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NEWS FLASHES

Dignity Convention
   Convention 2013 will be in Minneapolis on July 4-7. Click for info and/or registration; and click to see chapter ad in program booklet for Convention.

Open Letter
   DignityUSA wrote an Open Letter in the NY Times to respond to a recent statement by Cardinal Dolan about LGBT persons.

Report in Dateline    Read the report on the visit to our area by a DignityUSA rep.

Vatican Spring
   Swiss Theologican Hans Kung is speaking out for Church reform as a conclave to elect a new Pope started.

Records for IRS
   Click here to read (at pp 18-20); and here for summary.

Membership Application
   To download a new- member application, click here.

Board Meetings
   Generally the chapter Board meets at 3:30 pm on the first Sunday each month; but check calendar to be sure.

Sunday Liturgy
   The chapter Sunday Mass is celebrated at 5:30 pm each week at Dignity Center; click on Map in banner above.

WELCOME TO DIGNITY

Dignity/LA is an independent lay organization that seeks to reform the Catholic Church and society in general, mainly on issues regarding the sexuality of gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, and transgender (GLBT) persons, and also to minister to the spiritual (and other) needs of GLBT persons.  We are an affiliate of Dignity/USA, which is a nationwide organization with scores of chapters (including several such chapters in California, four of them located in southern California) and thousands of members.

Dignity/LA has the unique distinction of being the founding chapter of Dignity/USA.  In 1969, a group of Catholics began to meet to discuss GLBT issues and to celebrate Mass. We took a statement of the then only recently completed Second Vatican Council (quote is in the box at the right) as our inspiration in the choice of a name for our organization. In only a very few years, the organization had developed into the high-profile nationwide advocate for all GLBT persons that Dignity is today.

During most of the pontificate of Pope John Paul II (1978-2005), Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) served as enforcer of orthodox doctrine. Ironically, however, he had long ago vigorously defended (see quote in the box to the right) the primacy of conscience, even in the face of the contrary demands of the Pope or other church authority.

We urge you to get to know Dignity/LA better. We invite you (and bring a friend also, if you can) to attend one of the chapter's regular liturgies on Sundays at 5:30 pm (click for an index to photos) at Dignity Center and the fellowship (i.e. a social) that follows the liturgy. Click for a map (equipped with a zoom-in/out feature) and for directions. In the meantime, please do explore further on this website to learn more About Us. Anything that is underlined (in the text of any page of this website or in the two rows just below the banner at the top of each page of this website) links to more information, on this website (or elsewhere): just click on it to go there.


Bienvenidos:  Para una introdución a Dignity en español, click aquí; y para mas, aquí.

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