New Ways Ministry, which dissents from Catholic teaching on homosexuality, criticized “The Body-Soul Unity of the Human Person,” a recent pastoral letter on gender ideology by Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco and Bishop Michael Barber, SJ of Oakland.
New Ways Ministry was the subject of a notification by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (1999) and a statement by the US bishops (2011).
Pope Francis, however, has praised Sister Jeannine Gramick, co-founder of New Ways Ministry, in a handwritten letter. Last month, he met with Sister Gramick and other leaders of the group for 50 minutes.