FORTUNATE FAMILIES RECORDS
WRITINGS

Series Box Folder Folder Title
5 1 - Speeches
5 1 1 Various Presentations
5 1 2 Always Our Children Panel--Casey Lopata; Albany, NY; June 1, 1998
5 1 3 Always Our Children--Casey Lopata; Houston Catholic Charities; Sept 27, 1998
5 1 4 Angst to Advocacy Presentation--Casey Lopata; Dignity USA Convention; July 4, 2009
5 1 5 Are You a Part of My Community? Issues of Sexuality: Families with Lesbian & Gay Members--Mary Ellen Lopata; Brockport; Oct 27, 2000
5 1 6 Ashbury First Methodist Church--Mary Ellen Lopata; Sept 19, 1999
5 1 7 Baltimore St. Matthews--Casey Lopata, Sept 6, 2008
5 1 8 Beyond Acceptance: My Parents are Fine, They Just Don't Want to Talk About It--Mary Ellen Lopata; AIDS Rochester; June 13, 1997
5 1 9 Bishop Kearney--Casey Lopata; May 29, 1996
5 1 10 Breaking the Silence: Diocesan and Parish Ministries Come Out--Mary Ellen Lopata; Dignity Convention, Boston July 12, 1997
5 1 11 Cher & Claire Annec Blessing Ceremony Reflection, July 27, 1996
5 1 12 Coming Out to Parents--Mary Ellen Lopata; Borders Books and Music; April 28,1997
5 1 13 Compassion--Casey and Mary Ellen Lopata; St Gregory 1st Ann; Marion, NY; Oct 18, 1995
5 1 14 Dignity 2017 Workship Script--Casey and Mary Ellen Lopata; Boston, MA; July 6, 2017
5 1 15 Empire State College; Children & Families in the 21st Century; March 22, 1997
5 1 16 From Angst to Advocacy--Casey and Mary Ellen Lopata; Chataqua PFLAG; Aug 13, 2009
5 1 17 Gay & Lesbian Political Caucus Panel; Sept 9. 1996
5 1 18 Gifted and Called for a Purpose in God's Design: Welcoming Gay and Lesbian Catholics in Your Parish--Casey and Mary Ellen Lopata, CTA; MKE, WI; Nov 5-7, 1999
5 1 19 God's Love Revealed--Mary Ellen Lopata; Blessed Trinity Parish; Mississagua; May 4, 2001
5 1 20 God's Love Revealed--Mary Ellen Lopata; Catholic Charities Community Services; Feb 26, 2002
5 1 21 God's Love Revealed--Mary Ellen Lopata; Ithaea, NY; Dec 4, 2004
5 1 22 God's Love Revealed & Untitled Speech--Mary Ellen Lopata; Owego, NY; Nov 18, 2001
5 1 23 Good Morning--Mary Ellen Lopata; Third Presbyterian; Rochester, NY; Feb 22, 2011
5 1 24 Greece Baptist Church Speeches; 1996
5 1 25 Heterosexism--Casey Lopata; SUNY Brockport; Oct 27, 2000
5 1 26 Homosexuality, Families and Church: Breaking the Silence--Mary Ellen Lopata; Incarnate Word; Jan 30, 2000
5 1 27 Immaculate Conception; Jan 27, 1999
5 1 28 Leaderships Day--Casey and Mary Ellen Lopata; Hobert E Williams Smith Colleges; Aug 12, 1998
5 1 29 Learning to Swim... Ministry With Families Who Have Gay or Lesbian Members
5 1 30 My Story--Mary Ellen Lopata; Assumption; Nov 17, 1999
5 1 31 My Story--Mary Ellen Lopata; SBI; Ithaca, NY; Jan 24, 1998
5 1 32 My Story--Mary Ellen Lopata; SSJ/RMS; Gay, Lesbian, and Concerned Catholics; Oct 2, 1996
5 1 33 My Story--Mary Ellen Lopata; St Josephs Penfield; March 24, 1997
5 1 34 National Coming Out Day--Mary Ellen Lopata; Borders Rochester, NY; Oct 11, 1995
5 1 35 Our Lady Queen of Peace--Casey Lopata; Bochen Class; April 25, 2002
5 1 36 Parents Day of Reflection--Casey Lopata; Jan 15, 2000
