The auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Detroit spent the vast majority of his public life 'scandalizing souls and attacking the immutable teachings of the Catholic faith.'
More than a dozen prelates, including heterodox Kentucky Bishop John Stowe, joined the New Ways Ministry event, though the bishop who oversaw the USCCB’s condemnation of transgender surgeries wasn’t invited.
DignityUSA, New Ways Ministry, Fr. James Martin and other LGBT groups believe Pope Francis' actions will open the door to the recognition of same-sex 'marriage.'
Francis again met with LGBT activists on Wednesday, including Marianne Duddy-Burke, the pro-transgender head of DignityUSA, which works to change Catholic teaching on homosexuality and gender.
Pope Francis' meeting with Sr. Gramick was hailed by her own New Ways Ministry as a mark of support for her decades of anti-Catholic, pro-LGBT activism.
Dr. Brian Flanagan – a professor at 'Catholic' Marymount University located in the Diocese of Arlington – openly admits that he is 'married' to another man and publicly broadcasts his homosexual activism. Flanagan will replace Cardinal Louis Tagle as the keynote speaker for the heretical Association of US Catholic Priests, due to a scheduling conflict on the part of the prominent cardinal.
Sr. Jeannine Gramick argued that Catholic teaching condemning homosexual acts as 'intrinsically disordered' will 'inevitably change,' and that to think it would not change was 'simply wrong.'
'There needs to be a dialog on the rights of shared life between people of the same sex who decide to live together. They need legal support from society," Archbishop Leonardo Steiner said in a 2014 interview.