Jeannine Gramick

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Jeannine Gramick (* 1942 in Philadelphia ) is a Roman Catholic religious sister and co-founder of the New Ways Ministry organization .

Life

Jeannine Gramick was born to a Polish Roman Catholic family in Philadelphia , where she attended Catholic schools and colleges. She moved to Baltimore in 1960 and joined the Congregation for the Poor School Sisters of Notre Dame . In the early 1970s she was an Associate Professor of Mathematics at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland . Sr. Jeannine graduated with an M.Sc. from the University of Notre Dame and later earned a Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania .

During this time she got to know a gay man on a friendly basis and began to offer pastoral care for lesbian and gay people. She organized services for people with homosexual orientation who had left the Catholic Church because they rejected their church's stance on homosexuality. In her work she began to approach these retired people with love and devotion and to convey that the Catholic Church continues to invite them as church members. In the following period, Gramick also helped three organizations that addressed LGBT people who remained Catholic . She also became a co-founder of the New Ways Ministry organization .

In the years that followed, Gramick traveled to various groups and spoke to them about the different sexual orientations of people. She shared the American Psychiatric Association's stance that homosexuality is not a disease. She consistently led further dialogues, discussions and education in order to break down prejudices and stereotypes about LGBT people. As a lawyer, she campaigned for the acceptance of homosexual people with full and equal rights as members in religious, civil and social groups. She maintains that only if all people are treated with equal dignity and respect can peace and harmony worldwide be achieved.

She was supported by the Order of the Poor School Sisters of Our Lady for around 20 years during her engagement and service in the 1980s and 1990s. Due to opposition to her work by ultra-conservative Christians and ongoing political defamation in the church, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith declared in 1999 that Sr. Jeannine, as a religious, should no longer engage in pastoral work with LGBT people. In 2000 the Congregation of the Poor School Sisters ordered that Gramick, as a religious , should stop speaking in public about the issue of homosexuality in order to avoid a deeper conflict with the Vatican .

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Sr. Jeannine stated: “I choose not to collaborate in my own oppression by restricting a basic human right [to speak]. To me this is a matter of conscience. ”In 2001 Sr. Jeannine left the poor school sisters and joined the Sisters of Loretto , whose leadership Sr. Jeannine supports in her educational work and pastoral care for homosexual Catholics.

Many groups have recognized and recognized the work of Sr. Jeannine over the past decades. These groups include the National Coalition of American Nuns , the Loretto Community , the Paulist Community , the Call to Action organization, the DignityUSA organization , the leadership of the University of Notre Dame and Saint Mary's College , Pridefest America , the organization Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays and the American Psychological Association . She received the Santa Claus Foundation Peace Prize in Turkey for her work with sexual minorities. Sr. Jeannine was honored with the International Mother Teresa Award in 2006 as a human rights activist for her work .

Sr. Jeannine has also served on the boards of the National Assembly of Women Religious, the Religious Network of Equality for Women , Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, and the Women's Ordination Conference . She currently serves on the board of directors of the National Coalition of American Nuns .

Sr. Jeannine's work is the subject of the documentary In Good Conscience: Sister Jeannine Gramick's Journey of Faith . The film was directed by Barbara Rick , who won the Peabody Award and Emmy Award .

Works (selection)

Among others, the following books have been published by Sr. Jeannine Grammick:

  • Homosexuality and the Catholic Church. Thomas More Press, Chicago, Ill. 1983, ISBN 0883471493 .
  • Homosexuality in the Priesthood and Religious Life. Crossroad, New York 1989, ISBN 0824509633 .
  • The Vatican and homosexuality: reactions to the "Letter to the bishops of the Catholic Church on the pastoral care of homosexual persons". Crossroad, New York 1988, ISBN 0824508645 .
  • Building Bridges: Gay and Lesbian Reality and the Catholic Church. Twenty-Third Publications, Mystic, Conn. 1992, ISBN 0896225038 .
  • Voices of Hope: A Collection of Positive Catholic Writings on Lesbian / Gay Issues. Center for Homophobia Education, New York 1995, ISBN 0935877010 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Howell Williams: Homosexuality and the American Catholic Church: Reconfiguring the Silence, 1971-1999 . ProQuest, 2007, ISBN 978-0-549-46947-6 , pp. 30 ff .
  2. ^ Jeannine Gramick, New Ways Ministry , accessed April 29, 2019
  3. ^ The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Religious Archives Network
  4. ↑ Notification of the CDF, May 31, 1999
  5. ^ Paul Collins: From Inquisition to Freedom: Seven Prominent Catholics and Their Struggle with the Vatican. Continuum, New York 2001, ISBN 0-8264-5415-1 , p. Xii ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  6. ^ "Catholic Gay Group to Honor Nun, Priest Silenced by the Vatican," Dignity , May 16, 2001
  7. ↑ Ingoodconscience . Movie website.
personal data
SURNAME Gramick, Jeannine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American nun
DATE OF BIRTH 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia