B NDINGSA Publication of New Ways Ministry Volume 25, No. 1 Summer 2004 Papal envoy breaks ranks on gay couples By Ben Sills in Madrid reported in the Spanish press, will cause and Stephen Bates extreme annoyance within a papal circle The Guardian, London desperate to stop the encroachment of what it May 5, 2004 sees as decadent sexual morality. Although he insisted that same-sex unions The Pope’s ambassador to one of Europe’s could not be regarded as marriages, the leading Catholic countries has hinted that envoy implied that they were at least worthy the church should “acknowledge” gay of compassion. partnerships — a significant crack in the “They are not the same as marriage,” he Vatican’s resolute opposition to “evil and said. “We will leave the term marriage for that deviant” gay relationships. which it has always referred to, and other Monsignor Manuel Monteiro de Castro arrangements should be given other names.” told a conference of Spanish bishops at the The nuncio said gay couples should be weekend: “The new political situation in given access to certain civil rights, including which we are living in Spain sets new those within the social security system. He challenges in the spreading of the gospel added: “The church can also help them in and we must meet those challenges in an their spiritual life.” appropriate manner.” The remarks were in sharp contrast to last Departing from his prepared speech, the year’s Vatican guidelines which called on papal nuncio added that although the law in Catholics to campaign against the legalisation Spain, and many other countries, defines of gay relationships, calling them evil, deviant marriage as the union of a man and a woman, and a grave threat to society. “there are other forms of cohabitation and it The document said: “We must refrain from is good that they be recognised.” any formal cooperation with the promulgation Monsignor Manuel Monteiro The uncommonly outspoken remarks, or application of such seriously unjust laws and, as far as is possible, from any material training in the west for the priesthood are cooperation in their application.” gay. It added: “There are absolutely no grounds Although some Catholic bishops in Notre Dame gays reach for considering homosexual unions to be in England might be privately relatively any way similar or even remotely analogous sympathetic to the nuncio’s views, they to God’s plan for marriage and family. have publicly criticised the government’s Marriage is holy while homosexual acts go proposed civil partnerships legislation. out to other schools against the natural moral law. But there has been a growing sense “Legal recognition of homosexual unions or within the Spanish church that it should By Ron Goldwyn tion of Catholic Colleges and Universi- placing them on the same level as marriage acknowledge and accept different Philadelphia Daily News ties will announce its formation in would mean not only the approval of deviant lifestyles. A meeting in the Gerona diocese April 30, 2004 Philadelphia tomorrow. behaviour ... but would also obscure basic last week also defended gay relationships. The coming-out is part of Equality values which belong to the common But the Archbishop of Madrid, Cardinal They’re the loyal gay sons and Forum, which wraps up a week of gay- inheritance of humanity.” Antonio María Rouco Varela, told the daughters of Notre Dame. They even lesbian-oriented programs with 37 The debate mirrors the crisis in the world- conference: “Marriage, as an institution, have a parking-lot party at Fighting Irish cultural and social events this weekend. wide Anglican communion, threatened with contributes to the growth and stability of football weekends. David Pais, who graduated Notre Dame splits over the church’s attitude to homosexu- society as a structure for bringing up Now the leaders of Notre Dame in 1972, said he expects gay grads from als, particularly those who are ordained. A children. For that, we owe it the recogni- University’s 850-member gay and lesbian 32 schools, including Villanova, St. commission is wrestling with new structures tion and legal support of the state. alumni-alumnae group are taking their Joseph’s and La Salle in the Philadelphia that would enable the Anglican church to “Homosexual cohabitation, which can message to the homosexual graduates of area, to join in launching the group. hold together despite breaches over the never fulfill that role, cannot be credited other Catholic universities and colleges. Successful Catholic graduates who issue. with the same social function as marriage The Gay Lesbian Alumni/ae Associa- have come out as gay will serve as role In November the US Episcopal church and the family.” Continued on page 4 consecrated its first openly gay bishop He added: “This is not about denying and the Anglican church in Canada is anyone their rights, on the contrary it’s INSIDE... poised next month to approve blessing about defending the rights of the family in services for same-sex couples. In Britain a coherent fashion, and that is an issue of the gay cleric Canon Jeffrey John, denied vital importance for the present and future Ban on Gays 2,3 promotion to a bishopric last year, has of Spanish society.” Support for Gays 2,5,6,7 been appointed cathedral dean of St The cardinal said acceptance of homo- Gay Friendly Parishes 7 Albans. sexuality as equivalent to marriage was a The Catholic church is far from such “sad truth” about the declining impor- European Hierarchies 1,8 considerations — though studies have tance of religious values in Spanish suggested a high proportion of priests in society. Page 2 BONDINGS Volume 25, No. 1 Gay Catholics Denied Communion at Chicago B NDINGS Mass; Others Blocked at the Altar in Minnesota Summer 2004 Vol. 25, No. 1 By Mike Colias members wearing the sashes should be seen no Francis DeBernardo, Editor Associated Press differently than a uniformed police officer or Boy Scout Jennifer Morgan, Production Manager and Design May 31, 2004 seeking communion. “What we saw today in the cathedral is discrimination Board of Directors at the Eucharistic table, and that shouldn’t be happen- Mary Byers CHICAGO — Parishioners who wore rainbow-colored ing,” Murray said. Those denied communion returned to Frank O’Donnell, SM sashes to Mass in support of gays and lesbians were their pews, but stood while the rest of the congregation Rev. Paul Thomas denied communion in Chicago, while laymen in Minnesota tried to prevent gay Roman Catholics from getting the knelt. The movement, which started about five years ago in Board of Advisors sacrament. Priests at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago England, also has members in Dallas, New Orleans, New Mary Ann Coyle, SL refused to give the Eucharist to about 10 people wearing York and Rochester, N.Y. William Hunt, SFO the sashes at Sunday Mass. One priest shook each In St. Paul, Minn., people wearing the rainbow-colored Patricia McDermott, RSM person’s hand; another made the sign of the cross on their sashes were given communion Sunday despite protests Barbara Regan, rc foreheads. “The priest told me you cannot receive communion if from some parishioners who kneeled in front of the altar blocking their way. Staff you’re