5 1 37 Parents Day of Reflection--Mary Ellen Lopata; Sisters of St Joseph Mother House; Elmira, NY; Feb 27, 1999
5 1 38 Pastoral Staff Workshop--Casey Lopata; SBI; February 11, 1998
5 1 39 Presentation for An Evenings Conversation on Ministry; St Bernards
5 1 40 Presentation: Homosexuality in the Context of Moral Discernment
5 1 41 RIT--Casey Lopata; March 26, 2002
5 1 42 Rochester Diocese--Casey Lopata; Office of the Synod; Family Conference; Rochester, NY; Sept 30, 1995
5 1 43 Section 1: Coming Out as Family Catholic Style--Mary Ellen Lopata; OLQP; April 25, 2002
5 1 44 Speech at St Josephs; Penfield; March 24, 1997
5 1 45 Speech at St Matthews Parish; Baltimore, MD; Sept 6, 2008
5 1 46 Speech; Catholic Charities; Houston, TX
5 1 47 Speech: Putting Our Synod Values Together
5 1 48 Spring Enrichment--Casey Lopata; Diocese of Albany; May 13, 2014
5 1 49 St Margaret Mary; Apalachin 
5 1 50 St Mary's--Casey Lopata; March 21, 1996
5 1 51 St Pat, Owego In-Service; May 3, 2001
5 1 52 The Church and Sexuality: Women as Partners in the Dialogue--Mary Ellen Lopata; Helen Barrett Montgomery Institute on Women in Church and Society; Colgate Rochester Divinity Scool/Bexley Hall/Crozer Theological Seminary; Nov 7-11, 1996
5 1 53 The Courage of Allies: Telling the Storoies Panel--Casey Lopata; CRCDS Christian Faith and LGBT Experience; Rochester, NY; April 25, 2019
5 1 54 Toronto Day of Reflection--Casey Lopata; May 31, 2014
5 1 55 What's It Like for Parents?--Mary Ellen Lopata; Precious Blood Community; Kansas City, MO; Jan 20-22, 2012
5 2-4 - Writings
5 2 1 3 Ms in 3 Minutes: Putting Meaning into the Elevator Speech
5 2 2 3rd Sunday of Easter Summary of Exegesis
5 2 3 Always Our Children
5 2 4 American Catholicism
5 2 5 A Personal Timeline History of How Fortunate Families Came to Be
5 2 6 Book Report: Between the Sexes by Lisa Sowle Cahill
5 2 7 Book Report: Heterosexism by Patricia Beattie Jung & Ralph F Smith
5 2 8 Book Report: Sacrament of Sexuality by Morton Kelsey & Barbara Kelsey
5 2 9 Book Report: The Sexual Creators: An Ethical Proposal for Concerned Christians by Andre Guindon
5 2 10 Book Report: What Are They Saying About Sexual Mortality? By James P Hanigan
5 2 11 But Some Doubted...An Ascension Thursday Reflection on Gay Spirituality
5 2 12 C304 Theology of Church Final Exam
5 2 13 Canon 748: Religious Freedom
5 2 14 Case Study: The Morality of Stable, Committed Gay Relationships
5 2 15 Catholic Parents of Gay Sons & Lesbian Daughters; 1998 Survey Summary
5 2 16 Church as Reconciler with Gay & Lesbian Catholics
5 2 17 Coming Out to Parents: Book Review Speech
5 2 18 Conference Handouts/Outlines
5 2 19 Conference: Rochester Diocese; Sept 30, 1995
5 2 20 Conversion in Cartoons
5 2 21 Critique & Contrast of Justice & Only Justice & Blood Brothers; Holy Land Study/Pilgrimage
5 2 22 Dignity; A Report to the Catholic Diocese of Rochester; NY; April 1980
5 2 23 Diocesan & Lesbian Family Ministry
5 2 24 Diocese of Albany
5 2 25 Final "Take Home" Exam; Church History
5 2 26 God's Love Revealed
5 2 27 "Hey, It Looks Different From This Steeple!" 
