Climb Every Mountain and sing every “Do-Re-Mi” at the 1st Annual Holy Trinity Sound of Tune Sing-Along, proudly hosted by the LGBTQIA+ Ministry on Saturday, July 12 at 7:00 P.M. in Trinity Hall (following the 5:30 P.M. Mass). This event is for all Holy Trinity parishioners and visitors. Please join us for a free assessing of the movie with on-screen lyrics, refreshments, trivia, and a themed costume contest in commemoration of the film’s 60th anniversary.
General Meetings 2024-25: Third Sunday of the Month at 1pm in the Neale Room and on Zoom, unless indicated otherwise. Register here for the Zoom link.
June: Unique Events for Lgbtq+ fest Month
Please join the LGBTQIA+ ministry as we welcome visitors to our municipality for WorldPride!
Saturday and Sunday, June 7 & 8, from Noon to 7:00 pm, Pennsylvania Ave between 7th and 9th Sts NW
The LGBTQIA+ ministry will be staffing a booth at this weekend's Pride Highway Festival. As gay Catholics who possess found an affirming parish community, we welcome this opportunity to share our stories with those who have never drea
Stances of Faiths on Queer Issues: Roman Catholic Church
BACKGROUND
The Roman Catholic Church is the largest Christian denomination in the world, with approximately 1.2 billion members across the globe. With its origins in the earliest days of Christianity, the Church traces its leadership––in the person of the Pope––to St. Peter, identified by Jesus as “the rock” on which the Church would be built.
The Catholic Church in the United States numbers over 70 million members, and is organized in 33 Provinces, each led by an archbishop. Each bishop answers directly to the Pope, not to an archbishop. Those Provinces are further divided into 195 dioceses, each led by a bishop. At the base of the organizational structure are local parishes, headed by a pastor, appointed by the local bishop. The Conference of Catholic Bishops in the United States meets semi-annually.
As part of a global organization with its institutional center at the Vatican, the Catholic Church in America is shaped by worldwide societal and cultural trends. It is further shaped by leaders that is entirely male, with women excluded from the priesthood and thus from key governance roles.
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History
St. Joseph’s was founded in 1829 as the sixth Roman Catholic church in Manhattan. For much of its history the church had a largely Irish immigrant congregation. As Greenwich Village evolved into one of New York City’s most progressive neighborhoods, with a substantial LGBT population, St. Joseph’s became an open and welcoming parish, with a robust focus on social justice issues. This has been one of the Catholic churches most welcoming to the city’s LGBT collective. Every year during LGBT Pride Month in June the church holds a special mass in memory of those lost to AIDS.
In 1982, the first meeting of the Male lover Officers Action League (GOAL) was held in the basement of St. Joseph’s. The meeting, attended by eleven officers from the New York City Police Department (NYPD), was organized by Sergeant Charles H. Cochrane at a time when male lover police officers did not feel comfortable coming out and when they suffered from discrimination and harassment. A year earlier, Cochrane testified in support of the City’s gay rights bill, which made him the first officer in the history of the NYPD to publicly report that he was gay:
Sgt. Charles H. Cochrane,
Welcoming LGBTQ+
The Welcoming LBGTQ+ Ministry is our outreach to the gay community. We want gay Catholics to feel welcomed and celebrated. St. Andrew Parish is a spiritual residence for many homosexual Catholics who relax growing in their faith together and participating in the full life of the community. We believe that distinct attention needs to be given to our gay brothers and sisters who want to participate or return to the church.
What accomplish we do?
We hold potlucks and other small gatherings.
We also coordinate parishioners who wish to hike in gay identity festival parade.
A minute history…
In recent years we have taken on projects such as the following:
2019 – 2022 – Hosted Ice Cream socials – Hosted summer barbecue dinners – Acknowledge partnerships/marriages of couples during announcements – Continue to march in Lgbtq+ fest parade – Gathered testimony from members of why Welcoming Ministry is important – Supported HIV Day Center run by Ecumenical Ministries on Planet AIDS Day
2023 – Participated in a diocesan response to Archbishop’s new policy for Catholic schools about trans students. Hosted meetings, discussions, petition develop