Urgent tasks for church renewal (Book Review) Let me state up front and categorically: This is by any standard the best book on church renewal I’ve read, especially on renewal for the Roman Catholic church. - full review at National Catholic…
Monthly Archives: August 2011
Gay,Celibate Catholic Priests: Mychal Judge, and Fred Daley.
Much of the outrage and hysteria that is sometimes vented at gay Catholics, and at gay priests in particular, comes from the mistaken assumption that “gay” necessarily implies sexual activity, which it does not. In a response to my post…
Kitsap County’s Suquamish Tribe makes same-sex marriage legal Heather Purser has no immediate wedding plans, but thanks to her persistence, she and her partner can now legally marry on Suquamish tribal land. The tribe this week made it legal for…
More N.J. voters support same-sex marriage than oppose it, poll says More New Jersey voters support same-sex marriage than oppose it, according to a poll released today. The poll, by the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling, found 47 percent of…
The Real Scandal of the “Miami Gay Priests’ Cabal”
In a sad and sorry tale, Gawker has published extracts from a dossier on gay clergy in Miami, put together by a group called “Christifidelis”, and titled “Miami Vice” . The report has been met with outrage and indignation at…
Vatican II themes: The church as servant | A third major ecclesiological principle in the Second Vatican Council’s teaching is that the mission of the Church includes service to human needs in the social, economic, and political orders, as well…
Vatican editor says media coverage of abuse promoted purification. Media coverage of the clerical sex abuse scandal helped Catholics come to terms with the need to purify and renew the church, although the coverage was not always fair, said the…
Quo Vadis?
The apocryphal text Acts of Peter, besides presenting a somewhat spectacular account of the Apostle Peter’s acts, focuses (in the final chapters) on his martyrdom in Rome. According to this text, prior to his martyrdom, Peter was urged by Christians…
Garden State Equality Chairman Steven Goldstein says polls now show a majority of Catholics support gay marriage : PolitiFact agrees, says statement is “mostly true”. Do a majority of Catholics really favor gay marriage? Steven Goldstein of Garden State Equality provided…