5 2 28 How a Catholic's View of Church Shapes His/Her View of Homosexuality
5 2 29 How Equally Blessed Came About & Supplementary Info
5 2 30 If the Church is Serious About Welcoming Gays
5 2 31 Insertion Paper
5 2 32 Introduction to Theology; Seminar; 1989; Fr Joseph Hart
5 2 33 Jesus as the Compassion of God and Some Implications for the Church Involvement in State Legislation
5 2 34 Key Developments in the Understanding of Homosexuality as Sin (or Not)
5 2 35 Leaders Without Followers: the Catholic Hierarchy's Campaign Against LGBT Rights
5 2 36 Legal Research
5 2 37 Lost Coin Homily
5 3 1 Mid-Course Take Home Exam; Contemporary Moral Theology
5 3 2 My Personal Perspective on Sexual Morality in Dialogue With My Faith Tradition: Tensions, Transitions, & Trajectories
5 3 3 My Son Jim: Gay AND Catholic
5 3 4 My Story: SBI
5 3 5 On Suffering Because of Joes Death
5 3 6 Pastoral Strategy
5 3 7 Reflection Paper & Creative Activity Notes for Slide Presentation: Holy Land Study/Pilgrimage
5 3 8 Rolling the Stone Away
5 3 9 Sacramentality of Gay Unions
5 3 10 See Me as the Person God Made
5 3 11 Social Analysis
5 3 12 St Bernards Institute; Acceptance into the Order of Catechumens: A Reflection
5 3 13 St Bernards Institute; Anonymous Christian
5 3 14 St Bernards Institute; Comparative Assessment of Roetzels "The Letters of Paul" and Furnishs "The Moral Teaching of Paul"
5 3 15 St Bernards Institute; Day of Yahweh (Day of the Lord) in Amos
5 3 16 St Bernards Institute; Dei Verbum & the Magisterium
5 3 17 St Bernards Institute; Faith & the Nicene Creed
5 3 18 St Bernards Institute; History of the US Catholic Church and Homosexuality
5 3 19 St Bernards Institute; Initial Working Outline & List of Works to be Consulted; Luke 3:15-22
5 3 20 St Bernards Institute; Expanded Working Outline & List of Works Consulted; Luke 3:15-22
5 3 21 St Bernards Institute; Implementing an Offertory Procession at St Marys; A Pastoral-Litergical Approach
5 3 22 St Bernards Institute; Justice and Righteousness in the 8th Century BCE Prophets
5 3 23 St Bernards Institute; Mid-Term Take Home; Christology
5 3 24 St Bernards Institute; Muling, Muddling Morality
5 3 25 St Bernards Institute; On the Notion of Sacrament in Ambrose's "On the Mysteries"
5 3 26 St Bernards Institute; Our Mother/Our Father
5 3 27 St Bernards Institute; Outline & Works to be Consulted; The Historical Evolution of the Primacy of the Bishop of Rome from the Beginning of 500 CE
5 3 28 St Bernards Institute; Romans Ch16: Original or Not?
5 3 29 St Bernards Institute; Sensus Fidelium: Norm or Catalyst?
5 3 30 St Bernards Institute; The Baptism of the Lord? Luke 3:15-22
5 3 31 St Bernards Institute; The Catholic, Homosexual Male in the US: Social Analysis
5 3 32 St Bernards Institute; The Catholic, Homosexual Male in the US: Pastoral Strategy
5 3 33 St Bernards Institute; The Catholic Homosexual Male in the US: Theological Reflection
5 3 34 St Bernards Institute; The Catholic Homosexual Male in the US: Insertion
5 3 35 St Bernards Institute; The Difficulties of Interpreting 1 Cor 11:10
5 3 36 St Bernards Institute; The Great Entrance
5 3 37 St Bernards Institute; The Historical Development of the Primacy of the Bishop of Rome from the Beginning to Leo the Great
5 4 1 St Bernards Institute; The Meaning and Purpose of Holy Spirit in Paul
5 4 2 St Bernards Institute; The Meaning and Purpose of Third Heaven in 2 Cor 12:2
5 4 3 St Bernards Institute; Theology and Experience
5 4 4 St Bernards Institute; Psalms 42 & 43
5 4 5 St Bernards Institute; Take Home Final: Christology
5 4 6 St Bernards Institute; Take Home Final
5 4 7 St Bernards Institute; The Sacramentality of Gay Unions
5 4 8 St Bernards Institute; The Story of Rahab: Introduction to the Old Testament
5 4 9 St Bernards Institute; History & Development of the Theology of the Sacrament of Marriage and History and Development of the Rite of the Sacrament of Marriage
5 4 10 St Bernards Institute; Verbatim #1; Analysis Introduction to Pastoral Counseling
5 4 11 St Bernards Institute; Verbatim #1; Report: Introduction to Pastoral Counseling
5 4 12 St Bernards Institute; Verbatim #2; Analysis: Introduction to Pastoral Counseling
5 4 13 St Bernards Institute; Verbatim #2; Report: Introduction to Pastoral Counseling
5 4 14 St Bernards Institute; Vertatis Splendor and Reconciliation; Rites of Christian Reconciliation
5 4 15 The Archbishops Heartbreaking Opposition to SB48
5 4 16 Theological Reflection
5 4 17 To Heed or Not to Heed
5 4 18 Various Articles
5 4 19 Vertatis Splendor and Reconciliation
5 4 20 What I Did on My Summer Vacation