"Gay-Friendly" Catholic parishes

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Nucatholic
If your looking for a college seminary I know that St. John Vianney Seminary at the University of St. Thomas in St Paul MN is a good seminary. Here are some of the diocese that send seminarians to Vianney: Sioux Falls, Denver, Colorado Springs, La Crosse, and I think Fargo not sure on that one though. From what I hear St. Thomas has a great Catholic Studies program that is more orthodox than the rest of the theology department. For Major seminary I have heard Denver has a good one.
 
Thanks guys for the references! I will be checking those out as soon as possible. In the meantime, support your local orthodox priests! If they aren’t so orthodox…don’t support them as much (well I guess not financially but its always good to support them in prayer) 👍
 
Nucatholic - From “Goodbye, Good Men”, :

Those dioceses that have a proven record of success - Arlington, Lincoln, Peoria, Wichita, Bridgeport, Omaha, Atlanta, Rockford, for starters - one common denominator is that these dioceses primarily, although not exclusively, send their seminarians to one particular seminary: Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg, Maryland.(NOT to be confused with Baltimore’s St. Mary’s which is often referred to as the “Pink Palace”!!)

Other successful seminaries listed: Holy Apostles College and Seminary in Cromwell, Connecticut and St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Overbrook, Pennsylvania

. Also - the North American College in Rome, known as the West Point for Catholic seminarians.
 
my cousin is in the Catholic studies program at St Thomas in St Paul MN and she just loves it. Moreau Seminary at Notre Dame is good too - the CSC is a very solid order.
 
NuCatholic, also check out the Archdiocean Seminary for the St. Louis archdiocese, and it will only get better with Abp. Burke at the helm now.

Also NuCatholic, if you want to go in the direction of a regligous order, check out the Eastren Province of the Dominicans, their house of learning is in Washington DC.
 
😃 I’m surprised my parish isn’t on the list! We have a few gay members who participate in various parts of the church, from Knights of Columbus to RICA to singing with the choir … I’m glad they’re there. I’m glad they feel welcome in the house of God, I’m absolutely certain he’d want us to welcome ALL people in his name.
 
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Mjohn1453:
Joan of Arc is constantly a thorn in the foot of our bishop. Take a look at their website…its crazy???

Here is their mission statement. Is the word “Catholic” missing from there intentionally?

stjoan.com/default2.htm
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I just visited the web site. What a sorry state of affairs. The Bishop should just close the place down, clean it out, and reopen the parish when a new, orthodox pastor can be appointed.

Micki
 
Homosexuals should not be welcome in any parish if they are obstinate and disent from the teachings of the church. By default they separate themselves by their sinful nature and are headed down the wrong road -sins of the flesh get more people into hell than any other. ON the other hand, i think we should reach out to them to bring them back into the fold. No homosexual is happy as they are dead in sin. It’s a touchy subject and I don’t think I’d trust any gay outreach programs or gay friendly parishes. Sounds like they are places where they are looking for total acceptance. I would try to bring them back to the church on an individual basis as a friend.
 
praise god, i feel that archbishop chaput should do a declaration similar to that in the Denver Archdiocese

-iam glad that the church i attend is not on that list,

iam not anti-gay, but i feel that homosexuals are called to live a chaste life according to church teachings.

iam very grateful that my parish has Father Joe Hartmann who is an orthodox pastor
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deogratias:
I think those in the Phoenix Diocese will soon be off that list. Our New Bishop has been very aggressive on that matter.

Following is the text of the letter sent by Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted to the nine Catholic priests who signed their support to the “No Longer Silent Phoenix Declaration.”

diocesephoenix.org/pressRoom/may5b.htm

He wrote this very excellent 3 part column on living a Chaste Life also which addresses the homosexual and chastity

diocesephoenix.org/pressRoom/may5.htm

diocesephoenix.org/pressRoom/may18.htm

diocesephoenix.org/pressRoom/jun3.htm
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I have always considered Bishop Chaput to be pretty orthodox and now you in Colroado also have Bishop Sheridan in the Colorado Springs, Diocese. And we have Bishop Olmsted and there are a few other “new” Bishops that are taking the high road as well. Things are looking up. Keep praying for all our priests and Bishops - it is the best thing we can do for them and for us all.
 
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nucatholic:
Hearing all this about seminary is really scary. I myself am considering the priesthood and it would be very discouraging to see that going on. I think if I was in seminary and someone was openly gay or openly supporting the gay/lesbian agenda I’d flip a lid and go straight to the bishop. How can this happen? Are we going to let professing murderers and theives become priests as well?
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I posted this in a thread about the seminary…
My brother entered the seminary here in NEOhio in 1995. During that first year, my brother was approached by another first year seminarian and the other guy, ‘came out to him’. To say the least, my brother was taken back by the advance. I trust my brother DID NOT take it any further. (From what my brother told me, the other seminarian left the seminary to go into another order other than Diocesian).

