Our message to the Catholic Bishops during the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ annual meeting this year (2004) was directed to those who already know the truth about LGBT people of faith. Our banner read "Romero gave his life for justice – what will you risk?" Each day we gave out a different handout […]
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Soulforce Action at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, November 14-17, 2004 in Washington DC
USCCB ACTION November 14-17, 2004: PLEASE JOIN US FOR THE 5TH YEAR IN A ROW AT OUR NATION’S CAPITOL FOR THE USCCB SOULFORCE ACTION! Final Report Photo Album Stories of Courage in the Roman Catholic Church Media Alert: 11/11/04 Tentative Schedule Why we Vigil at the USCCB (pdf) Case Against the Roman Catholic Church 2004 […]
Washington D.C. – U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops 2003
CATHOLIC BISHOPS FOR THE FOURTH YEAR IN A ROWNOVEMBER 9-13, 2003 Soulforce has been a presence at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for the last four years. PICTURE GALLERY WRAP UP from Kara Speltz PRESS RELEASE (October 22, 2003) – Soulforce to Protest "Unholy Crusade" by the Catholic Church against GLBT People. CASE AGAINST […]
A Synopsis of Current Roman Catholic Teaching on Homosexuality
[Compiled from Voices of Hope, Jeannine Gramick & Robert Nugent, CHE, 1995] The most authoritative teaching of the Catholic Church on homosexuality is contained in the Catechism of the Catholic Church (# 2357 and # 2358) first published in 1992 and revised in 1997 with a definitive Latin edition. This teaching, representing all the bishops […]
2005 Case Against the Catholic Church
In the year since Soulforce last confronted the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the following articles appeared in various new sources concerning the Catholic Church’s attempt to deny gay, lesbian bisexual and transgender people their basic human rights. Again this year the Church continues to focus its attacks, using repetition as a tool to convince […]
2005 Letter for Local Group Leaders to Send to Their Local Bishop
Dear Bishop__________ (your local bishop) (See the USCCB website www.usccb.org/bishops.htm for the name, spelling and address of your bishop) As a licensed local group affiliate of Soulforce, Inc.* that resides within your diocese, we are writing to you to request that we begin a conversation to ensure a place at the Christ’s table for lesbian, […]