It will be slow going here, the next few weeks, I’ve just started the busiest week of my year, invigilating by day, driving by night. Complicating matters is that I lost an entire day yesterday, undergoing tests at Royal Surrey…
Monthly Archives: May 2013
Caribbean Gay Group Wants Catholic Church to Support Decriminalisation
A group, which says it represent people in Dominica who are denied their rights because of their sexual orientation, is calling on the Catholic Church on the island to make its position clear concerning anti-buggery laws. MiriDom says these laws…
Gay Priest Fr Gary Meiers, In His Own Words
I’ve already written about Fr Gary Meiers, a Catholic priest who has just republished his book, ”Hidden Voices: Reflections of a Gay, Catholic Priest“, no longer anonymously but under his own name - thereby coming out about as publicly as it…
Share Your Stories - It’s a Theological Obligation.
In his useful review of Catholics theologians’ work on homosexuality, James Keenan organises his material in three broad divisions: critical reaction, specific moral theological investigations, and power, language, and experience. “Experience” then is formally included in the third of these divisions…
Queer Trinity, Queer God
My thoughts yesterday on the Trinity as emphatically not an emblem for the nuclear family, drew a strong response in a facebook message from Joseph N Goh,a doctoral student in queer theory and queer theology. In his message, he drew…
Catholic Debate Over Homosexuality - “Unavoidably an Open One”
The institutional Catholic Church often boasts proudly of its “constant and unchanging tradition” in its teaching, insisting not only that it does not change, but that, being God’s revealed truth, it simply cannot change. This is errant nonsense - any…
The Trinity is NOT a Nuclear Family.
Reports from the USA are that the Catholic Bishops have chosen the important celebration of the Trinity to encourage parishioners to oppose marriage equality. This initiative is bizarre, incomprehensible. However one views the Trinity, this is emphatically not a model of…
Gay Parents: Listen to the Kiddies (Again) (VIDEO)
18-year-old Riley Roberts delivered an emotional, compelling speech before the Nevada Assembly yesterday before it voted 27-14 to pass a resolution advancing efforts toward marriage equality in the state. With, anger, love, and some tears, Roberts moved the room, and he will…
Gay Priests, Gay Catholics: The Challenge of Honesty
In choosing to come out publicly with the republication of his book “Hidden Voices: Reflections of a Gay, Catholic Priest” under his own name, Rev. Gary Meier has raised important issues about the challenges of honesty for gay priests, more generally for…
UK Marriage Bill - More Equal Than Expected?
The Marriage (Same - Sex Couples) Bill has easily passed through its third and final reading in the House of Commons. It goes to the Lords today, where the real battles over detail, and final approval (or rejection), will take…
