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.

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Jun 06, 2025

Sr. Jeannine Gramick: What Daddy taught me about unconditional love

"My father would sporadically tell me, "You can always come home, you know. The door is always open," she writes.

Loretto Sister Jeannine Gramick, seen in this 2001 file photo, and Pope Francis, are seen in this composite photo. (CNS composite; photos by Nancy Wiechec and Paul Haring)

May 01, 2024

After Vatican text, pope tells Jeannine Gramick: Trans people 'must be accepted'

Loretto Sr. Jeannine Gramick recently wrote to Pope Francis to express disappointment with a new Vatican document that condemned "gender ideology." Francis told Gramick: "Transgender people must be accepted and integrated into society."

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.

Pope Francis answers questions from journalists aboard the flight from Juba, South Sudan, to Rome Feb. 5. (CNS/Paul Haring)

Feb 27, 2023

Pope Francis has condemned LGBTQ criminalization. Now what?

Sr. Jeannine Gramick, a longtime advocate for LGBTQ persons in the church, is grateful for the pope's call for decriminalization of homosexuality. She also has ideas for further changes the church can make.

"In this new wasteland, I came to know myself more deeply." (Unsplash/Ryan Cheng)

Mar 05, 2022

A long time with Jesus in the wilderness

Soul Seeing: Pope Francis' letters are like the soothing hand of a friend who has reached out to heal my wounds and lead me out of a long and barren wasteland.