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National Catholic Reporter
March 23, 2018
Forgiveness, peace, and love — these are of Christ. We must embrace them. [Homily given March 18, 2018, at Franciscan Spiritual Center, Aston, Pennsylvania. The transcripts of Bishop Thomas Gumbleton's homilies are posted weekly to NCRonline.org. Sign up here to receive an email alert when theÃâà...
National Catholic Reporter
March 1, 2018
How are we going to respond — with more guns? Not if we listen to Jesus. "This is my Son, my beloved. Listen to him." [Homily given Feb. 25, 2018, at St. Philomena, Detroit, Michigan. The transcripts of Bishop Thomas Gumbleton's homilies are posted weekly to NCRonline.org. Sign up here to receive anÃâà...
National Catholic Reporter
January 25, 2018
... forth more and more within our world. All the peoples of the earth will benefit as the reign of God happens because we change our lives and follow Jesus. [Homily given at St. Clare of Montefalco Parish, Detroit. The transcripts of Bishop Thomas Gumbleton's homilies are posted weekly to NCRonline.org.
National Catholic Reporter
January 11, 2018
As Paul says, "This is the good news." It's time we began to live the good news, and carry it out to bring harmony, peace into our world. [Homily given Jan. 6, 2018, at St. Philomena, Detroit, Michigan. The transcripts of Bishop Thomas Gumbleton's homilies are posted weekly to NCRonline.org. Sign up hereÃâà...
National Catholic Reporter
December 21, 2017
... to make his way our way so that we bring peace and fullness of life to everyone. [Homily given Dec. 17 at St. Philomena, Detroit, Michigan. The transcripts of Bishop Thomas Gumbleton's homilies are posted weekly to NCRonline.org. Sign up here to receive an email alert when the latest homily is posted.]Ãâà...
Church Militant
December 13, 2017
Bishop Thomas Gumbleton. Former Bishop of Detroit. The first step toward reversing these harsh judgments and negative feelings about gay priests and homosexual persons in general is to examine our own experience. Without being aware of it, untold numbers of people in the church have been blessedÃâà...
National Catholic Reporter
November 22, 2017
Retired Detroit Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, who served on the committee led by the late Chicago Cardinal Joseph Bernardin that wrote The Challenge of Peace: God's Promise and Our Response, said the pope is "depending on people to follow up and to say, 'That means we have to start toÃâà...
Church Militant
November 3, 2017
Michigan Filmgoers: "American Prophet," about the life of the great Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, will be screening at the East Lansing Film Festival: Lansing Celebration Cinemas' Studio C theater, on Friday, November 10th, at 2pm: https://t.co/OeIgm01Fwy pic.twitter.com/MJEQfGZdjx. — James Martin, SJÃâà...
America Magazine
November 18, 2015
Bishop Thomas J. Gumbleton is a writer and retired Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Detroit. He was also the founding president of Pax Christi USA and a co-founder of the Michigan Coalition for Human Rights. Bishop Gumbleton earned a B.A. degree in 1952, a M.Div. degree in 1956Ãâà...
National Catholic Reporter
November 5, 2011
MILWAUKEE -- Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, a retired auxiliary bishop of Detroit, revealed for the first time yesterday details about his removal as a parish pastor in 2007. NCR published a report of the talk Gumbleton delivered at pre-conference meeting of Call to Action in Milwaukee. See Retired bishopÃâà...