With lesbians and gay men now serving openly in the US military, the next step is to ensure parity in employment conditions. One part of this is equal access to chaplaincy services. This has just come a little bit closer,…
Monthly Archives: September 2011
Equality is a Family Value: Support Brazilian Mums
I have just received an email from a friend, which took me to a website for “Equality Moms”, to challenge hate and discrimination in Brazil. “I’d rather have a dead son than a gay son.” These words, recently spoken by…
Bishop vows gay marriage ‘will prevail’
Church leaders who oppose same-sex marriage will eventually be shown to be on the wrong side of history, former Bishop of Edinburgh Richard Holloway said today. He said churches had, however slowly, changed their minds on issues such as…
European Parliament Votes Overwhelmingly on Human Rights for Gays and Transgender People Worldwide
In June, the United Nations adopted a resolution affirming the human rights of all LGBT people, worldwide – a welcome, but largely symbolic gesture. UN resolutions frequently make good sound-bites, but have no teeth and are routinely ignored by precisely…
Fr Gionet: Condemned by His Own Words.
At Lifesite News and elsewhere, commenters continue to defend Fr Gionet for allegedly doing no more than stating Catholic Doctrine. In his defence, they point to the following statement by him, in which he attempts to explain his words: “I…
Pope Benedict’s Remarkable Silence on Homosexuality
A Reuters headline last week, taken up and repeated elsewhere, had me disturbed and disappointed: Catholics cannot accept gay marriage, pope says My immediate reaction was to work out a response based on the obvious empirical falsity of the statement – the fact…
Homophobic Priests: Doctrinally Correct, Pastorally Wrong.
Last week, two priests at opposite ends of North America fell foul of the local bishops, apparently for their anti-LGBT actions. In Canada, a visiting priest in the diocese of Bathurst was barred from saying Mass by Bishop Bishop Valéry Vienneau after…
Beyond Male and Female: Gender Trouble, Biology Trouble.
There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. – Galatians 3:28 In the context of religion, we are familiar with the quotation from Galatians, even if in the Catholic Church we are unwilling to take the words…
Look Who’s Talking: Pope Benedict Warns Against the Abuse of Power/
Pope Benedict XVI addressed Germany’s Parliament in the historic Reichstag building yesterday, warning that politicians must not sacrifice ethics for power and evoking the Nazi excesses of his homeland as a lesson in history. Amid scattered protests outside…
Bishop reassigns anti-gay El Paso Priest for Anti-gay politicking!
Yesterday, we had a report from Canada that a priest had been barred from saying Mass, after a series of homilies in which he atttacked “homosexuals” (while disregarding the Catechism instruction to treat them with understanding, dignity and respect). Today,…
