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In Good Conscience, Valerie Harwood

Valerie Harwood

‘I choose not to collaborate in my own oppression by restricting a basic human right…’ ‘To me this is a matter of conscience’. — Sister Jeannine Gramick (Rick & Maysles, 2004, p. 93). When sister Jeanine Gramick made the above remark she was commenting on the Vatican’s attempts to stop her work with lesbian and gay Catholics. Her struggle to resist this silencing has been made into the compelling film documentary In Good Conscience, which has been widely shown, including in North America and London, and has recently been show in Melbourne and Brisbane at the 2005 Queer Film Festivals …