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Fr. Bob Nugent, silenced for his work with gay Catholics, dies at 76
http://ncronline.org/news/people/fr-bob-nugent-silenced-his-work-gay-catholics-dies-76Fr. Bob Nugent, silenced for his work with gay Catholics, dies at 76
Washington--
Fr. Robert Nugent, a Roman Catholic priest silenced by the Vatican for his work with gay and lesbian Catholics, died Wednesday after a three-month battle with cancer. He was 76...
Nugent, a member of the Salvatorians religious order, co-founded the Maryland-based New Ways Ministry in 1977 with Sr. Jeannine Gramick to build bridges between the gay community and the Catholic church. Their activities drew repeated condemnation from U.S. Catholic leaders in the 1980s...
...But two years later, after the Vatican ruled that Gramick and Nugent's work was "erroneous and dangerous," Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) permanently banned Nugent and Gramick from working with the gay and lesbian community, saying their pro-gay work had "caused confusion among the Catholic people and have harmed the community of the church."
The pair were cited for refusing to accept church teaching on the "intrinsic evil of homosexual acts," and Nugent was condemned for questioning "the definitive and unchangeable nature of Catholic doctrine in this area."....