wearing a sash, as per the Cardinal’s direction,” said The Rev. Michael Skluzacek said in a written statement Francis DeBernardo, Executive Director James Luxton, a Chicago member of the Rainbow Sash that both sides were “mistakenly using the Mass and Terence Cant, Program Specialist Movement, an organization of Catholic gay-rights the Eucharist to make their own personal statements.” Jennifer Morgan, Staff Associate supporters with chapters around the country. An internal memo from Chicago Cardinal Francis George Brian McNeill, organizer of the Rainbow Sash Alliance of the Twin Cities, said the local group has worn the Co-Founders that became public last week instructed priests not to give sashes every Pentecost at St. Paul Cathedral since 2001, Sister Jeannine Gramick communion to people wearing the sashes, which the but the group had never experienced such a confronta- Father Robert Nugent group’s members wear every year for Pentecost. The memo says the sashes are a symbol of opposition to the church’s tion. A Vatican doctrinal decree last year directed at Bondings is a seasonal publication designed to keep doctrine on homosexuality and exploit the communion Catholic politicians said a well-formed conscience our subscribers informed of issues that pertain to lesbian ritual. forbids support for any law that contradicts “funda- and gay people and the Catholic Church. “The Rainbow Sash movement wants its members to be fully accepted by the Church not on the same conditions mental” morality, with abortion listed first among relevant issues. A second Vatican statement said it is Founded in 1977, New Ways Ministry is an educational as any Catholic but precisely as gay,” George wrote. “With “gravely immoral” not to oppose legalization of same- and bridge-building ministry of reconciliation between this comes the requirement that the Church change her sex unions. the Catholic gay and lesbian community and institutional moral teaching.” Associated Press Writer Elizabeth Dunbar in St. structures in the Roman Catholic Church. Rainbow Sash Movement spokesman Joe Murray was among those denied communion in Chicago. He said Paul, Minn., contributed to this report. New Ways Ministry seeks to eradicate prevalent myths and stereotypes about homosexuality and supports civil Priest refuses order to Psychologists rights for lesbian and gay persons in society. remove name from Back Gay Marriage For more information, contact: New Ways Ministry, 4012 29th St., letter supporting gays Associated Press Mt. 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Work Phone ______issue of what psychology believes is in the public E-mail ______“The best science that we have to this date tells us that homo- interest in this controversy,” said Armand R. Cerbone, a sexuality is not a disorder or pathology, but that it is a variation of Chicago psychologist who chaired the working group. Please make check payable to “New Ways Ministry.” Outside the the human sexual expression,” he said. The seven-member working group based its recom- U.S., please use use only checks drawn on a U.S. bank in U.S. dollars. In April, Olmsted ordered the nine diocesan priests to remove mendations on research into same-sex relationships and Mail to: New Ways Ministry, their names from the letter developed by No Longer Silent/Clergy families. The Washington-based APA has more than 4012 29th Street, Mt. Rainier, MD 20712. for Justice in January 2003. 150,000 members, including researchers, educators, To date, seven of the priests have withdrawn their names. clinicians, consultants and students. Summer 2004 BONDINGS Page 7 U.N. gay benefits Gay-Friendly Parishes plan approved Below is a partial list of known “gay-friendly” Catholic parishes and faith communities. Thank you The Catholic Messenger for helping us add to this growing list! If you are aware of such a parish that is known as welcoming April 15, 2004 to lesbian and gay Catholics as members and active parishioners, please let us know. Tell us if this welcome is because of a support program, spirituality group, mission statement, participation in gay NEW YORK — Catholics and other community events, involvement with parents, or simply the friendliness of pastoral staff. opponents of a U.N. policy to give partners of gay and lesbian staff mem- Alabama Illinois Long Island: Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Deer Park; bers the same benefits spouses of Montgomery: St. Bede Berwyn: St. Mary of the Celle St. Bridget’s, Westbury; St. Elizabeth, Melville married staffers receive reached a Chicago: Loyola University Chicago, St. Clement Manhattan: Holy Name of Jesus; St. Joseph, compromise on language in the policy. Arizona Country Club Hills: St. Emeric Greenwich Village; St. Francis Xavier; St. Paul the The agreement, reached after lengthy Mesa: Christ the King Morton Grove: St. Martha Apostle debates and informal negotiations, Scottsdale: Franciscan Renewal Center Rochester: Emmanuel Church of the Deaf, St. ensures the policy’s wording will not link Tempe: All Saints Catholic Newman Center Indiana Augustine, St. John the Evangelist (Humboldt domestic partnerships or same-sex Tuscon: Ss. Peter and Paul, St. Pius X, Our Evansville: St. Mary St.), St. Mary’s, St. Monica unions with marriage and family. Arch- Mother of Sorrows, St. Odilia Notre Dame: GALA Notre Dame/St. Mary’s College Syracuse: St. Andrew the Apostle bishop Celestino Migliore, the Vatican’s Utica: St. Francis DeSales U.N. nuncio, said in a telephone inter- California Iowa Berkeley: Holy Spirit Parish North Carolina view April 5 that the compromise took Iowa City: St. Thomas More Claremont: Mother of Good Counsel, Our Charlotte: St. Peter into account objections the Vatican had Lady of the Assumption Kentucky Durham: Immaculate Conception raised and “avoids the confusion” of Eagle Rock: St. Dominic’s Louisville: Epiphany, Cathedral of the Assump Fayetteville: St. Patrick using the same terminology for the two Goleta: St. Mark’s University Parish tion, St. William’s Raleigh: St. Francis of Assisi kinds of relationships. “No one wants to Hawthorne: St. Joseph’s (Spanish) deprive people of anything,” he said. LaPuente: St. Martha Maine Ohio “But we would not like to see the U.N. be Long Beach: St. Matthew’s Saco: Most Holy Trinity Akron: St. Bernard, St. Martha ambiguous or, even worse, establish a Los Angeles: Blessed Sacrament, Christ the Cincinnati: Lesbian/Gay Ministry, Xavier link between the family and domestic King, Loyola-Marymount University, Mother Maryland University; St. Monica-St. George Newman partnership or same-sex union.” of Good Counsel, St. Camillus Center-LA USC Baltimore: Corpus Christi, Loyola College, St. Center, University of Cincinnati Medical Center (Spanish), St. Paul the Francis of Assisi, St. Philip and James Cleveland: Ascension of Our Lord; Gesu Parish Apostle Columbia: St. John the Evangelist University Heights; St. Ladislas, Westlake; St. North Hollywood: St. Jane Frances de Chantal, Gaithersburg: St. Rose of Lima Malachi; St. John Vianney, Mentor; St. Mary of Lewandowski St. Patrick’s Hagerstown: St. Ann the Immaculate Conception, Wooster Sacramento: St. Francis of Assisi Severn: St. Bernadette Columbus: St. Thomas More Newman Center, Sees