Posts tagged: "Father Robert Nugent"

  1. British Catholic groups support American pioneers of Catholic Lesbian and Gay Ministry

    15 July 1999

    Two British Catholic gay and lesbian organisations and a national network for Catholic parents of lesbian, gay, and bisexual people, have issued a statement of support for Sister Jeannine Gramick SSND and Father Robert Nugent SDS, whose writings and pastoral ministry were censured in a strongly worded Vatican statement, issued on 13 July 1999. Sister Jeannine and Father Nugent founded New Ways Ministry in 1977, near Washington DC. Over the years they have facilitated a number of workshops in the UK for superiors of religious communities, clergy, pastoral workers, gay and lesbian people and their parents. (more…)