Last week, the John Jay report once again showed that the Catholic church’s perception of the causes of clerical abuse, that the root of the problem lies with the gay priests, was completely divorced from reality. Her in the UK…
Monthly Archives: November 2009
Epaminondas: Military Hero, Democrat & Liberator, Cultured Statesman. Gay.
Epaminondas lived before the Christian era, outside the Jewish tradition, and has no claim whatsoever to be treated as a “saints in any literal sense. However, taking the term much more loosely, including those we might consider as role models,…
Clerical Abuse: Compare and Contrast:
Hot on the heels of the interim report of the second phase of the John Jay study to the US bishops, the Irish report I wrote about yesterday provides an opportunity to make some comparisons – and see, once again,…
Trans Faith: Introducing “Transect”, “Transepiscopalian”.
Reading the comprehensive information on my WordPress dashboard, I found a reader who had linked to QTC from a site called “transect”. This turned out to be fascinating site I think you might do well to explore. The tagline says…
Clerical Abuse: The Dublin Cover-up
From Ireland, we now have the long-awaited report of the commission investigating the response of the Irish bishops of Dublin to the problem of abuse of the children in its care. (This is not a report into the problem itself. …
Gay Soldiers? Role Models, at the Foundation of Democracy.
From this side of the Atlantic, the continued reluctance to do away with DADT seems odd, at best… In the UK, gay men and lesbians not only serve freely and openly in the armed services and in the police, but…
Celibacy: An Irish View
Earlier n the week. I noted how a small news story from Ireland was opneing up debate on compulsory clerical celibacy in that country. Here is one example, from the Irish “Independent” . By Kim Bielenberg Saturday November 21 2009…
Celibacy and the USCCB Eunuchs
Of all the issues that the USCCB should be discussing, but won’t, possibly the mot topical and most important is that of admitting married men and women to the priesthood. This is not because they don’t want to – many…
Fig Leaves, Gerasene Swine, and Carpets: Bishops and Clerical Sexual Abuse.
Since my somewhat rushed report at midnight last night, with one 3 am update. I have had some time to look for more information. Guess what? I have found none. Is this a symptom of what will happen to the…
Fig leaf Removed: Clerical abuse is NOT Caused by Gay Priests, after all.
Surprised? no, of course not – but this report is still welcome news, because it was commissioned by the US bishops, to whom an interim report has just been delivered. Some recent history is in order here. In late September,…