Himself as San Diego: Christ the King, Our Lady of the Ohio State University Sacred Heart, St. Didicus Massachusetts Dayton: University of Dayton Campus Ministry ‘Reconciler’ San Fransisco: Most Holy Redeemer, Old St. Boston: Boston College, Jesuit Urban Center/ Continued from page 6 Mary’s Cathedral Immaculate Conception, Paulist Center Oregon confirmed the exiting bishop’s support this San Rafael: Church of San Rafael & Mission Newton: Our Lady Help of Christians Central Point: Shepherd of the Valley week. San Rafael Archangel Provincetown: St. Peter the Apostle Portland: Koinonia Catholic Community, St. Lewandowski said he has not met the Santa Clara: GALA, Santa Clara University Sharon: Our Lady of Sorrows Andrew, St. Phillip Neri, St. Vincent de Paul newly appointed bishop, Robert Santa Cruz: Holy Cross Worcester: Holy Cross College McManus, who takes over the diocese in Santa Monica: St. Monica’s Pennsylvania Spring Valley: Santa Sophia Philadelphia: Old St. Joseph’s, Old St. Mary’s, St. May but did not return calls left at his Michigan Valinda: St. Martha’s St. Ignace: St. Ignatius Loyola John the Evangelist, St. Vincent de Paul office in Providence, R.I. West Hollywood: St. Ambrose, St. Victor’s York: St. Joseph, San Damiano Lewandowski said he became increas- Whittier: St. Mary of the Assumption Missouri ingly aware that he needed to minister to Kansas City: Cathedral of the Immaculate Texas gay people when he became chaplain of Colorado Conception, St Francis Xavier Austin: University Catholic Center-University of the Newman Center at Fitchburg State Arvada: Spirit of Christ Catholic Community St. Louis: Holy Family, Holy Innocents, St. Texas College in 1983. Boulder: St. Thomas Aquinas Cronan, St. Margaret of Scotland, St. Pius V Dallas: Holy Trinity Stopping suicide Denver: St. Dominic’s Plano: St. Elizabeth Ann Seton “I have buried kids at the college Minnesota San Antonio: University of the Incarnate Word because they were gay and committed Connecticut Minneapolis: St. Frances Cabrini, St. Joan of suicide because they were told they were Hartford: St. Patrick-St. Anthony Arc, St. Stephen Virginia wretched or rotten,” he said forcefully. St. Paul: College of St. Catherine, University of St. Arlington: Our Lady Queen of Peace “That’s simply not the case. That’s simply District of Columbia Thomas Richmond: Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, Sacred not the case.” Dahlgren Chapel-Georgetown University, Holy Heart Parish Lewandowski is still FSC chaplain, but Trinity, St. Aloysius, St. Matthew Cathedral, New Jersey Roanoke: St. Gerard’s he added the St. Camillus pastorship to his Clifton: St. Brendan Virginia Beach: St. Nicholas duties because of a priest shortage. Florida Wayside: St. Anselm He said St. Camillus membership Casselberry: St. Augustine Washington continues to grow as others have declined Ft. Lauderdale: St. Anthony, St. Maurice New Mexico Seattle: St. Benedict Melbourne: Ascension Parish and has retained most of its lifelong Espanola: Sacred Heart of Jesus Naples: St. John the Evangelist West Virginia members, many of them elderly. Winter Haven: St. Matthew New York Shepherdstown: St. Agnes “They support us with everything we Baldwinsville: St. Augustine do,” said Ben Nogueira. “It seems to be Georgia Brooklyn: St. Andrew the Apostle, St. Boniface Wisconsin the only church in the city that supports Atlanta: Shrine of the Immaculate Conception East Islip: St. Mary Madison: St. Benedict Center Sunday Assembly groups that aren’t in favor with anybody Fairport: Church of the Assumption Milwaukee: Prince of Peace, Trinity-Guadalupe else.” Page 6 BONDINGS Volume 25, No. 1 Lewandowski Sees Himself As ‘A Reconciler, Not a Divider’ By Matt O’Brien “I was upset to see his letter, but he also to leave. He went to a Polish seminary in Michi- The Sentinel and Enterprise testified to the Massachusetts Legislature “I’ve been there almost 50 years so you gan and then returned to Worcester, where Fitchburg, Massachusetts in support of same-sex marriage, which is know everybody,” she said. “It’s like he was ordained in 1974. April 19, 2004 directly against the church’s position,” home to me. ... It’s still my home.” It wasn’t until 13 years later, when he Hobbib argued. “It’s unfortunate that you Fredette thinks the children of gay was reading scriptures for the Feast of the FITCHBURG, MA — The Rev. Richard P. have people who are priests that openly couples would benefit from gay marriage. Annunciation in March, that he knew for Lewandowski doesn’t consider himself a disagree with the church teaching.” He believes Lewandowski is always sure “he was doing the right thing.” dissident. Lewandowski, whose parish outreach careful to be theologically accurate in Doing the will of God He doesn’t think he’s “unorthodox” programs minister to gay people in the his public statements but said political “I remember that so vividly because the either, though some Catholics have region, believes most of the state’s priests issues rarely arise during Sunday services. readings were (about) doing the will of accused the priest of abandoning his did not show Hobbib’s video at weekend God,” he said. “It wasn’t any kind of grand church’s teachings on homosexuality. Masses because they viewed it as a revelation; it was just through meditation “Those are all the buzz words to try to negative distraction from Lenten services. that I came to realize it.” dismiss me, but the fact is, instead of “That’s not the Catholic teaching,” Lewandowski downplays his difference dismiss, why don’t we dialogue,” said Lewandowski said. “There are some in views from new church leaders such as Lewandowski, pastor of St. Camillus di people that think that it is. It’s not.” O’Malley. Lellis Parish on Mechanic Street. “Every- The video was produced as a “teaching “I think that’s a healthy thing,” he said. thing that I’ve been doing in this parish tool for the future,” D’Avolio said “The danger can be if I become so self- has been according to the teachings of the “I disagree with Father Lewandowski. righteous that I have all the answers, and Roman Catholic Church.” That’s very clear,” D’Avolio said. “The you have none.” When the political arm of the state’s four Massachusetts Catholic Conference “I see myself as a bridge-builder. I see Catholic dioceses, the Massachusetts disagrees with that position. We don’t myself as a reconciler rather than a Catholic Conference, distributed a video apologize for anything.” divider,” he said. denouncing gay marriage, Lewandowski Parishioners weigh in Not everyone agrees, Lewandowski has apologized to gays and lesbians for “the Norman Fredette and his wife have been come to realize. hurt” he said the organization caused. attending St. Camillus for more than 40 He gets a lot of mail at the church, some He wrote, in a letter published April 11 in years, long before Lewandowski was Fr. Rich Lewandowski signed and some not, some supportive the Sentinel & Enterprise, that the MCC’s assigned to the church in 1992. “It doesn’t seem to find its way into the and some negative. video and statements “do not necessarily “I don’t see anything wrong with Father Mass in any overt way. I think that’s why “These are from Somerville, Cambridge, I