Newsletters-2006

The Fortunate Families newsletter is published 8 to 10 times yearly. It includes up-to-date news concerning lesbian and gay Catholics and their parents, thought-provoking articles, stories from parents and others, and a calendar of events. 

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December 2006

• Letters to bishops offering dialogue

• Stay the Course? - Commonweal editorial

• Parents Voice Project Survey News - data summary

• Epiphany on Brokeback Mountain - time for an Epiphany?

• Emmaus Retreat presentation - a father’s reflection

• Open letter to Bishop Morlino - from people in his Madison (WI) Diocese

• Milwaukee Priests Alliance statement - concerning ballot initiatives

• Vatican Considers the "Lesser of Two Evils" - from Michael Bayly’s Blog

• Tolerance at schools may help stem the ‘brain drain’ - impact of gay teachers as role models

November 2006

• Dear Bishop...Letters...edited

• Message to Fortunate Families readers

• Feedback--excerpts

• NACDLGM statement

October 2006

• Parents: Questions for your Bishop

• Press release from the USCCB: 'Guidelines for Ministry to Persons with Homosexual Inclination on Catholic Bishops’

• Letter to a bishop

• A special note to parents

• Parents Voice Project Note # 1

September 2006

• Parents Voice Project Survey Update

• Kidnapped in Iraq: The Closet or Death

• Extending family

• New Ways Ministry Symposium

August 2006

• Parents Voice Project Survey News

• NACDLGM Conference – 2006

• Emmaus: 2006

• Out and Proud

• A Reality Check

• Editorial Note to press: Being Christian is not anti-gay

• Pity the Bigots

July 2006

• Group challenges ban on gay men as priests

• To Welcome a Child: Gay Couples and Adoption

• Open letter to Cardinal O’Malley and MA Bishops

• Detroit project puts a face on gay Catholics

• Seeing with Heart—Toronto 2006

June 2006

• Parents Voice Project

• Always Our Children: Hope amongst the mixed messages

• Gay Clergy: Brothers, Display Those Candles!

• The Good Shepherd of Brokeback Mountain

• Catholics can “firmly agitate” within the church

April 2006

• Gay adoption – reader feedback excerpts

• Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute report

• Women 1, Boys 0

• In the Dark about Gays

• NACDLGM Conference

March 2006

• Gay adoption – your thoughts? / Background

• MA bishops on adoption

• Vatican CDF on gay adoption

• Curran on public policy and gay, lesbian unions

• Info in support of gay adoption

• Adopting ‘gravely immoral’ ideologies

• It’s about public policy

• Quebec priests open letter

• NACDLGM Conference

February 2006

• Why this gay Roman Catholic stays in church

• Comments on Papal encyclical on love

• Pope comes out in favor of gay marriage -- almost

• Celibate gay priest resigns as chaplain

• Fish pin ministry

• Mama

• Acceptance of gay son

• We’re 501(c)(3)!