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1986 Doctrine

Declaration of Non-Reception of the Pastoral Letter on the Care of Homosexual Persons

We, the members of DignityUSA, an association of faithful Lesbian and Gay Roman Catholics, their families and friends, assembled on this 23rd day of July, 1987, are returning to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, "The Pastoral Letter on the Care of Homosexual Persons" issued in October, 1986, as being pastorally inadequate to meet their needs of American Gay and Lesbian Catholics, their families and friends.

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Letter on Pastoral Care of Gay and Lesbian Persons

DignityUSA's response to the Vatican's Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons of October, 1986.

This document was approved by the DignityUSA House of Delegates in Miami, July, 1987

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Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons

Given at Rome, 1 October 1986.

1. The issue of homosexuality and the moral evaluation of homosexual acts have increasingly become a matter of public debate, even in Catholic circles.

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