A new Pew Research Center survey of American LGBT people and their responses to religion deserves close reading, for its extensive analysis of our community’s experience of the churches, and how it has influenced our responses to religion. For Catholics…
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Catholic LGBT Ministry, Johannesburg
In a brief entry under “News Notes” at Bondings 2.0, Francis DeBenardo refers to an entry in the University of Witwatersrand student newspaper, to a “gay -friendly Catholic Church”. This was guaranteed to catch my attention – it’s the single…
The Powerful Witness of a Catholic Gay Union.
“Witness” is the root of the very Catholic word, “martyr”. In this sense, we are all called to martyrdom. Joseph Gentilini’s “Hounded by God” is a powerful, moving example of of the witness demonstrated by one gay Catholic’s triumphant, faithful…
Joseph Gentilini and His Catholic Family
When I reached the stage of my life that I was ready to come out as gay, I was fortunate in the knowledge that I would not face the remotest risk of rejection by my family. By then into my…
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…
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…
Church of Scotland General Assembly votes to allow gay ministers
It’s happened. The Church of Scotland while not approving of gay clergy, has approved a compromise motion that will permit local congregations to take their own decisions, thus removing the fixed prohibition on openly gay and partnered gay or lesbian…
Openly Gay Priest Speaks Out
In response to the recent spate of higly visible dismissals of gay and lesbian Catholics from ministry in their parishes or schools where they worked, a Catholic priest who has previously published anonymously a book of reflections on his life…
Presbyterians Celebrate Equal Marriage: “For the World Is About to Turn”
The struggle for legal protection and recognition of same – sex partnerships is no longer a tussle between equality promoted by secular forces, and the value of marriage, defended by people of faith. (If it ever was: Mark D Jordan…
