Our third and final ad for 2000 will run in the Advocate in the month of June, Pride Month. The Advocate reaches more than 20,000 people each issue. Dignity has received inquiries from many that have seen our ad. We hope that during Pride month our message will reach all those interested in learning more about our journey. This 9-day tour includes stops in Florence, Assisi and Rome, with plenty of time to enjoy the highlights of each city.
Space is limited, so please sign up early.
During meetings in Rome in May, Sister Jeannine Gramick, a School Sister of Notre Dame, and Rev. Robert Nugent, a Salvatorian priest, were ordered to stop speaking publicly about homosexuality, or about the investigation into their nearly thirty-year ministry. In July of 1999, the Vatican had ordered the two to refrain from any kind of pastoral ministry with gay and lesbian people or their families. Since then, they had spoken about the course of the 11-year investigation that led to the original sanctions, the role of conscience in the Church, and lectured on the status of gays and lesbians in the Church within academic forums. They said it would further alienate gay and lesbian Catholics already struggling to reconcile their faith with Church teaching on homosexuality. Gramick and Rev. Nugent have reacted very differently to the latest Vatican directive.