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.

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)

Jul 22, 2023

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.

Dec 27, 2018

Holy innocents and holy friendships

Nov 26, 2018

Stories we may not want to hear

Nov 06, 2018

A call to love and to speak

Aug 21, 2018

Robert F. Kennedy's Gospel example

Jun 14, 2018

Ministry on the gender margins

Jan 02, 2018

LGBT people: 'Sisters are on our side!'

Sep 06, 2017

Called to embrace the other

Jun 22, 2017

Cuba, land of the old and the new

May 15, 2017

Stand together against homophobia and transphobia

Jan 31, 2017

Women's liturgical role: lessons to be learned

Nov 17, 2016

To achieve sustainable prosperity, we need to bring the moderates

Jun 20, 2016

Peacemaking in Ireland

Jan 28, 2016

My big, fat Polish Christmas

Dec 15, 2015

Advent mercy

Nov 25, 2015

My Thanksgiving prayer

Oct 15, 2015

My week with Pope Francis

Jul 29, 2015

A case of secrecy and self-silencing

Jul 14, 2015

Women’s ordination: Can we be public?

May 07, 2015

This pope gives me hope