Tim Stier, a native of Oakland, California, was ordained a priest for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland in 1979. For 25 years, he served in five parishes including 12 years as a pastor. In March 2005, after prayerful discernment and years of working for church reform, he felt called to chose exile from active parish ministry to advocate for groups within the Church who have been marginalized and unjustly treated. Among these are women, sexual abuse survivors, and LGBT persons. In 2010, he began a weekly protest outside the Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland to stand in public solidarity with the excluded. In his book, Crying Out For Justice Full-Throated and Unsparingly; A Parish Priest’s Story, he reveals the depths of the crisis in the Church from an insider’s perspective and offers a way forward.
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