represent the views of all Catholic clergy.” (Lewandowski’s) position. It just doesn’t people don’t feel like he’s doing bad don’t know who these people are,” The man who made the video, which the seem inconsistent to me,” said Fredette. things in any direction,” said Fredette. Lewandowski said as he sifted through MCC endorsed for distribution to parishes “People I speak with I guess are mixed, but “He’s an opening and welcoming person, thank you cards that recently arrived to across the state, said Lewandowski and a it’s the kind of place where you can and I can tell he’s uncomfortable counting the church because of his recently handful of priests are leading parishioners disagree. The people I talk to are not one- anybody out and saying, well, you published letter. “astray” on the issue of gay marriage. issue people. That’s the sense that I shouldn’t come to this church. He’s the Most of those letters end up in the Out of sync with the Vatican? have.” kind of person, and this is what I like hands of the lay people who help run his “The Vatican has come out very, very Julia Casey believes gay marriage is about him, is that he just doesn’t reject church. clearly with their position on same-sex “biologically impossible,” but she and her people.” “I’ve responded to a couple of them, but marriage,” said Newton software marketer husband have been attending St. Camillus Cultural growing pains I don’t send any venom back,” said Ben William Hobbib. “I can say, the Vatican and since they moved to Fitchburg from Lewandowski, during a recent interview Nogueira, the church’s deacon. the Holy Father and the catechism of the Dorchester 35 years ago. at his home in the St. Camillus rectory, said The deacon said most of the negative Holy Church that embodies the holy “He’s an activist priest. He’s got a lot of he thinks the increasingly vocal divide comments come from members of the teaching would disagree with him. He’s out enthusiasm,” she said. “I don’t always within the Catholic community on social community who do not attend St. Camillus, of sync with the Vatican and the published agree with everything he says, but people concerns is a product of cultural growing which he said opens its arms to everyone. teaching authority of the church.” can’t always agree. I don’t feel as though I pains. “They’re just saying we should go to Hobbib said he was “troubled” by need to change my church.” Casey said He cites Boston Archbishop Sean hell and our teachings are all wrong. That Lewandowski’s letter. she’s lasted through five pastors at the O’Malley, who recently made public we should read the Bible,” said the “Every bit of that video was backed up church. comments calling most of the baby- deacon’s wife, Lois Nogueira. “Never has by scholarly work and verified,” said “He hasn’t been defrocked. He hasn’t boomer generation “religious illiterates.” there been anything in the homilies ... that Gerald D’Avolio, executive director of the been thrown out. He hasn’t been censored Lewandowski is a baby boomer born went against church teaching.” Massachusetts Catholic Conference. in any way. I go listen to the homilies, I just three years after O’Malley. He said it Lewandowski said everything he does Lewandowski counters that he was receive the sacraments,” she said. was the upheaval of the 1960s that to minister to gays and lesbians aligns “troubled” by the video. Not going along actually inspired him to become a priest. with the church’s message and the “The teaching of the church is not that Joan Conroy of Fitchburg also feels “We come from the same generation guidance of the Worcester Catholic gay marriage is going to cause problems strongly against gay marriage, “though and somehow we have been formed by Diocese’s retiring leader. for the elderly and their medical benefits,” not homosexuals themselves.” that generation differently,” Lewandowski The priest got help from the diocese to said Lewandowski, referring to one of “I certainly do not go along with a lot of said. form an organization, Gay/Lesbian numerous arguments made in the eight- that,” Conroy said of Lewandowski’s Born in Worcester to a Catholic family Outreach (GLO), that meets at the church minute movie. public pronouncements. “He really does a of Polish descent, Lewandowski was one and works with gay people and their His church, he says, has always come to lot of good, so I just have to ignore this of nine children and the first member of families. his side. and I just pray.” his family to enter the priesthood. “Bishop Reilly is a very compassionate “I’ve not seen the video. I’ve only heard Conroy is part of the church choir, a He was a “social” student at his high and kind churchman, and he has encour- about it on the news,” said Worcester Eucharistic minister and a lector who sees school, not a particularly studious one, aged us to continue to serve as ministers Diocese spokesman Raymond Delisle, who Lewandowski as a “doer, he gets things but one who found inspiration from the to gays and lesbians,” Lewandowski said. said retiring Bishop Daniel Reilly has done.” sense of idealism he saw in President John “He has been nothing but supportive.” always supported Lewandowski’s Her daughter was baptized at the F. Kennedy, the Rev. Martin Luther King Delisle, the bishop’s spokesman, outreach efforts to gays and lesbians. church, and Conroy said she doesn’t plan Jr., and the Second Vatican Council. Continued on page 7 Summer 2004 BONDINGS Page 3 Former Boston bishop wants gay ban in Catholic seminaries ‘Men with pathologies and difficulties, they will draw the same kind,’ says Bishop D’Arcy

By Chuck Colbert bishop and other members of the hierarchy do erupted locally and nationally more than two years Innewsweekly.com decide to follow through on their ban, it seems ago. July 28, 2004 only right that those who are gay should resign For example, the Globe’s reporting then of the their positions now,” he said. “After all, how abuse scandal shined light on D’Arcy’s views. The BOSTON — Pastoral sensitivity to stem parish could they in good conscience ban what they bishop wrote any number of letters, including one closings and advocacy to ban gay men from the themselves are?” written in 1984, about the late Rev. John Geoghan, clergy made strange spiritual bedfellows when Frank DeBernardo, executive director of New whom D’Arcy warned Cardinal Bernard F. Law, had Bishop John M. D’Arcy of the Fort Wayne/South Ways Ministry, a gay positive and affirming “a history of homosexual involvement [with] young Bend diocese in Indiana returned to a Brighton ministry, echoed Martel’s observation. “Bishop men.” parish this past weekend. D’Arcy’s comments reveal his own ignorance D’Arcy served as an auxiliary bishop under Law During the 10 a.m. Sunday homily at Our Lady about homosexuality,” he said. “Gay priests at the time, but was assigned to the Indiana dio- of Presentation Church, where D’Arcy grew up, have served the Church faithfully for centuries, cese shortly thereafter. Law was forced to resign the bishop said, “We must be careful of who we and will continue to do so. The only question over the sex abuse crisis. accept in the seminary and who we ordain as will be how honest they and their Church can be Geoghan, a