The existence of gay priests is not a new phenomenon. For as long as the Catholic Church has had priests, a fair proportion of them have been gay (in modern terminology), or have been men who have had sex with…
Monthly Archives: December 2011
Australian Labor Party backs gay marriage.
Today, while the Western hemisphere was asleep, the Australian Labor Party took the decision that has been building for months, and overwhelmingly supported a motion to amend the formal party policy, to provide backing for marriage equality. This does not…
The (Embryonic) Spreading Catholic Spring: Belgian Catholics issue reform manifesto
Already this year, we have had a statement signed by German speaking theologians calling for fundamental reform of the Catholic Church’s culture of clericalism, and a fundamental reform on many details in church rules and teaching. Austrian priests, backed by…
