A remarkable feature of the CDF’s core document on homosexuality is the almost total absence of any reference to the words or example of Jesus Christ. The CDF “Letter to the bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care…
Monthly Archives: December 2010
Happy Birthday, QTC: 2 Years Old.
Two years ago today, I wrote my first post. As my primary aims and intentions have not changed, I reproduce it below in full - except for some more careful editing. Come In, and Come Out: Welcome to your world…
This Christmas, Let Us Put Christ Back Into Christianity
At this time of year, we are accustomed to numerous pleas to “Put Christ back into Christmas”. These are entirely appropriate. The commercial binge and festive eating and drinking have nothing to do with the religious celebration of the Nativity.…
Gay Priests: There’s power in testimony
It gets better. It gets better. It gets better! These words have become something of a mantra over the past weeks as I watched clip after clip from the wall of videos uploaded on the It Gets Better Project site…
US Military Catches Up With Rest of World, Enters 21st Century.
Perhaps the most telling aspect of this is the final margin - 65 to 31 - and the eight Republican senators who voted for repeal. The evidence has been growing for months, and this is the most conspicuous result so…
Second Senior Bishop Defends Soho LGBT Masses
Archbishop Bernard Longley of Birmingham has publicly defended the Soho Masses, and repeated the criticisms of our opponents that were made some months ago by Archbishop Vincent Nichols, who said that those who wished to pass judgement should learn to…
The Perils of Criticism: Fr Alan Griffiths
What is the most important commandment? For Catholic priests, it often seems to be “Thou shalt not step out of line.” Fr Alan Griffiths took the bold and unusual step some months ago of criticising the procedures that have been…
Patrick Chen on Christ the “Transgressor”.
One of the things that most upsets some people about same sex eroticism is that it supposedly “transgresses” the socially accepted bounds of decency and religious rules. Patrick Chen’s forth instalment of his Christological model of sin and grace for…
Fr Owen O’Sullivan on Gay Inclusion (Pt 6): Liberating our theology of sexual relationships from the Church
In some recent posts, I have responded to a reader who pointed to the sixth commandment “Thou shalt not commit adultery”, by pointing out that so much of orthodox sexual teaching has nothing to do with adultery. This commandment has…
What Gay Catholics Have Done: Collusion
Faced with the Catholic Church’s disordered teaching on homoerotic relationships, gay Catholics have adopted many different strategies to survive, from attempted compliance, to outright rejection of the teaching, and the entire Catholic Church along with it. As my contributor Bart…
