When Pope Benedict rebuked the Irish bishops for their failure to act on priests abusing those in his care, he made no made no mention of his own failures to act. We already knew that there were many such failures, simply because Vatican requirements were that all allegations of abuse were to be referred to his office at the CDF, and the bulk of them resulted in no action being taken. What has not been known, are the specifics. That will change, as more facts are swept out from under the Vatican carpet.
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands, Italy, Denmark - SPAIN
What more is there to say? First, of course, is to welcome the fact that the cases are being investigated at all, and that the numbers are low. But here, as elsewhere, there is evidence that some clergy at least…
Abuse: Czech Republic
The cases from the Czech Republic are not new, are not many - but the protestations by the Archbishop are yet another example of the half truths we have been getting from Benedict XVI, and from others in the episcopal…
Natural Law, Natural Families: Acquiring Manly Virtue
Image via Wikipedia Gay men in the modern Western world are accustomed to accusations a homoerotic orientation is seen as effeminate, sissyish. This is a complete myth, as is easily shown by the many counterexamples from the butch, bear and…
Natural Law, Natural Families.
When I first put down some thoughts on sexual ethics here and at “The Open Tabernacle”, it was quite specifically intended as simply a collection of principles that I have put together for myself, rather than any reasoned and coherent…
Irish Bishops’ Resignations Over Abuse: 1 Accepted, 4 (5?) to go.
One of the big disappointments of the pope’s “pastoral” letter to Irish Catholics, was that it contained no reference at all to the resignations of four bishops in the wake of the Murphy report on the cover-ups in Dublin. (A…
Was Jesus Gay? Mark, and the “Naked Young Man”.
Discussion of the question “Was Jesus gay?” usually revolves around the references in the Gospel of John, to “The disciple Jesus loved.” These are well known, and have been widely discussed, here at QTC and elsewhere. My reservations about these…
Oscar Romero: Bishop of the Poor
As Bishop of the Poor, Oscar Romero is an appropriate model for all of us. By standing up firmly as a witness for truth, and against injustice and oppression of all kinds, he has additional significance for us as gay…
Bisexual Snails
There is a widespread myth out there that homoeroticism is somehow “against nature” because “animals don’t do it”. The argument is deeply flawed on numerous counts: Are we to model our behaviour on the animal kingdom? If so, why was…
Boulder parents: ‘They told us in church to love everyone’
Image by Getty Images via @daylife In their continuing series on the Boulder school which accepted then turned away the children of lesbian parents, NCR now has the second in a series of four interviews with other parents. In the…
