Jeannine Gramick

Loretto Sr. Jeannine Gramick is the co-founder, with Fr. Robert Nugent, of New Ways Ministry, a social justice center that educates and advocates for justice and equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) Catholics, and reconciliation within the larger church and civil communities. You can visit New Ways Ministry at https://www.newwaysministry.org.

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Loretto Sister Jeannine Gramick, seen in this 2001 file photo, and Pope Francis, are seen in this composite photo. (CNS composite; photos by Nancy Wiechec and Paul Haring)

After Vatican text, pope tells Jeannine Gramick: Trans people 'must be accepted'

Loretto Sr. Jeannine Gramick recently wrote to Pope Francis to express disappointment with a new Vatican document that condemned "gender ideology." Francis told Gramick: "Transgender people must be accepted and integrated into society."

Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus carry the cross in a detail from the Fifth Station of the Cross at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fátima in Portugal. (Wikimedia Commons/Therese C)

Carry your cross through a blanket of fog

We are all Simon of Cyrene, writes Sr. Jeannine Gramick. We're asked to carry a huge, splinter-filled cross and we don't know why. We don't know where we're going. But when we trust, we're not lost.

Holy innocents and holy friendships

Stories we may not want to hear

A call to love and to speak

Robert F. Kennedy's Gospel example

Ministry on the gender margins

LGBT people: 'Sisters are on our side!'

Called to embrace the other

Cuba, land of the old and the new

Stand together against homophobia and transphobia

Women's liturgical role: lessons to be learned

To achieve sustainable prosperity, we need to bring the moderates

Peacemaking in Ireland

My big, fat Polish Christmas

Advent mercy

My Thanksgiving prayer

My week with Pope Francis

A case of secrecy and self-silencing

Women’s ordination: Can we be public?