re: Your statement on “redefining” marriage : Everyone has a right to marry, but no one has the right to change the nature of marriage. Marriage is what it is and always has been, no matter what a Legislature decides…
Monthly Archives: November 2010
The Problems of the Pope’s “Condom” Interview.
Two things are clear about Benedict XVI’s interview with his remarks on condoms: the extraordinary interest, and the widespread confusion it has created. A front page story in yeterday’s Guardian featured interviews with Catholic students at my previous home parish…
Oz Marriage Equality Draws Ever Nearer.
The prospects for the introduction of same sex marriage for Australians have been transformed in just a few weeks. Although Prime Minister Julia Gillard remains intransigent in her opposition, I wonder how much longer she will be able to hold…
Condoms and the “Marital Act”.
I got home late last night to find the news sites ablaze with reports that Pope Benedict has conceded that there could be some justification for the use of condoms “in certain cases”. Most reports see this (very slight) shift…
DIY Catholicism, Europe: Breakaway Parishes in Belgium, Netherlands - Catholic, Not Roman
The Catholic Church in Belgium strikes me in some respects as a microcosm of the state of the Church in the rest of the developed world - Africa excepted. In this nominally Catholic country, ordinary people have been turning away…
Remember Our Trans Martyrs
Today, November 20th, is the 10th annual day of Remembrance, a day set aside in memory of trans people who have been murdered for their honest expression of their gender identity. (Thanks, here, to Kittredge Cheery, who alerted me to…
Patrick Chen, on the “Erotic Christ”.
When I referred somewhat simplistically in an earlier post to LGBT “gloom” over the mid-term election results, Kittredge Cherry (of the excellent Jesus in Love blog) replied in a comment that this should be set against remarkable progress in LGBT…
US Nuns Are Revolting - at Bishops’ Double Standards.
In yet another demonstration that Catholics today are no longer content to simply sit back and pray, pay and disobey, a group of US nuns have openly criticized the USCCB over its double standards on homosexuality. On the one hand,…
Fr Owen O’Sullivan on Gay Inclusion (Pt 2): Why Can’t They Just Keep Quiet About It?
At Boundless Salvation, Jason Davies-Kildea, took as his second extract from Fr Owen O’Sullivan’s paper on Gay Inclusion a section headed “Why Can’t they Just Keep Quiet?”. This is a short passage, and an apparently reasonable question - which hides some…
Fr Owen O’Sullivan on Gay Inclusion: Is Homosexuality Unnatural?
Extracts from Fr Owen Sullivan’s Furrow article on gay inclusion may be read at “Boundless Salvation”, where they have been reproduced by Jason Davies-Kildea, a Salvation Army officer serving as Social Program Secretary of the Melbourne Central Division. He has divided the…
