The Tablet has reported that in a public address this week at London’s National Gallery, Cardinal Christoph Schonborn of Vienna gave explicit support for legal recognition of same – sex relationships. In the closing line of the brief report, was…
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French Parliament Approves Equal Marriage. More Will Follow.
A week ago today, the British lower house approved the second reading of an equal marriage bill, sending it to the committee stage for clause by clause scrutiny. Across the channel, the French equivalent to our bill has already gone…
The New Pope’s In-tray
Linking five pressing issues (listed by the Guardian) that the next pope will have to address, is a common theme sex and gender. But the these cannot be dealt with adequately without first tackling a more fundamental problem: the clerical…
A Big Day for Marriage Equality, UK – and for Queer Catholics, Worldwide
Reality is chipping away at Vatican sexual doctrine, as is clearly demonstrated by recent responses by senior Catholic prelates to public debate on gay marriage, and abortion. In the UK, it’s a big day for equal marriage, as the second…
Sane, Catholic Resource on Sexuality : “The Body is Sacred”
While I was exploring some quotations on the resource pages of the Jubilee Declaration on Church Authority, I came across an extract from a useful article on Aquinas and “Natural Law”. Following the link to the full text took me…
Bishop Robinson to Speak on Sexual Morality (Sydney)
Geoffrey Robinson became the first Catholic bishop to articulate publicly what many have thought (and possibly discussed privately) for years: that Catholic sexual doctrine is clearly disordered, and needs to be rethought from top to bottom. In March this year,…
Margaret Farley and Catholic Sexual Teaching: “Grave Harm to the Faithful”?
A favourite phrase of the Vatican when castigating those of whom they disapprove, is that they are “confusing the faithful”, used for example against New Ways Ministry. When they released their now notorious “notification” against Sr Margaret Farley’s book on…
Celibate Gay Catholics
Anyone who has given this site more than half a glance will know that as an openly gay Catholic, I believe that the Vatican line on what they call “same sex attraction”, and on the whole gamut of human sexuality, is…
German Cardinal, on Equality of Same – Sex Relationships.
According to “The Local”, an English – language German news source, an eminent German cardinal has called for equal treatment in the Church for same - sex and opposite sex relationship. But some momentum for change was evident from a…
Relationships, Not Acts: An Emerging Catholic Orthodoxy?
Recent statements by Cardinals Martini and Schonborn, and Bishop Geoffrey Robinson, have highlighted an important shift in Catholic thinking on homoerotic and other sexual ethics. Outside the isolation of the Vatican, there has been an important shift of emphasis from…
