From sea to shining sea: in San Diego, the congregation of Mary Magdalene faith community ordained a woman themselves. In Palm Beach, a woman priest kisses her husband John, who is also a Catholic priest (who is “suspended” from official…
Monthly Archives: August 2010
Cardinal Shonborn & Church Reform: 3 month update.
I’m a little slow in noting this, but last week marked three months since then Cardinal Schonborn, cardinal archbishop of Vienna, suggested that it might be time for the Church to rethink its stance on homosexual relationships, considering the quality…
NOM Bus (Crash) Tour, Iowa
The disastrous bus smash that is NOM’s tour around the country has reached Iowa. Box Turtle Bulletin has a report, noting the age of participants in the NOM rally, and also noting that here as elsewhere, the marriage supporters drew…
DIY Catholicism, San Diego Variety
Probably only a few Catholics would recognize the Mary Magdalene Apostle Faith Community as truly “Catholic” (they most certainly are not “Roman” Catholic. Any remaining family likeness to the Roman church will be diminished even further now, after the congregation…
Our Queer Primate Cousins
A favourite argument used by the religious right against homoerotic relationships, and by the Vatican theologians against any form of sexual expression outside of marriage and not open to making babies, is that such sexual activities are “against nature”, and…