major figure in the scandal, had been priests,” adding, “It’s time to ordain men of about homosexuality.” accused of molesting 150 children, mostly boys. At quality, not just look for numbers,” according to Like Martel, DeBernardo also offered a the time of his murder in prison, Geoghan was The Boston Globe, which first reported the story. suggestion: “What the church needs is not a serving a nine- to 10-year sentence for molesting a Our Lady of Presentation is set to close under ban on gay priests, but a ban on anti-gay 10-year-old boy. a regional parish consolidation plan. D’Arcy’s statements from Church leaders.” Altogether, Bishop D’Arcy’s recent comments presence lent support to parishioners who are The National Coalition of American Nuns also prompted a response from the Boston archdio- lobbying to keep the church open as a chapel for offered their perspective. “Bishop D’Arcy cese. “The main issue is celibacy,” said the Rev. weekly services. The bishop said he would pray suggests that clerical sexual misconduct toward Christopher J. Coyne, a spokesman, who also for the parish. males can be controlled by not ordaining acknowledged that while some discussion of a ban But his comments on banning gay seminarians homosexuals. This makes as much sense as on homosexual seminarians among some diocesan are what generated headlines from The Associated saying that eliminating heterosexuals from the officials and those in the Vatican had occurred, no Press to Advocate.com. seminary will prevent a repetition of all the decisions had been made. According to D’Arcy, the Church must find pregnancies, abortions, and sexual abuse of Coyne also told the Globe that only 20 percent men that can be respected, in other words, “men women who have been victimized by priests,” of applicants for the priesthood in the local arch- who would be good husbands, men who would be said Sister Jeannine Gramick, SL, a member of diocese are accepted. “I don’t see the need here in good fathers.” After the Mass in a Globe inter- the executive committee of the nun’s organiza- Boston,” he said of a possible change and overhaul view, the bishop acknowledged that his good- tion. of screening. “I can say the process in Boston is a husbands, good-fathers remark conveyed his The national organization of gay Catholics good one.” belief that only heterosexuals are fit for ordina- also weighed in: “Dignity is appalled that the tion. bishop would begin to hunt gay priests again,” To put gay men in an all-male environment is said Matt Gallagher, executive director of apparently too tempting with too many attrac- Dignity/USA, the oldest nationwide organiza- tions. We don’t put these [heterosexual] men in tion of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender with attractive women,” D’Arcy told the Globe, Catholics, based in Washington, D.C., also with Recommended Reading referring to seminaries. “You’re putting him with a local chapter in Boston. men. It’s not fair to them, it’s not fair to the Gallagher also pointed out that D’Arcy is out church.” of step with his fellow bishops’ organization. U.S. Catholic D’Arcy also said that if the church can bring “The president of the [United States Conference the right men with the right temperament for the of Catholic Bishops] has said that it would not “Mom, Dad, I’m gay” priesthood, then more priests will be inspired to be blaming gay priests or looking into people’s work for the Church. “If we ordain men with sexual orientation,” he said. August 2004 pathologies and difficulties, they will draw the Kara Speltz, the chairwoman of Soulforce’s Volume 69, Number 8 same kind,” he explained. “Don’t just pray for Catholic team, offered her perspective: “To pages 18-23 priests, pray for priests of quality.” suggest that gay men are not men of quality is Reaction to the bishop’s comments have been simply outrageous,” she said. “Was there a swift and pointed, both locally and nationally. better priest than Mychal Judge?” The reference Fewnway resident Charles Martel, a gay was to the openly gay priest who was a victim Catholic lay leader and psychotherapist, said, of the 9/11 terrorist attacks at the World Trade “D’Arcy, like so many in the Catholic hierarchy, Center in New York. Notre Dame Magazine seem bent on blaming everything wrong in the Bishop D’Arcy’s comments about patholo- Church and in society on gay men. His idea that gies and difficulties conveys beliefs held by “The Love That Dare gay men should be banned from the priesthood some prelates that homosexuality per se is a Not Speak Its Name” just on the basis of being gay is an insult to every pathological condition or as the Catholic wonderful gay priest who is serving the Church Church teaching states, an “objective disorder,” Summer 2004 today.” which if acted upon is immoral, a manifestation Volume 33, Number 2 Explained Martel, “This scapegoating is of “intrinsic evil.” terribly divisive, harmful, and continues to create Prelates like D’Arcy go even further, linking a climate of discrimination based on fear that has what they believe to be the pathology of no place in the Church. Whatever happened to homosexuality with that of sex abuse. D’Arcy’s the Church that preached inclusion?” views on that kind of misinformed blurring came Martel also offered a suggestion: “If the to light when the scandal of clerical sex abuse Page 4 BONDINGS Volume 25, No. 1 Boston College prez rejects gay candidates for English department Whether decision based on sexual orientation remains unclear; some say same-sex marriage issue in play By Chuck Colbert takes effect. and I didn’t get the job because I am acquire key real estate for the college, Innewsweekly.com Meanwhile, there were four finalists by African-American.’ He said it was like other observers and insiders also specu- April 22, 2004 the end of the English department’s search that.” late. process, according to Dunn. They were For his part, Lewis said that his remarks Nonetheless, the prestigious Rattigan BOSTON — The hiring or non-hiring of ranked in order and presented to Father may have been misunderstood. Professorship sits empty, difficult to fill. two gay men in the Boston College Leahy for his final decision. “We never suggested that the president The most recent search was the third to English department couldn’t have come at As president, Leahy has the final say on acted out of bias,” the English department fail. a more inopportune time for the university hiring for tenure positions, “That’s his chair told the Globe. “We only asked In the immediate aftermath of the non- or its president, Rev. William Leahy, a right,” Dunn said. questions about whether this might be hiring, finger pointing prevails. Jesuit priest. Among those four candidates were two going on.” “It’s an outrageous case of discrimina- According to a story on April 8 in The gay men, ranked first and second. Attempts to reach Lewis by phone and tion,” Phillips told the Globe. Boston Globe, the school’s president The English department’s top choice for e-mail failed. “It would be sickening to be working at a rejected the leading candidates because the prestigious Rattigan Professorship Nevertheless, some gay BC observers place where this could happen. I don’t they are