New Ways Ministry's upcoming Eighth National Symposium, "Justice and Mercy Shall Kiss: LGBT Catholics in the Age of Pope Francis," is scheduled for April 28-30, 2017, in Chicago.
More information can be found by clicking: www.symposium2017.org/ .
The weekend-long meeting gathers church leaders, ministers, educators, professional advocates, LGBT persons and their family friends for a weekend of education and dialogue.
We hope you will share the information about this event with people in your organization and social networks who are interested in LGBT faith issues—particularly with regard to the important role that the Catholic Church plays in these issues, for good or bad.. It would be great if someone from your organization could attend.
Our plenary speakers are
— Lisa Fullam, Associate Professor of Moral Theology at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley;
— Leslie C. Griffin, the William S. Boyd Professor of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas;
— Rev. Bryan Massingale, Professor of Theology at Fordham University, New York;
— Frank Mugisha, Executive Director of Sexual Minorities Uganda,
In addition, Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, Retired Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit, and Bishop John Stowe, OFM, Conv, Diocesan Bishop of Lexington, Kentucky, will be offering reflections and encouragement to the participants.
A pre-symposium retreat day will be led by Sister Simone Campbell, SSS, Executive Director of NETWORK, a Catholic social justice lobby organization.
Focus sessions will cover the following topics: Hispanic Catholic culture
and LGBT issues; youth/young adult ministry, and LGBT questions; gay men in the priesthood and religious life; lesbian nuns' gifts to the church; transgender and intersex identities and family life; LGBT parish ministry; and the challenges of LGBT church workers.
For more information and to learn how to register ( online or by postal mail ), visit the symposium website:
www.symposium2017.org/ .