relationship between the Catholic Church and homosexuality is complex and often contentious, involving various conflicting views between the Catholic Church and some in the LGBTQ community. The tone may be changing, but the dogma is not.

Dominic asked Sister Jeannine if she would be willing to host a home liturgy for him and his buddies, telling her he missed his faith and the Church. Definitely not true. Most of his circle of gay friends hadn’t set foot in a church for years for the same reason.

They stood by me. Dominic’s story made the young nun squirm. How could Sister Jeannine Gramick have known that meeting a handsome gay stranger named Dominic at a house party on Spruce Street in West Philadelphia would completely change the course of her life?

Those superiors were women of vision. She knew there was a profound stigma against homosexuality, especially in conservative Philadelphia, but she despised the idea that the Church would exclude anyone for something so inconsequential.

The nuns have also grown from an organisation largely oriented around cisgender gay men to one of enormous diversity. He was a baptized gay man who had left the Catholic Church because a priest told him he was going to hell. She knew there was a profound stigma against homosexuality, especially in conservative Philadelphia, but she despised the idea that the Church would exclude anyone for something so inconsequential.

I support Jeannine Gramick.