A parish priest who encouraged clergymen to be “disobedient” towards the Vatican plans to go international. Helmut Schüller of the Preachers’ Initiative said yesterday (Sun) that “2012 will be the year of internationalisation”. Schüller – who previously headed Caritas Austria…
Monthly Archives: January 2012
Liberate Me, Liberate You: The Preferential Option for the Queer
Academic Phillip Berryman has called liberation theology, “an interpretation of Christian faith through the poor’s suffering, their struggle and hope, and a critique of society and the Catholic faith and Christianity through the eyes of the poor.”1 Gay liberation was…
Gay Bishop Charles Otis, on Homosexuality and Faith
Bishop Gene Robinson is the best known openly gay bishop, but there are many others. Bishop Otis Charles, who came out in 1993 after his retirement from full time ministry, is one of them. He is also legally married: he…
Going Slow!
Since Monday of this week, continuing through next week, I have extremely limited time for this site as I am engaged in examination work at the local university. So far, I have been able to do a certain amount, with…
How the Bishops Are Insulting (Opposite - Sex) Married Couples
Isn’t it quite insulting to heterosexual married couples to reduce their affirming commitment through marriage of their relationship to a simple biological act? If marriage is merely for reproductive purposes, why do they insist on trying to defend it as…
Satan Redux: On (Not) Playing the “Devil” Card
It is one of the defining habits of man: “my group is good, your group is evil”. And, every group throughout this history of time has also played both roles: the righteous and the unrighteous. So, this announcement about the new…
“Marriage and the Common Good”: Washington Bishops, Washington Catholics
As marriage equality enters the political arena in Washington state, the Catholic bishops have predictably begun rallying the opposition. What is particularly intriguing in this version of Catholic bishops opposing marriage, is that they explicitly recognize that the legal dispute…
Celebrate the Value of Gay Parents
I don’t need formal research to tell me that gay men and lesbians make good parents: I know it on the grounds of my own success (affirmed by my daughters), and the public testimony of one of them: Gay parents?…
Homosexuals and the Catechism
Many people believe that the Catechism teaching on homosexuality is well known: in effect, you can be gay, just don’t do gay (which makes as much sense as saying you can be left-handed, just don’t write left-handed - but I’m…
Dr Jeffrey John to sue the Church of England for discrimination?
Dr Jeffrey John, the dean of St Albans, has good reason to be unhappy with his treatment by the Church of England. Not once, but twice, he has been nominated as a bishop - and then passed over, in spite…
