The Catholic priest who accidently showed 16 gay porn images to a group of 30 parents at a primary school in Northern Ireland is to leave the area. Father Martin McVeigh, the parish Priest of Pomeroy in County Tyrone, announced…
Monthly Archives: April 2012
Austria’s Gay Parish Councillor: A Sequel
After Cardinal Schonborn overruled a parish priest’s refusal to allow a partnered gay man to serve on his parish council, the priest concerned, Fr. Gerhard Swierzek, announced that he would be seeking another assignment, as his priestly conscience would not allow…
Equal Marriage - Catholic Tories divided
The Mail on Sunday reported that the Tory Chief Whip, Patrick McLoughlin, who is a Catholic with one of the worst voting records on lesbian and gay rights, is privately telling anxious Tory MPs that the coalition government’s plans for…
Row over Women Speakers for ‘Catholic Voices’
A row has erupted over speakers chosen by ‘Catholic Voices’ for their next training session about Women in the Church. ‘Catholic Voices’ is the lay media mouthpiece of the English and Welsh Catholic Bishops. The topic has extra relevance right…
Pope’s envoy tells Bishops: ‘get tough on gay marriage’
The Pope’s link-man to the Bishops of Great Britain, the Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Antonio Mennini, had a tough message for English and Welsh Bishops from the Pope about gay (and heterosexual) marriages. He gave the same lecture the Pope gave…
Cardinal O’Brien tells Prime Minister to deal with poverty
In a BBC interview with Cardinal Keith O’Brien of St Andrews and Edinburgh in Scotland, the Cardinal had some tough words for prime minister David Cameron about the government needing to deal with poverty. He accused the prime minister of…
Jim’s Links
One of my regrets at this site is that I never have the time (and sometimes the inclination) to follow through on all the variety of issues that need to be better known and understood, that come to my attention.…
Gove investigates Catholic school petition on gay marriage | World news | The Observer
The British Catholic Education Service could be in trouble with the law over it’s role in encouraging students to sign a petition against gay marriage: Gove investigates Catholic school petition on gay marriage The education secretary, Michael Gove, is…
CLGS Boswell Lecture, 2008: Dale B Martin.
In 2008, Dale B Martin (author of Sex and the Single Savior) delivered the John E Boswell lecture at the Centre for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the Pacific School of Religion. Watch, listen and reflect. C The Pacific…
A Voyage of Discovery & Refocussing : “Sex and the Single Saviour”
Last week, a reader and contributor who is a theology student, Advocatus Diaboli, sent me an email message strongly recommending a book by Dale B Martin, “Sex and the Single Savior“. We have been debating homosexuality and scripture for the…
