I have been slow to start watching “My Transsexual Summer”, which has been airing on (British) Channel 4 for some weeks. I have just watched the first episode on 4OD catch-up TV. The series follows a mixed group of seven…
Monthly Archives: November 2011
My Experience as “The Bridegroom of Christ”
Yesterday, was the feast of Blessed Bernardo de Hoyos, who saw himself, in a mystical vision, as “the spouse of Christ”, united with him in what today we might call a gay marriage. Always holding my right hand, the Lord had…
“Catholic Truth Scotland”: Are the readers doomed to Hell?
Catholic Truth readers see nothing wrong with gay marriage. Catholic Truth Scotland has flattered me by placing a prominent, front-page link to my recent post on Archbishop Vincent Nichols’ Balanced, Sane Response to Gay Marriage”, using it to introduce their…
Gay Marriage: Catholics and the (Selective) “Common Good”.
The British group “Catholic Voices” have now held their meeting to formulate a Catholic argument against the introduction here of full marriage equality – a “Catholic” meeting on gay marriage from which, bizarrely, gay Catholics were specifically excluded. A report…
Gay Marriage, Riverdale
Coming, January. Story at Huffington Post
Australia, It’s Time!
Next weekend (Dec 3) Australia’s governing Labour Party will be deciding whether to change party policy to endorse gay marriage. Watch the ad.
Give Thanks for Archbishop Nichols’ Balanced, Sane Response to British Gay Marriage.
The British don’t celebrate Thanksgiving, but Catholics in England and Wales have good cause this week to give thanks all the same, this week. The head of the Catholic Church here, Archbishop Vincent Nichols, has responded to the planned introduction…
Is this Thanksgiving – or April 1st?
I’ve seen many loonytune arguments against marriage equality (including those by Catholic bishops), but this takes the cake. If the bishops’ arguments are on “the outer fringes of Crazytown”, these guys are way out in the exurbs. By their reasoning,…
Barbara Grier’s “Lesbian Nuns: Breaking the Silence”
There has been quite a lot written recently, about the high proportion of gay men in the priesthood, and the reasons for this. There is not nearly as much written about the counterpart, lesbian nuns. One notable exception is ”Lesbian Nuns: Breaking…
“Two Kinds of Catholics”
Here’s a great quotation about Catholics I’ve been wanting to share for a long time. Trouble is, while I know exactly where I read it, and the background of the speaker, I can’t track down the magazine where I saw…