I just pray that the legisiation toward sexual abuses is firmly in place in our seminaries.

go with God!
Edwin
 
What most here seem to be missing out on is the fact that there is a difference between homosexual orientation, and homosexual acts.

I think that all parishes should be very welcoming to homosexuals who are striving to live chaste lives.

Pushing them out, snubbing them just pushes them into the arms of those who think that homosexual acts are just fine and not sinful, or into atheism, wicca, paganism, which is where a lot of Catholic Gays end up.

There is an entire denomination called the Metropolitan Community Church, that teaches that homosexual acts are morally equivalent to heterosexual acts. Is this where you would prefer that homosexaul in orientation, but not action end up?
 
I’m quite surprised my parish didn’t make the list. We’re as “gay friendly” as a parish can be.

We will happily provide all the prayer, love and support necessary for a gay person to leave a sinful life and accept God’s call to a celibate lifestyle. In this way the gay person can leave mortal sin behind, accept God’s plan for them and begin a path to everlasting Life.

What could possibly be more gay friendly than that??? 👍

Believe it or not, I’ve actually seen parishes that dislike gays so much that they actually encourage a self destructive lifestyle. That is so incredibly un-Christian it’s beyond words. :eek:
 
I know this is an old thread, but I just came across it while I was searching for something else and since my parish is on this list I thought I’d chime in. The site lists churches that are “gay-friendly” but I’m not sure that is the right term for my church. It is certaily “gay-welcoming”. It’s mentioned on their website and they have a ministery to the gay community as well as other lapsed Catholics in the area. I think this makes sense considering that they are right smack dab in the gay community of West Hollywood. They hold an AIDS mass twice a year and they have an AIDS chapel. However, while I have only been there a couple of months I have never heard ANYTHING from the pulpit that actively promotos homosexuality or is counter to church teaching. As a matter of fact, when I was at Mass this Sunday the homily was about the necessity of going for Confession and “sinful lifestyles” were mentioned at some point. Now, I’m straight myself, so maybe I’m jumping to conclusions, but I’ve always considered “lifestyle” a codeword for homosexuality.

In fact, I have to say that my parish is one of the best and most reverent parishes I’ve found in my area. We have a Gregorian chant Mass on Saturday nights, a Choral Mass on Sunday morning, most people take communion on the tongue kneeling at the altar rail and the female EMHC’s do nothing more than hold the patan. People don’t hold hands during the Our Father and most of them don’t pray it in the Orans position either (there is always someone at Mass mimicing the priest, but this seems to be the case everywhere and I chalk it up to the fact that some people are just odd). After the Agnes Dei, everyone goes back to their knees. During communion at most of the Masses I’ve been to there a second priest comes out to help distribute Communion and only at very busy Masses will they have an acolyte (fully vested) distributing communion as well. I’ve also never heard anything stupid or contrary to Catholic teaching from the pulpit.

Now I have no idea whether people who are actively engaging in homosexual acts are going to Communion or what gets said during the Confessional, but quite frankly that is not my business and the only way I could know is if I started quizzing people about their sex life.

It seems to me that my parish is doing something profound for the community in which it resides in actively pursuing fallen away Catholics of both the hetero and homosexual variety.

If you are ever in Los Angeles, I hope you’ll attend a Mass at St. Victor’s in West Hollywood.
 
Every church is friendly to sinners. No need for any special treatment for special problems.

Every church loves the sinner and hates the sin.
 
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buffalo:
Every church is friendly to sinners. No need for any special treatment for special problems.

Every church loves the sinner and hates the sin.
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I think the truth of that is debatable, but even if it is true most churches also have ministries within the church. My church happens to have a ministry concerned with bringing lapsed Catholics back home, with a particular emphasis on gay lapsed Catholics. We also have a Legion of Mary and the St Vincent De Paul Society, programs to feed and minister to the homeless, and a ministry to bring the Eucharist to the sick and the dying. And I’m sure there are some others I’ve forgotten. Everyone gets special treatment because we are all special.
 
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Mjohn1453:
Joan of Arc is constantly a thorn in the foot of our bishop. Take a look at their website…its crazy???

Here is their mission statement. Is the word “Catholic” missing from there intentionally?

stjoan.com/default2.htm
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I just spent a long time looking at this very professional website. It is clear your parish is very active and quite educated. I never did find a link to “Right to Life”, but was shocked to see the Gay and Lesbian inclusion so spelled out. They have many activities just designed to make them a group within your parish.

I am just stunned. I don’t know quite how to put this, but I didn’t even know parishes like this existed. I used to live in Minnesota, and at that time I never realized it was such a liberal place. I guess it was in my more liberal youth.

I will pray for you. Are there other people there that aren’t happy with that type of parish? Just wondering why you even stay. I don’t think I could.
 
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