U.S. ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ Activist Website Provides List of 'gαy Friendly' Catholic Parishes
2/16/2005 - 6:00 AM PST

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BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA (Catholic Online) - A ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ activist website has produced a state by state listing of 'gαy friendly' Catholic parishes. Faithful Catholics who have seen the site suggest that it may make a good starting point for bishops concerned with dissent among the less faithful.

The full list of "gαy-friendly" Catholic parishes compiled by Conference for Catholic Lesbians, Inc. is reproduced here:

Alabama
St. Bede --Montgomery

Arizona
Christ the King --Mesa
Franciscan Renewal Center --Scotsdale
Sts. Peter and Paul, St. Pius X, Our Mother of Sorrows, St. Odilia --Tucson

California
St. Mark's University Parish --Coleta
St. Matthew's --Long Beach
Blessed Sacrament, Christ the King, Loyola-Marymount University, Mother of Good Counsel, Our Lady of the Assumption, St. Camillus Emaus, St. Dominic's, St. Jane Frances de Chantal, St. Paul the Apostle --Los Angeles
St. Francis --Sacramento
St. Charles --San Carlos
Christ the King, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart --Santa Clara
St. Didicus --San Diego
Most Holy Redeemer, Old St. Mary's Cathedral --San Francisco
Church of San Rafael & Mission San Rafael Archangel --San Rafael
Holy Cross --Santa Cruz
St. Monica's --Santa Monica
Santa Sophia --Spring Valley
St. Martha's --Valinda
St. Ambrose, St. Victor's --West Hollywood
St. Mary of the Assumption --Whittier

Colorado
St. Thomas --Boulder
St. Dominic's --Denver

Connecticut
St. Patrick-St. Anthony --Hartford

District of Columbia
Dahlgren Chapel of Georgetown University, St. Aloysius

Florida
St. Augustine --Casselberry
St. Anthony, St. Maurice --Ft. Lauderdale
St. Matthew --Winterhaven

Georgia
Shrine of the Immaculate Conception --Atlanta

Illinois
St. Mary of Celle --Berwyn
St. Clement, St. Gertrude --Chicago
St. Margaret Mary --Naperville
Queen of Peace --North Chicago

Indiana
St. Mary --Evansville

Kentucky
Epiphany, Cathedral of the Assumption, St. William's --Louisville

Massachusetts
Boston College, Jesuit Urban Center, Paulist Center --Boston
St. Peter's --Provincetown
Immaculate Conception --Stoughton
Holy Cross --Worcester

Maine
Most Holy Trinity --Saco

Maryland
Corpus Christi, Loyola College, St. Francis of Assisi --Baltimore
St. John the Evangelist --Columbia
St. Bernadette's --Severn

Michigan
St. Ignatius Loyola --St. Ignace

Missouri
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception --Kansas City
St. Cronan's, St. Margaret of Scotland --St. Louis

Minnesota
St. Francis Cabrini, St. Joan of Arc, St. Stephen --Minneapolis
University of St. Thomas
University of St. Catherine

New Jersey
St. Brendan --Clifton
St. Anselm's --Wayside

New Mexico
St. Thomas Aquinas Newman Center (University of New Mexico), Holy Family, Risen Savior --Albuquerque
Sacred Heart of Jesus --Espanola

New York
St. Andrew, St. Boniface --Brooklyn
St. Joseph's (Greenwich Village), St. Sebastian, St. Paul the Apostle, St. Francis Xavier --New York City
Corpus Christi, Emmanuel Church of the Deaf, Our Lady of Good Counsel, St. Augustine, St. Mary's Downtown, St. Monica --Rochester
St. Andrew the Apostle --Syracuse
St. Bridget's --Westbury, Long Island

North Carolina
St. Joan of Arc --Asheville
St. Peter --Charlotte
Immaculate Conception --Durham
St. Patrick --Feyetteville
St. Francis of Assisi --Raleigh

Ohio
St. Martha --Akron
St. Monica-St. George Newman Center (University of Cincinnati), Lesbian & gαy Ministry (Xavier Univerity) --Cincinnati
Ascension of Our Lord --Cleveland
St. Thomas More Newman Center, Ohio State University --Columbus
University of Dayton Campus Ministry --Dayton

Oregon
Koinonia Catholic Community, Paulist Center, St. Philip Neri, St. Andrew's, University of Portland --Portland

Pennsylvania
Old St. Mary's, St. John the Evangelist, St. Vincent de Paul --Philadelphia

Rhode Island
St. Francis Chapel --Providence

Texas
University Catholic Center-University of Texas --Austin
Holy Trinity Church --Dallas
University of the Incarnate Word --San Antonio

Virginia
Sacred Heart --Richmond
St. Nicholas --Virginia Beach