Archbishop Vincent Nichols, head of the Catholic Church in England & Wales, has made some important statements on the priorities for the English Church, and they are not (as the rule-book Catholics would claim), about sexual ethics, the Soho Masses,…
Monthly Archives: September 2010
Mormon Prop 8 Apology: A Lesson for Minnesota’s Catholic Bishops
As the Minnesota bishops prepare for their determined campaign to prevent marriage equality in their state, they would do well to reflect on the experience of the Mormons in California over Prop 8. As is well known, the Mormons, like…
Archbishop Nichols, on Catholic Priorities & The English Church
At Bilgrimage, Bill Lindsay has a depressing (but accurate) assessment of the ten “essential articles of creed”, as espoused by card-carrying Catholics. (“Who Knew? What Reading Newman Did Not Prepare Me for When I Became Catholic“) In summary, these are…
On Faith, Reason and the “Sensus Fidelium”.
One of the paradoxes of the teaching on the Sensus Fidelium is a general acceptance of its importance in determining the validity of any particular doctrine – but a complete absence of guidelines on how to determine if it exists.…
Gay Adoption: The Best Interests of Children, and the Question of Evidence (Again)
Last week’s appeals court decision that threw out the Florida ban on gay adoption has once again highlighted the idiocy of attempting to promote the interests of children by arbitrarily declaring one entire class of people necessarily superior as parents…
English Progressives Strengthened by Papal Visit
Writing at Bilgrimage, Bill Lindsay writes about the one-sided nature of Catholic reporting of the Papal visit to England and Scotland, noting that the mainstream Catholic media spectacularly missed the point during the papal visit to Britain when they sought…
Yet Again: Court Rules Discrimination is Unconstitutional
This is the second court ruling this month that the discrimination inherent in DADT is unconstitutional. It is also counter -productive and irrational, completely devoid of evidence. In many periods of history and in many societies, gay soldiers have been…
Fr Bernard Lynch, at “Protest the Pope” Rally.
Fr Bernard Lynch is an openly gay Catholic priest, whose honesty and conscience have frequently brought him into conflict with the powers that be in the Catholic Church. He has been in the news recently for having joined the “Protest…
Church Idiocy in Minnesota.
I’ve been wanting to write about the misdirected Catholic expenditure, by the Knights of Columbus and now by the diocese of Minneapolis St Paul, to fight gay marriage. Michael J. Bayly (who is right there in the Twin Cities) at The…
The Real Mamma Grizzlies: Lesbian Bears!
Sarah Palin’s understanding of wildlife appears to be no better than her tenuous grasp of social history. Mrs Palin has been very much in the news over her enthusiastic promotion of a band of crazies thoughtful, conservative candidates who agree…
