Queer Religious News Today

Creative investigations by two alumni and two current students underscore RISD’s renewed commitment to research.

I arrived in Racine, Wisconsin, on a Friday afternoon in March, where 44 Sisters from 22 congregations were coming together for the New Ways M...

Sister Janet Rozzano spent 25 years as a nun before coming out as a lesbian. (Envato) A nun has explained why she feels she is called by God to “affirm and celebrate” her lesbian identity in the Catholic church. Sister Janet Rozzano is part of Sisters of Mercy, an international community of Catholic nuns who “take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience and service”, since 1956. She described her journey, “filled with both struggles and joys”, in an op-ed published by Reuters,ahead of...

Mercy Sr. Janet Rozzano discovered she was a lesbian gradually. During the 1960s and 70s, she became emotionally close with several women, describing her feelings in journal entries filled with both fear and joy, as she wrote in an essay published in When she gathered the courage to come out, other women in her community supported her, Rozzano told Global Sisters Report. Soon, she became an advocate for other LGBTQ Catholics. "I came to see my telling people — coming out to them — as a min...