When we read “clerical abuse”, as we have done so often in recent years, the chances are our minds interpret “Catholic”, “sexual”, and “child”. The problem however, is far wider and deeper than that. The specifically Catholic sexual abuse scandals…
Monthly Archives: October 2012
The Conservative, Catholic Case for Gay Adoption
Catholic bishops regularly reminded us that in matters of adoption, what matters most is the “best interests of the child”, and not principles of equality or rights of the adoptive parents. I agree completely. The tragedy is that too often,…
A Gay Catholic Coming Out Story
For National Coming Out Day, Enrique Molina has shared his own coming out story, as pne raised in a deeply religious Catholic home. Religion has always played a major part of my life. Officially a Roman Catholic, I also attended and…
Blessed Are the Queer in Faith: Introduction and Summary
This year’s national conference of Quest, the British association for lesbian and gay Catholics, had as its theme “60 Glorious Years”, tying in with Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee year. For my presentation, I took as my title, “Blessed Are the…
“Blessed Are the Queer in Faith”: Quest Presentation, 2012
For it’s annual conference this year Quest (a British association for lesbian and gay Catholics), took as its theme the jubilee year, “60 Glorious Years”. I was privileged to contribute a presentation on 60 years of progress towards queer inclusion…
Matthew Shephard: Nourished by the Blood of a Gay Martyr
“The blood of martyrs is the seed of the Church” -Tertullian, 2nd century Other formulations of the same idea have described the Church as “nourished” by the blood of its martyrs. It is well known that in the first three…
Let Us Remember, for October 10th
Vida Dutton Scudder, American Lesbian Saint for Our Times Vida Dutton Scudder is a rare example of a modern lesbian who is a recognized Christian saint (recognized by the US Episcopal Church, not the Roman Catholics). Her work and message…
Queer Theology, Spirituality: An “Old Catholic” Perspective
On my QTC Facebook page, the Most Reverend Lou A. Bordisso, bishop emeritus of the Catholic Diocese of California and a member of the (Old Catholic) Order of St. John Vianney, left a link to an article he has written at Benedicia…
Austrian Church Reform: Cardinal Schonborn’s Balancing Act
Faced with an impossible task of attempting to address the real need for radical church reform as addressed by the Austrian Priests’ Initiative, and supported by the majority of the country’s Catholics, but constrained by the practicality that the most…
Hildegard of Bingen: Doctor of the Church
With the news that Hildegard of Bingen is one of the two people that Benedict has just named as doctors of the church, I repost below a portion of my post on her, in my series on “Queer Saints and…
