“May is Mary’s month”, wrote the homosexual Jesuit priest and poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and also a time of (theoretical) spring, an appropriate time for gay men’s thoughts to turn to – not love, but the rosary. Taking his lead…
Spirituality
Queer Stations of the Cross: Introduction, and Station 1
For Catholics, an important Lenten devotion is to pray the Stations of the Cross. For queer Catholics, this devotion now has added relevance with a series of paintings by the artist Mary Burton, who has completed a series on the…
A Prayer for Those Ministering to the LGBT Community
A reader who describes himself as “closted”, and is a Catholic priest, has sent me a link to a moving prayer by Sr Joan Chittester, OSB, which is explicit in its appeal for support of those proclaiming Jesus’ name to…
Let Us Remember, for Nov 30th:
Blessed Bernardo de Hoyos: “The Spouse of Christ” from Queer Saints and Martyrs: In Catholic spiritual tradition, there is an important and honoured place for the idea of “The Bride of Christ”. At one level, we are taught to think…
Let Us Remember, for Nov 1st: All (Gay) Saints
Are there gay saints? Some sources say clearly yes, listing numerous examples. Others dispute the idea, saying either that the examples quoted are not officially recognised, or denying that they were gay because we do not know that they were…
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…
Henri Nouwen, on Andrew Sullivan and the “Blessing” of Homosexuality
Andrew Sullivan’s new book, Virtually Normal: An Argument about homosexuality, is on of the most intelligent and convincing pleas for complete social acceptability I have ever read. Andrew Sullivan is a Catholic. He is just as open about being a…
A Queer tale of Oscar Wilde’s friends: the Catholic Priest and his lover, a Dominican Brother
Amid all the Queen’s diamond jubilee nonsense, the queer Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence picnicked on Carlton Hill in Edinburgh yesterday, after visiting key sites in Edinburgh’s gay and lesbian history: ‘Old Queens’ alternative jubilee picnic The Sisters were formed in…
Catholics, Christians and faith communities living with HIV
People with faith who are living with HIV often experience difficulties in finding sympathetic or understanding people in faith communities or families, to whom HIV positive believers can be open about living with HIV. Even within HIV support services, views…
Poll finds widespread Muslim & Sikh support for gay rights
From Politics Report: A survey of ethnic and religious attitudes in Britain has discovered a startling liberal approach to gay rights in the Muslim community and what appears to be a major shift in opinion since 2009. The poll, conducted…