gay. But not so, says Boston was Mark Doty, a poet who lives in both and insiders wonder about a connection think the president’s actios are reflective of College spokesman Jack Dunn, director of New York and Provincetown. between Leahy’s anti-gay marriage the BC community in general. I have a public affairs. At no time was the sexual Second was Carl Phillips, a professor of position and his decision not to hire gay helpless feeling about it.” orientation of the candidates discussed English, African, and Afro-American candidates. Leahy may want to curry favor For his part, Dunn believes that Lewis during the process, Dunn said in a recent studies at Washington University in St. with Archbishop O’Malley while the and the English department are to blame telephone interview. Louis. university attempts to buy land from the for derailing the process after Leahy nixed Boston College is a most open and The other two candidates in order of archdiocese, one person, who asked not their first choices. tolerant university, Dunn told the Globe. preference included Jonathan Schell, a to be identified, speculated. “The committee chose to inform the “We have gay faculty and students who former writer for The New Yorker and a “Follow the trail of money to that parcel candidates that the search was off,” Dunn flourish here and who contribute mightily visiting professor at Yale Law School, and of land over on Lake Street,” one source told the Globe. “Why did they forfeit the to the intellectual vibrancy of the univer- Margot Livesey, a Cambridge novelist. said. right to hire an excellent candidate just sity. Any assertion that sexual orientation Leahy “wasn’t aware that [Doty and Not hiring openly gay candidates and because he didn’t fit their narrow, personal plays into hiring here is completely Phillips] were gay until after the fact,” coming out strong against gay marriage agenda.” unfounded.” Dunn said, quoted in the Globe. He makes perfect sense, if a key goal is “Such a move was a political statement,” Dunn also points to openly gay faculty thought Schell was the best candidate to winning favor with the archbishop to he suggested during a phone interview. members at the Chestnut Hill campus. For meet the needs of the students of the instance, Kevin Ohi teaches a queer English department. Notre Dame Gays reach out Boston College is a Roman Catholic theory course, and Andrew Sofer, a gay continued from page 1 deconstructionist, are among English university that is run by the Jesuits, a department faculty members, Dunn said. religious order of men. models for students at the schools they standing. But Storin said it would soon Moreover, the school’s notice of Last year, Leahy granted official attended, he said. get its first mention in an alumni publica- nondiscrimination states: “Boston College recognition to a gay-straight student This weekend’s “networking,” Pais said, tion, “a sort of here-we-exist kind of does not discriminate on the basis of race, alliance group. That decision broke a could lead to forming groups like Notre notice.” religion, color, national origin, age, marital string of three previous rejections of Dame-St. Mary’s group, which he helped “There certainly is no secret that we or parental status, veteran status, sex, or requests for official status of a gay- to found 12 years ago. have gay and lesbian students,” Storin disabilities in admission to, access to, friendly student organization. There’s no formal agenda yet, but Pais, 54, said, “so it stands to reason we have gay treatment in, or employment in its However, this year Leahy has taken a of New York City, sees the national Catholic and lesbian graduates.” programs and activities.” public stand, in accord with the Boston group as an idea whose time has come. Notre Dame’s film-TV-theater depart- It also goes on to say, “The University is archdiocese and Archbishop Sean Patrick “My hope is what we can do is advance ment hosted in February its first “Queer in compliance with the laws of the O’Malley against same-sex civil marriage. the discussion around spirituality, Film Festival,” at which Equality Forum Commonwealth of Massachusetts and Along with other religious leaders, Leahy sexuality and homosexuality,” he said. executive director Malcolm Lazin pre- provides equal employment and housing in fact signed on in favor of a constitu- “When I went to Notre Dame, I was a sented “Jim in Bold.” opportunities without regard to sexual tional amendment banning gay marriage. very traditional Catholic. The whole The documentary about homophobia orientation.” That anti-gay civil marriage stand, some religion was following laws,” said Pais, was produced by the Forum and made its And the policy states: “Boston College BC observers say, may well explain who says he is a regular churchgoer at a debut last year. It tells of a gay Lebanon, is an academic community whose doors Leahy’s rejection of gay candidates. “very inclusive Jesuit parish.” Pa., teenager who wrote poetry but was are open to all students without regard to In fact, one of the candidates, Phillips, “At Notre Dame I lost my religion but I harassed at school and ultimately race, religion, age, sex, marital or parental has a partner. found my faith - doing good, trying to committed suicide. status, national origin, veteran status, or Philips, according to the Globe’s story, create a better world and accepting who I Lazin said discussions he had after the handicap. said that English department Chairman was and what God made me.” screening in South Bend, Ind., with BC does not, however, provide domestic Paul Lewis, who also chaired the search While Catholic teaching condemns students and gay alums such as Pais led partnership benefits to the significant process, called him to say, “There were homosexual acts, it calls for compassion for eventually to the launch of a national gay others of faculty members, employees or problems at the level of the president.” homosexuals. Several surveys have shown alumni organization. students. Said Phillips, quoted in the Globe, “This Catholic laity are more tolerant of gays than Pais said the football tailgate party drew But that will change, Dunn acknowl- somehow had to do with the complicated conservative religious Protestants. more than 100 gay alums last year and edged, when gay or lesbian faculty issue of gay marriage and civil unions. I At Notre Dame, gay acceptance has drew “an amazing” positive response from members, employees, or students marry called him [Lewis] and said: ‘Are you been undergoing an evolution, according other fans at pregame festivities. someone of the same gender after May 17, saying that I didn’t get the job because I to both Pais and Matt Storin, the “We are loyal sons and daughters of the when the state high court’s decision am gay and have a domestic partner? university’s official spokesman. university,” he said. “We love Notre Dame upholding same-sex civil marriage rights That’s as if this happened 40 years ago, The gay alum group has no official as much as everyone else.” Summer 2004 BONDINGS Page 5 Sharper Focus: Reasoned Catholic responses to marriage By Chuck Colbert any forms of injustice, oppression, or women have done so. further examine the question, ‘What is the Innewsweekly.com violence against them’ (from The Pastoral Roman Catholic nuns are speaking out nature or essence of marriage?’ NCAN May 26, 2004 Care of Homosexual Persons, 1986). for same-sex marriage as a civil right. The maintains that love, care, and commitment “We call on all our brothers and sisters National Coalition of American Nuns to another human being, not gender or Two groups of Catholics, one local, one in the commonwealth to treat same-sex (NCAN) had this to say in a recently procreation, form the essence or meaning national, have raised their voice with the couples with respect, and to do no harm released statement: of marriage. advent and now dawn of same-sex civil to them or their families. We urge a “NCAN believes that a responsible ethic “NCAN believes that civil law, as well as marriage in America. Both offer the respectful discourse and dialogue among emanates from both individual conscience theology, must respect and protect all Church much wisdom. From the first all people.” and theological reflection within a faith persons. group, their statement is not even 200 Written and drafted in part by Larry community. We further believe that all “In 1996, when the United States Senate words long, but its message — signed Kessler and Charles Martel, local gay persons have a right to choose how they considered passage of the Defense of by more than a 100 Bay State Catholics, Catholic leaders, along with several fulfill the divine command to love one Marriage Act, which stated that marriage members of the clergy, prominent lay priests of the Archdiocese of Boston, the another. We are opposed to any environ- must involve a man and a woman, NCAN persons, theologians, women and men open letter’s purpose had several ment that does not allow people to follow opposed the bill. NCAN still opposes any religious — rings loud and clear: objectives. their consciences and make informed such measure. We believe heterosexual “On May 17, the Commonwealth of One purpose was to speak out for a judgments about their own lives. We marriage needs no legislative act to Massachusetts will begin issuing civil peaceful transition as the marital state for welcome theological reflection from all the defend it because it is no more threatened marriage licenses to same-sex couples. gay and lesbian couples arrives, mindful people of God to produce a viable sexual by same-sex marriage than by celibate This has provoked considerable that a number who marry are gay and ethic. single persons. controversy. Many in our state are lesbian Catholics themselves. “There is much disagreement about gay “While communities of faith debate the opposed, and many are in favor. As Another object was to demonstrate marriage among people of good faith. theological meaning of marriage and a members of the Catholic community and respect and support for gay and lesbian Some Christian congregations have viable sexual ethic, we believe the political people of faith, we are reminded of the persons. Using the Vatican’s very own blessed same-sex unions for years, seeing definition of marriage must not be pastoral message the United States teaching sends a powerful message to all no contradiction to the Bible or to the discriminatory. The ethic in the civil arena Bishops issued to parents of homosexual — that gays also enjoy full human dignity natural moral law. seems clear: If heterosexual unions or children, ‘Always Our Children,’ and and fundamental rights. They should not “NCAN believes that human conscious- marriages are recognized by the state, a recall the guidance they offered with be treated unjustly, be oppressed, or ness has slowly evolved to accept the lack of similar recognition of same-sex reference to a previous Vatican docu- suffer violence or injustice. dignity and human rights of all people so unions or marriages is an unambiguous ment: At the same time, as any number of that slavery is now generally condemned discrimination based on sexual orienta- ‘Respect for the God-given dignity of faithful Catholic voices among the laity worldwide. The Christian Church’s tion. Such discrimination is politically and all persons means the recognition of and clergy speak out locally against appreciation for the inviolability of morally wrong.” human rights and responsibilities. The violence and for respect and human religious freedom, its sexual theology, and Politically and morally wrong, the sisters teachings of the church make it clear that dignity, another group hopes to take the even its understanding of the meaning of say. Would that our local hierarchical the fundamental human rights of faithful further. While local Catholics fell marriage have all changed over the (male) Church leadership take note of homosexual persons must be defended short of endorsing same-sex civil mar- centuries. Can we not imagine that God’s such courage and listen to those words of and that all of us must strive to eliminate riage, another group of courageous Spirit is asking the human community to reason — and the sisters’ wisdom. Bishops Unable To Agree On Gays And Communion Pilgrimage to Austria and Bavaria 365Gay.com action. churches. June 18, 2004 The bishops also said they did not want Chicago’s Cardinal Francis George, who Feb 26-March 7, 2005 communion, which Catholics believe is the has already refused to give communion to for friends and advocates DENVER — A meeting of America’s Roman body and blood of Christ, to be reduced to a members of a gay Catholic group, reportedly of lesbian and gay Catholics Catholic bishops that wrapped up late Friday political issue. supported a ban on the Sacraments to afternoon was unable to reach a national “The polarizing tendencies of election-year politicians who support gay issues. Contact: consensus on what penalties should be politics can lead to circumstances in which Last month, the Roman Catholic Bishop of meted out to politicians who oppose the Catholic teaching and sacramental practices Colorado Springs said any Catholic who Jeannine Gramick, SL Church’s stand on gay marriage. can be misused for political ends.” votes for politicians who do not oppose 301-864-3604 The bishops have been meeting for the past The resolution is bound to frustrate same-sex marriage, abortion rights, stem-cell [email protected] week in Englewood, Colorado. President Bush who last week asked the research, or euthanasia may not receive While some bishops have called for Roman Pope to put pressure on the American Communion until they recant and repent in Catholic politicians who support same-sex churchmen to be more vocal in their support the confessional. marriage to be denied the sacraments of the of a proposed amendment to ban same-sex Bishop Michael Sheridan later softened his Church, others prefer a less confrontational marriage. Bush reportedly implored the Pope tone saying that rather than the church approach. to increase Catholic condemnation of gay refusing them communion they should In the end, despite heavy lobbying from marriage in the weeks leading up to the voluntarily abstain from the rites of the both sides, the bishops decided to leave it up election. Church, after his Archbishop suggested in a to individual dioceses. A closing statement, Bush, a