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When she was 16, Bonnie Perry attended a Catholic youth retreat that changed her life.
"During that retreat I had a profound experience of being loved for who I was, as I was, in the person of Jesus Christ," recalled Perry,
who was raised Catholic. "My life has never been the same. ...The
reality that Jesus loves me, and you, all of us completely and utterly,
that is what fuels my passion for life and for the Gospel and for our
church."
But when she felt called to the priesthood
while a student at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, she
realized she would have to leave since the Catholic Church doesn't allow
female pastors. As someone who identified as a lesbian, she said she
would feel especially marginalized in the Catholic Church.
And
so she became an Episcopalian pastor and later a rector at All Saints’
Episcopal Church in Chicago where she has served for the past 26 years.
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