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Sunday, September 5 - Sunday Service & Social
6:00 PM
Sunday, September 12 - Board Meeting (2nd Sunday)
4:30 PM
Due to the Dallas Pride Festival being conducted on Sunday, September 19th, the Board Meeting has been moved one week earlier. - Sunday Service & Social
6:00 PM
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About Dignity Dignity/Dallas is a chapter of DignityUSA, a national organization that works for respect and justice for all gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in the Catholic Church and the world through education, advocacy and support. While local chapters weave people together in meaningful, caring relationships that are the heart of communion, the national organization speaks with a single, informed, authoritative voice for GLBT Catholics everywhere.
Dignity/Dallas is a spirit-filled community, recognized for simple, traditional weekly and special-occasion liturgies that nourish and sustain its members to live the Gospel of Jesus. The worship environment provides a safe haven for members, their family and friends to grow in the love of God and to give faithful witness to the sacredness of their lives.
Members are challenged to work for justice for and acceptance of GLBT persons, in partnership with similarly focused organizations, both religious and secular. They also provide social and recreational activities in an atmosphere of friendship and love.
We meet at the Cathedral of Hope, the world’s largest liberal Christian church with a primary outreach to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. Dignity/Dallas has been warmly welcomed to this “seat” of gay Christianity since August 2006. The Congregational Life Center, completed in 2002, is a 22,000-square-foot multipurpose building with classrooms for children and youth, space for Christian Education classes and meetings, and office space for Cathedral staff.
The Cathedral of Hope is located at 5910 Cedar Springs Road in Dallas. The Congregational Life Center Chapel can be accessed via the garden walkway to the right of the cathedral’s bell wall.
WHY DOESN'T DIGNITY/DALLAS WORSHIP AT A CATHOLIC CHURCH?
Initially, Dignity chapters were welcome at Catholic churches. In fact, some bishops supported Dignity as an "unofficial" ministry to gay and lesbian Catholics. On Oct. 30, 1986, the Vatican issued a "Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons." This document instructed the bishops to withdraw all support, or even the semblance of support, from any group that was vague on the immorality of homogenital acts. Surely the Vatican had Dignity in mind. And many found the letter harsh and uninformed. At DignityUSA's national convention in 1987, the organization declared that it believes lesbian and gay people may indeed engage in loving, life-giving, and life-affirming sex, always in an ethically responsible and unselfish way. By proclaiming publicly what Church teaching does allow — but only in the privacy of conscience — bishops began evicting local chapters for rejecting Church teaching and, most important, for opposing ecclesiastical authority.
WHY DID DIGNITY TAKE SUCH A PUBLIC STAND AGAINST CHURCH TEACHING?
Dignity felt called to a prophetic stance, which, simply said, is to be honest about the matter. After nearly 20 years of ministering to hurting Catholics, Dignity members were aware of the harm that the Church's repeated condemnation of homosexuality does to individuals. One statement from a pope or bishop can throw devout gay Catholics back into guilt and self-deprecation that they may have spent years trying to overcome. Dignity wanted to go on record as a group of homosexual but self-affirming and practicing Catholics, thereby giving hope to other GLBT Catholics.
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