The Hawaii State House yesterday approved a civil unions bill by a comfortable margin. As the Senate has previously passed the measure, all that is now requited is some tinkering to reconcile the minor differences in the two versions, before…
Monthly Archives: February 2011
My Vatican Dossier, and Papal Backing for the Soho Masses
It’s official. I now have confirmation that somewhere in the depths of the Vatican, someone (indeed, more than one) has a dossier on me. More accurately, the dossier is on the nefarious doings of the Soho Masses, in which I…
Pope Benedict, On the Queer Lessons in the Church’s Martyrdom of St Joan.
At Enhanced Masculinity, I came across a post which reported on an address by Pope Benedict about the martyrdom and later canonization of St Joan of Arc. I was pleased to see this, as I have written before of the…
Theologians’ Revolt Exposes a Vatican Myth
When I quoted Charles Curran last week with his statement that “the majority” of moral theologians want to see some revisions to Catholic teaching on sexual ethics, I could not have anticipated how quickly I would be seeing some evidence…
On being fruitful
In their instructive work The Sexual Person, authors Todd A Salzman and Michael G Lawler offer their readers the following definition: We define a natural, reasonable, and moral sexual act as a just and loving act in accord with a…
Catholic Revolution Gaining Momentum: Germany, Ireland
German Theologians Call For Radical Reforms. Within hours of my post earlier today on the Catholic silent revolution, came news of a dramatic corroboration, with a solid band of German academic theologians in open revolt. In September this year, Pope…
Catholic Revolution Gaining Momentum: Germany, Ireland
German Theologians Call For Radical Reforms. Within hours of my post earlier today on the Catholic silent revolution, came news of a dramatic corroboration, with a solid band of German academic theologians in open revolt. In September this year, Pope…
New York Catholics Support Gay Marriage
Barbara Bush’s public support for gay marriage has garnered a lot of press attention over the past week. Reporting on this the Washington Post has drawn my attention to another finding that should have drawn more attention. Alongside the number…
Thoughts on Popular Revolutions: in Egypt, in South Africa - in the Church
Events in Egypt are dominating the headlines all around the world. It is always dangerous for outsiders to comment too definitively on the internal politics of foreign countries, but inevitably many of us will have thoughts of our own, and…
My Bookish Granddaughter
Claudia’s parentage / grandparentage is definitely showing here - at 22 months. Definitely a Weldon streak in there. Full book report at Spring on Mars
