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Jeannine Gramick, S.L., (born 1942) is a Roman Catholic religious sister and advocate for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights as a co-founder of New Ways Ministry. ==Career and Ministry== Sr. Jeannine was born to a Polish Roman Catholic family in Philadelphia, and attended Catholic grade and high schools. She moved to Baltimore in 1960 to join the School Sisters of Notre Dame, teaching high school mathematics through the 1960s. Later, she was an associate professor of mathematics at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland in the early 1970s.〔("CoFounders", New Ways Ministry )〕 Having graduated in 1969 with an M.Sc. degree from the University of Notre Dame, Sr. Jeannine completed a Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania, obtained in 1975.〔(The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Religious Archives Network )〕 She began three chapters of Dignity USA in Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia, as well as the Conference for Catholic Lesbians.Sr. Jeannine co-founded New Ways Ministry with Fr. Robert Nugent, which is a Catholic LGBT-positive ministry of justice and advocacy in the Catholic Church and civil society. Many publications written and edited by Sr. Jeannine explain further on her positions and ministry, including "Homosexuality and the Catholic Church," "Homosexuality in the Priesthood and Religious Life," "The Vatican and Homosexuality," and "Voices of Hope: A Collection of Positive Catholic Writings on Lesbian/Gay Issues." She is the co-author with Fr. Robert Nugent of "Building Bridges: Gay and Lesbian Reality and the Catholic Church,".〔 "Building Bridges" was translated into Italian and published as "Anime Gay: Gli omosessuali e la Chiesa cattolica" (Editori Riuniti, Rome, 2003).〔 She has served on the boards of the National Assembly of Women Religious, the Religious Network of Equality for Women, the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, the Women's Ordination Conference and the National Coalition of American Nuns. The documentary film ''In Good Conscience: Sister Jeannine Gramick's Journey of Faith'', by Barbara Rick, details Sr. Jeannine's decades of ministry with the LGBT community and controversies with the Vatican. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jeannine Gramick」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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