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US priests' association wants to focus on formation Fr. Bryan Massingale, left, and Bishop Gregory Hartmayer, right, addressed the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests in Atlanta, June 19-22. (Paul Leingang) A liturgical dancer is seen at the Mass presided over by Atlanta Archbishop Wilton Gregory. (Paul Leingang) 12 PreviousNext Jeannine Gramick  |  Jun. 28, 2017 66Share PrintemailPDF Atlanta "All means all — no exceptions, no small print. God loves all of us, whatever our differences," Fr. Bryan Massingale said as he recalled the anniversary of the Orlando massacre of LGBT people in the Pulse nightclub a year ago. Amid...

The distinguished canonist Ed Peters weighs in on what Sr. Jeannine Gramick did.She signed a public letter asking the most pro-abortion President we have ever seen, Pres. Obama, to work to expand abortion throughout the world. HERE The best defense is no offense by Dr. Edward Peters Athletes often quip that “the best defense is a good offense” meaning that, if one scores more points than does the other side, what does it matter how many points the other side scores? I’d like to offer a canonical variant on that: “the best defense is no offense” meaning that, if ecclesiastical...

In a debate on acceptance of same-sex marriage, Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, remarked on the media bias in coverage of issues involving homosexuality. Speaking to an audience in Arizona, Bishop Paprocki said that a woman who worked at a parish where he had served in Illinois was killed because of her defense of Church teachings on homosexuality. Mary Stachowicz, a part-time parish secretary, was beaten, stabbed, and strangled by a man who resented her efforts to persuade him to avoid homosexual acts. “Mary’s murder was widely ignored by the media, despite the fact that she died as a...

In what is being acknowledged even by liberal Catholics as a courageous move, Springfield, IL Bishop Thomas Paprocki debated dissident nun Sr. Jeannine Gramick on the topic of gay “marriage” before a decidedly gay-friendly crowd on Friday. In a shocking revelation in his opening remarks, the bishop told the crowd that his former secretary was brutally murdered by a gay activist simply for suggesting that he change his lifestyle. Heckling and insults from the crowd and were expected and received as the bishop lay out the argument in favor of traditional marriage, after which he concluded, “some of you may...

Several months ago, the ‘Arcus Foundation,’ a radical pro-homosexualist lobby (Arcus meaning rainbow), donated several hundred thousand dollars to fund seminars at various “catholic’ colleges with the express intent of trying to shape Catholic thought on the issue of homosexuality. In short, they are trying to “peel away” as many Catholics as possible from the authentic dogma of the Church, and have unfortunately found willing accomplices at a number of ‘catholic’ universities. To give you a feel for the direction these seminars take, TFP has a report regarding the upcoming seminar at Fairfield University which will be a part of...

NEWS: August 19, 2003 Bird’s Eye View of the News Atila Sinke Guimarães RATZINGER, A TOOTHLESS LION - For the last 20 years Sr. Jeannine Gramick, SSND, and Fr. Robert Nugent, SDS, have been two leading American religious stars in the Catholic “ministry” with gays and lesbians. Their innovative progressivist positions on the topic have generated a lot of publicity, so I don’t need to remind my reader who they are. On July 13, 1999 the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued to both Sr. Gramick and Fr. Nugent a formal condemnation along with a permanent prohibition to...