From the Tablet, Wednesday 11th March: A leading cardinal has said that same-sex relationships should be respected and recognised in law amid signs of a change in church thinking on the subject. Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, the Archbishop of Vienna, made…
Monthly Archives: April 2013
Gay Marriage: Where Next?
The passage of marriage equality in Uruguay will take to fourteen the number of countries where equal marriage applies country wide, either by legislative means (eleven), or de facto by court ruling (Mexico, Brazil). Several more are preparing to follow.…
Equal Marriage for Catholic Uruguay!
Support for marriage equality is making such rapid progress, with voters and with American politicians, that a major landmark in South America passed by with hardly any notice, when the Uruguay senate approved legislation for equal marriage. Yesterday the congressional lower…
“Poisoning the Holy Water”: How the Church is Turning Away Young People.
At la lucha ma pulpito, delfinwaldemar has posted an open letter to the church by an unnamed “college kid who misses you”, with a Youtube video of the Macklemore song “Same Love”, about which the writer is seriously enthusiastic. I…
“Speak the Truth in Love” - and Get Suspended by the Catholic Church?
18. The Lord Jesus promised, “You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free” (Jn. 8:32). Scripture bids us speak the truth in love (cf. Eph. 4:15). The God who is at once truth and love calls…
Gay Catholics: The Other Side of Pastoral Practice
Since rwriting yesterday about how Cardinal Dolan ‘s fine words, about the need to offer “more support” to gay Catholics are directly contradicted by the scandalous example of a deeply committed member of a Long Island parish who was booted…
Gay Catholics: Cardinals’ Actions Contradict Their Fine Words
Over the Easter weekend, Cardinal Timothy Dolan spoke of the need to be more supportive of LGBT Catholics, and Cardinal Wuerl, saying that gay Catholics who married could be treated in the same way as divorced people, claimed that this…
Cardinal Wuerl: Married Gay Catholics “Not a Great Problem”
It’s been obvious for a long time that as equal marriage becomes increasingly inevitable, as ordinary Catholics show their direct support for all Catholic relationships and families without discrimination on sexual or gender grounds, the bishops will be forced to…
DignityUSA Asks to Meet With Cardinal Dolan
Dignity USA has responded to Cardinal Dolan’s statement on Easter Sunday that the Church needs to be more “more open” to gays and lesbians, but that he doesn’t know how to do that, with a request for a meeting. For…
Cardinal Timothy Dolan: “Catholic Church needs better outreach to gays”
Cardinal Timothy Dolan acknowledged on Sunday that there was still much to do to make the church welcoming to gay and lesbian Catholics. “We gotta do better to see that our defense of marriage is not reduced to an…
