Jeannine Gramick

Jeannine Gramick
Born	1942 (age 74–75)
Nationality	American
Occupation	Religious sister, academic

Jeannine Gramick, S.L., (born 1942) is a Roman Catholic religious sister and advocate for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights as a co-founder of New Ways Ministry.

Sr. Jeannine was born to a Polish Roman Catholic family in Philadelphia, and attended Catholic grade and high schools. She moved to Baltimore in 1960 to join the School Sisters of Notre Dame, teaching high school mathematics through the 1960s. Later, she was an associate professor of mathematics at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland in the early 1970s.

Having graduated in 1969 with an M.Sc. degree from the University of Notre Dame, Sr. Jeannine completed a Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania, obtained in 1975.

She began three chapters of Dignity USA in Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia, as well as the Conference for Catholic Lesbians.Sr. Jeannine co-founded New Ways Ministry with Fr. Robert Nugent, which is a Catholic LGBT-positive ministry of justice and advocacy in the Catholic Church and civil society.

Many publications written and edited by Sr. Jeannine explain further on her positions and ministry, including "Homosexuality and the Catholic Church," "Homosexuality in the Priesthood and Religious Life," "The Vatican and Homosexuality," and "Voices of Hope: A Collection of Positive Catholic Writings on Lesbian/Gay Issues." She is the co-author with Fr. Robert Nugent of "Building Bridges: Gay and Lesbian Reality and the Catholic Church,". "Building Bridges" was translated into Italian and published as "Anime Gay: Gli omosessuali e la Chiesa cattolica" (Editori Riuniti, Rome, 2003).

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