There’s only 0ne thing I like about Lifesite News: when they express outrage at something concerning the queer community, it’s usually a matter that deserves close attention, even celebration. Here’s a biggie: Cardinal Carlo Martini, who at the conclave of…
Monthly Archives: March 2012
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend’s ‘Case for Gay Acceptance in the Catholic Church’ « Bondings 2.0
Two plenary speakers from New Ways Ministry’s Seventh National Symposium once again made headlines in national publications, spreading their message of the Catholic call for LGBT equality to a wider and broader audience. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend speaking at New Ways…
Kathy Baldock:”Trans-mockery in the House of God?”
When I wrote earlier this month that I see clear signs of a shift towards more sensitive pastoral responses to lesbians and gay men in the Catholic Church, I noted that I do not yet see any sign of corresponding…
Equal marriage news snippets
Religious organisations should be free to offer religious lesbian and gay weddings Yvette Cooper, Shadow Home Secretary, has called for the law to allow religious wedding ceremonies to be held in religious buildings, as long as that religious organisation wants…
Have your say at a gay marriage consultation
Public meetings are being held by a LGBT community organisation over the next week or two to find out what lesbians, gay men and bisexual and transsexual people think about the government’s plans for lesbian and gay civil marriages. There…
More Catholic Bishops speak about gay marriage
Bishop Michael Campbell of Lancaster said, responding to claims that Cardinal O’Brien was homophobic in his Sunday Telegraph article, “The Church is not our creation.” It is worth noting that the Bishop ignores the homophobia accusation and deflects it by…
Why Do Catholics Leave the Church? One Bishop Looks For Answers.
A Villanova University study released last week investigated the reasons why former Catholics in New Jersey had for leaving the Church. The actual results were not surprising. What I found important was how the study came about: for once, a…
Trans and Catholic: Miss Hilary Speaks Out
Yesterday, I placed an extract from Huffpost, together with some responses at Femulate, on the question, “Can One be Trans and Catholic?” In July 2011, Miss Hilary tackled ed the same question at Together Style: To be or not to…
Quakers call for equal marriage in address to the Queen
The Religious Society of Friends in Britain, generally known as the Quakers, have called on Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, to support the inclusion of same-sex couples in the definition of marriage in their address to the monarch on the…
NCR Editorial Endorses Robinson’s Call for a New Sexual Ethic
We wholeheartedly second the invitation by Australian Bishop Geoffrey Robinson for a thorough and honest reexamination of the church’s teaching on sexuality. (See story.) Robinson’s invitation, coming in a paper delivered in Baltimore at a conference sponsored by New Ways…
