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1. New Ways Ministry describes itself as "a gay-positive ministry of advocacy and justice for lesbian and gay Catholics…” It sounds compassionate towards those who carry the cross of same-sex attraction while desiring to live chaste lives as faithful Catholics.
   
   How does this purpose fit with New Ways’ executive director Francis DeBernardo’s March 2009 appearance before a Maryland House of Delegates committee to testify against a proposed constitutional amendment that would have limited marriage to a man and woman and in favor of the Religious Freedom & Civil Marriage Protection Act, which would have given same-sex couples the right to marry? It doesn’t at all.
   
   Cardinal Francis George rightly chose to denounce New Ways Ministry for its criticism of Catholic efforts to defend man-woman marriage. His Eminence spoke the truth when he stated New Ways does not offer "an authentic interpretation of Catholic teaching."
   
   New Ways Ministry could truly help those with same-sex attraction enormously by referring them to Sections 2357-2359 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Here they will find compassion, consolation and the truth to live, with the grace of God, an authentic Catholic life according to their state in life.
   

   Posted By: Jim Connolly

2. This a very serious accusation by Cardinal George, especially in light of recent accusations against John Carr, CCHD and the USCCB. John (who could not be more faithful to Catholic teaching) asks why he was not contacted before the accusations became public. I guess it only works one way with the bishops, i.e. the document about Reiki.

   Posted By: Mary from CT

3. USCCB President Cardinal George’s statement opposing New Ways Ministry is as disingenuous as NWM’s claim that it supports Catholic sexual morality. As documented in my book, The Rite of Sodomy, New Ways is only incidentally religious, i.e., it uses religion solely for the political ends of the Homosexual Collective within and without the Church. Yet it has never lacked for support from the American hierarchy including Bishops Gumbleton, Sullivan (Walter), Clark, Povish, McRaith, Costello (Thomas), Buswell, Symons, Untener, Weakland, Quinn (Francis), Wuerl, Mattheisen, O’Keefe, Imesch, McNamara, Hughes, Morneau, Lucker, Friend, Cummins, Murphy (Francis), Rodimer and Rosazza. NWM could never have survived without the active support of the Salvatorians, the School Sisters of Notre Dame, and numerous other Catholic religious orders. The NCCB/USCC (USCCB) of “The Many Faces of AIDS” fame, has long been the object of clerical homosexual colonization and has worked closely with NWM in the past. NWM Exec. Director Francis DeBernardo himself was a reporter for The Tablet, the diocesan paper of the Brooklyn Diocese. Finally, why does Cardinal George claim that the CDF put Sr.Gramick out of commission when she continues her pro-lesbian/homosex propaganda under the auspices of the Sisters of Loretto and their “Gay Ministry Fund?” PS For the record, the USCCB statement is not only misleading, it’s also 32 years too late.

   Posted By: Randy Engel

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