Protestant, opposes same-sex pastoral letter that he opposed blanket approved by a 183 - 6 vote said each decision marriage while Sen. John Kerry, a Catholic sanctions. about denying communion to some Catholics and the presumptive Democratic presidential Charles Chaput, the Archbishop of Denver in public life should rest with the individual nominee and who also opposes gay marriage said that he would be reluctant to prevent bishop “in accord with established canonical would allow civil unions, also opposed by Catholics from receiving the sacrament. and pastoral principles.” The statement also Bush and the Church. Chaput said communion should be said bishops can legitimately make different Some bishops have told the Kerry withheld only in “extraordinary cases of judgments on the “most prudent” course of campaign that he is not welcome in their public scandal.” Page 8 BONDINGS Volume 25, No. 1 England’s Catholic leaders shrink from Vatican on gays Where Rome sees ‘evil,’ British bishops more open to marriage rights By Tod Robberson The softer position on gay rights pronouncements of senior Catholic prefer in defending marriage as a The Dallas Morning News emerged Wednesday in a new, 103- officials in Spain and Belgium that bond between a man and woman. May 26, 2004 page teaching document, “Cherish- the church needs to recognize He acknowledged growing con- ing Life,” outlining the views of the same-sex relationships. cern among the clergy in England LONDON - England’s Roman Catholic Church of England and Although England’s Catholic and elsewhere that there is a grow- Catholic Church officially distanced Wales on life, morality and many of population is small, its challenge to ing perception of the church as itself Wednesday from Vatican the controversial issues confronting Vatican doctrine suggests a grow- insensitive and “nay-saying all the doctrine on the “evil” of same-sex modern society. ing concern among the European time.” unions, declaring that some “remedy Endorsed by the church’s head, clergy that Pope John Paul II has Cardinal O’Connor, writing in The by law” might be necessary to Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, alienated the public with his Guardian newspaper Wednesday, remove barriers to gay partnerships. the document adds heft to the condemnation of gay unions. acknowledged the church’s need to The Vatican took its harsher counter “a caricature of Christian, stance last July after several and specifically Catholic, morality European governments moved to that has developed over the years. grant nearly the same legal rights to It is wrong, for example, to imagine Deep Within, I Will Plant my Law: same-sex unions that they confer that Catholics are unusually preoc- upon married heterosexual couples. cupied with sin. It would be more A Retreat on Conscience, Catholics, The 26-nation European Union also accurate to say that we are preoccu- And Homosexuality is considering measures to recog- pied with the notion of forgive- nize gay unions. ness.” with Sister Margaret Farley, RSM The Vatican warned Catholic The church has suffered bouts of Yale University Divinity School politicians around the world not to bad publicity in Europe over the last support any proposed legislation year following a British television granting marital rights to gay interview with a cardinal in Colom- October 29-31, 2004 couples, stating, “Those who bia who suggested that condoms LaSallette Center for Christian Living would move ... to the legitimization can help spread AIDS. 947 Park Street of specific rights for cohabiting Belgium’s Cardinal Gustaaf Joos, Attleboro, Massachusetts 02703 homosexual persons need to be 80, added to the controversy when reminded that the approval or he condemned a new Belgian law legalization of evil is something far granting nearly full marital rights to Weekend or Saturday only; different from the toleration of gays and declaring in a magazine for more information, contact New Ways Ministry: evil.” interview that most gays are “sexual 4012 29th St., Mt. Rainier, MD 20712 The new British church document perverts.” 301-277-5674 counters: “The Church utterly Belgian Cardinal Godfried Danneels [email protected] condemns all forms of unjust quickly disavowed the two clerics’ discrimination, violence, harass- remarks. He has since issued concilia- ment or abuse directed against tory statements toward gay sympa- people who are homosexual.” thizers and contradicted Vatican Although it still rejects gay sex doctrine by advocating the use of and marriage, it adds, “It must be condoms to prevent the spread of life- Loretto Volunteer Joins quite clear that a homosexual threatening diseases. orientation must never be consid- A view from Spain New Ways for Year ered sinful or evil in itself.” In Spain, the Vatican’s official Discrimination concerns envoy, or papal nuncio, Monsignor In May 2004, Jennifer, a native of The document also acknowledges Manuel Monteiro de Castro, told a Mobile, Alabama, graduated from the the need for some legislation to conference of Spanish bishops this University of Notre Dame with a eliminate discrimination against month that the church needed to degree in Political Science and gays who live together in a commit- acknowledge the existence of English. While at Notre Dame, she ted relationship. partnerships other than those was a Resident Assistant in her dorm, “It may be necessary ... to remedy between heterosexuals. an intern for Congressman Tim by law unjust situations in which “There are other forms of cohabi- Roemer, sports editor of the yearbook, the bonds of friendship are improp- tation, and it is good that they be and an active participant in Campus erly disregarded (for instance, recognized,” European newspapers Ministry programs and retreats. With being excluded from appropriate quoted him as saying. any time to spare, Jennifer enjoys consultation regarding medical care “It is the case that English bish- going on long runs or curling up with or from funeral arrangements),” the ops and Belgians and various a good book. document states. “In such cases others, particularly in the West, Jennifer Morgan In addition to her responsibilities at the right to justice is founded on have pastoral care and preach the the New Ways office in Mt. Rainier, the dignity of every human being Gospel in places where popular New Ways Ministry recently wel- Maryland, Jennifer will be interacting and citizenship and not on sexual opinion about homosexuality has comed its newest staff member, with Gay and Lesbian Outreach activity or orientation.” shifted quite significantly,” Dr. Jennifer Stapleton Morgan. Jennifer is groups at colleges in the DC area, Dr. David Jones, editor of “Cher- Jones explained. “I think they are part of a service program run by the networking with various groups, as ishing Life,” said the original concerned about alienating indi- Loretto community, and will be a well as attending New Ways retreat, Vatican position employed “forceful viduals of homosexual inclination or Loretto Volunteer at New Ways until seminars, and conferences around the terms” that went beyond the people who are friends or feel in August 2005. country. comfort level that English bishops solidarity with homosexuals.”