Finally! Disgraced U.S. cardinal leaves Rome job Cardinal Bernard Law, who was forced to resign as archbishop of Boston in 2002 over a sex-abuse scandal, has left his prestigious post in the Italian Church after turning 80, the Vatican announced…
Monthly Archives: November 2011
Catholic Parish Honours Gay Saint, Mychal Judge.
Fr Mychal Judge, chaplain to the NY fire department who died September 11 2001, is widely regarded as a modern gay saint. A reader, Brendan Fay, has sent me a link to a report in a local Catholic newspaper, the…
Catholics and Gay Marriage: Hostile Rant Meets Strong Response.
Here’s some good news for queer Catholics. In parallel with the Guardian story, the Catholic Herald (which is generally pretty hostile to anything smacking of LGBT inclusion, and particularly of the Soho Masses, has a typically deranged rant by William…
Gay Marriage: At London “Catholic Voices” Discussion, Gay Catholics NOT Welcome.
At a Catholic event in London next week, specifically about Catholics and gay marriage, the people most directly affected - gay Catholics themselves- have been excluded. In London next week, ”Catholic Voices” is hosting an event to discuss the public…
Bishops’ Pleas for “Religious Freedom” as Smokescreen, and the Double Standards
After I wrote yesterday about the contrast between the Catholic bishops’ pleas for “freedom of religion”, and their strenuous efforts to oppose it (for those who don’t agree with them), I came across two other useful posts with with some…
The Dysfunctional Catholic Family: It’s Not All About “Dad”.
In his inaugural address as President of the USCCB, Archbishop Dolan described the Catholic Church in terms of a “dysfunctional family”, and urged Catholics to make love for Jesus Christ and his Church “the passion of our lives”. Reflecting on…
Gay Marriage: Catholic Bishops Assault on Religious Freedom.
“Freedom of religion” is an important principle in the constitutions of the United States, and of many other countries. It has also been firmly endorsed in Catholic teaching. It is right and proper that Catholic Bishops should be speaking up for…
Gay Marriage: Bishops’ Orwellian Newspeak.
At Bilgrimage, Bill Lindsey has an important post on the Catholic Bishops’ approach to gays, which he describes as an “Inversion of Moral Values: Serious Apologetic Challenge“: In response to the bishops’ claims as reported in Volsky’s article [i.e., reporting…
Open Letter to the President of the US Catholic Bishops
Marianne T. Duddy-Burke: “Making Public Policy on LGBT People? Talk to Us First.” Dear Archbishop Dolan, Last week you accepted the resignation of Daniel Avila, who had served as policy adviser for marriage and family to the U.S. bishops’ Subcommittee…
QTC’s Quarter Million Milestone.
This past Sunday, “Queering the Church” quietly passed a small milestone: cumulative page loads passed the quarter million mark. (You can see the current total in the Statcounter box, at the very bottom of the right- hand side-bar. The total…
