Celebrating 35 Years of Ministry in the LGBT Catholic Community!
From Water to Wine: Lesbian/Gay Catholics & Relationships
Seventh National Symposium on Catholicism & Homosexuality
KATHLEEN KENNEDY TOWNSEND authored the book, Failing America's Faithful: How Today's Churches are Mixing God with Politics and Losing Their Way. She served as Lieutenant Governor and Assistant Attorney General for Maryland, and was a Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the U.S. Department of Justice. The eldest daughter of the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Kathleen is a faithful Catholic.
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Faithful Sexual Relationships and Marriage
PATRICIA BEATTY JUNG is a Professor of Christian Ethics at Saint Paul School of Theology, Kansas City, Missouri. Since 2006, she has served as co-editor of the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics. Among her books are: Hetersexism: An Ethical Challenge and Sexual Diversity and Catholicism: Toward the Development of Moral Theology.
BISHOP GEOFFREY ROBINSON has been a parish priest, a teacher of canon law, president of the Canon Law Society of Australia and New Zealand, Chief Justice of the Archdiocesan Marriage Tribunal, and Chairman of the Catholic Education Commission of New South Wales. After his retirement as an auxiliary bishop of Sydney, he wrote Confronting Power and Sex in the Catholic Church: Reclaiming the Spirit of Jesus.
RICHARD RODRIGUEZ is a noted prose stylist and appeared regularly on PBS's show, NewsHour. He came out as gay in his book of essays, Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. His original ideas were further explored in his collection of essays entitled Brown: The Last Discovery of America, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Award.
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LUKE TIMOTHY JOHNSON is a Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta. He has written 27 books and hundreds of scholarly and popular articles and reviews. His rebuttal of the Jesus Seminar in 1996 sparked a national discussion and made the cover of Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report.
The Web of Relationships: Faith, Family, and Fairness
Doing the Truth in Love: Eros, Relationships, and the Communion of Saints
A Geography of Relationships: Crossing Borders
Sexual Relationships: Where Does Our Morality Come From?
