After the German revelations started to snowball earlier this year, with additional revelations flowing fast from one country after another, it became for a time impossible to keep up, and more difficult still to make sense of just where the…
Monthly Archives: May 2010
“End Celibacy”: Appeal to Pope from - priests’ mistresses.
“Abuse” by priests is not only about sexual abuse of children, or even the sexual abuse of children and adolescents, or the sexual and physical abuse of children and adolescents. It also includes the sexual abuse (or “sexual harassment”) of…
Medieval Clerical Abuse & Its Modern Legacy.
We forget, in our lamentations over clerical child abuse, how complex the issue is, how many gradations are hidden in that word, “abuse”, which may range from outright violent rape, to inappropriate but affectionate caresses. We forget, too, that “child”…
US Bishops & ENDA: Are They Speaking For “The Church”?
“America” group blog has posted a copy of a letter sent last week by the USCCB to members of the US Congress, concerning their opposition to the proposed Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). Although the stated purpose of the letter is…
Growing Catholic Acceptance Of Gay Relationships, LGBT Equality
Catholic support for the moral acceptance of gay relationships is growing.
Saints & Excommunication
I regret I do not have time for a proper discussion right now, but this is an important point that is being made. For now, I leave just the introduction and link. I will come back to this later. When…
Archbishop: Catholic “Culture” Contributed to Abuse.
An Australian Archbishop who had an inside view on the unfolding crisis of sexual abuse while serving in the Vatican under Pope John Paul II has offered a chilling but convincing assessment of its nature. The problem, he says, was…
Sex and the City of God: The Vatican & The Thirsting Church.
One of the many notable opinion pieces I have wanted to introduce to you, but did not get to, was one by Michelle Somerville, writing a few weeks ago at Huffington Post on “Sex and the City of God”, which…
The Forward-Thinking Catholic Church.
Who’d have thunk it? An observation at LezGet Real claims that the Catholic Church is engaged in some extraordinarily long-range planning: The Catholic Church is grappling with how to move into the next millennium in an era where there are…
Argentine Priests Declare in Favour Of Gay Families Legislation.
Catholic priests in Argentina have declared their support for the new marriage equality bill.
