aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Monday, October 31, 2005

Catholic hope

“It gives me hope,” said Ed Smith, 53, of Glen Burnie, MD:

With a message of humility, faith in times of suffering and God’s unconditional love, a bishop with the Archdiocese Of Baltimore celebrated Mass yesterday at a service devoted to gay and lesbian Catholics.

“As bishop, being here this afternoon in this community, I do so with genuine affection and gentleness to you,” Bishop Mitchell T. Rozanski, the eastern vicar, told those gathered at St. Bernadette Roman Catholic Church in Severn, a parish that has had a thriving gay and lesbian ministry since 1997.

Via Andrew Sullivan.