Rev. Gerard Thomas, a pseudonym for a gay U.S. priest, wrote “A Gay Priest Speaks Out” in  2005.

Read a July 10, 2012 article from the Huffington Post about a book a gay priest wrote revealing he’s married and non-celibate.

Read a June 12, 2012, article from the Huffington Post about a gay priest’s support of same-sex marriage.

Read an article posted on U.S. Catholic chronicling a priest’s experience coming out.

Read “Thou shalt not allow homosexuals to become Catholic priests,” an Oct. 2, 2005, New York Daily News opinion piece by the Rev. John Trigilio Jr., president of the Confraternity of Catholic Clergy and co-author of Catholicism for Dummies (For Dummies, 2003).

Read an April 9, 2013, article posted on the National Catholic Reporter blog about a gay priest being asked to halt his ministry.

Joe Maher is the founder of Opus Bono Sacerdotii (“work for the good of the priesthood”), a Mississippi lay group that defends the rights of priests accused of sexual misconduct. It assists priests and religious in crisis through a network of confidential experts in various fields.

Sister Jeannine Gramick was ordered to stop ministering to homosexuals by then-Cardinal Ratzinger in 1999. She has defied Vatican orders to cease her ministry to gay and lesbian Catholics. Contact her through the organization she co-founded, New Ways Ministry, in Mount Rainier, Md.

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