Fr Robert Carter, Priest and Gay Activist “Since Jesus had table fellowship with social outcasts and sinners, those rejected by the religious establishment of his time, I consider myself to have been most fully a Jesuit, a ‘companion of Jesus,’…
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Another Gay Catholic Blog
Or perhaps not quite so Catholic, but still Christian. “A Brave Faith” describes the site in the strapline as ”One gay Christian’s journey towards authenticity“, and at the foot of the page, adds “About abravefauth: 42 year old gay Christian finding…
Epiphany: Soho Masses Community Celebrate the Feast of Coming Out
Yesterday, January 6th, the Church celebrated the great Feast of the Epiphany – the feast where Jesus is shown to the world, revealed. Where he comes out. At the Church of the Assumption, Warwick Street, the Soho Masses community celebrated…
Walking in Our Shoes
Here’s an interesting ethical dilemma. We know that some churches and some pastors have decided they will not act as marriage officers for heterosexual couples, until they can do so for all couples. We also know that some opposite sex…
A Gay Catholic Coming Out Story
For National Coming Out Day, Enrique Molina has shared his own coming out story, as pne raised in a deeply religious Catholic home. Religion has always played a major part of my life. Officially a Roman Catholic, I also attended and…
Ex – gay “therapies” a danger to health: Pan American Health Organization – Organización Panamericana de la Salud
Services that purport to “cure” people with non-heterosexual sexual orientation lack medical justification and represent a serious threat to the health and well-being of affected people, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said in a position statement launched on 17…
New Zealand: Presbyterian Minister Calls For Gay Inclusion
A prominent Presbyterian cleric has called for the Presbyterian Church to drop its policy of refusing to ordain openly gay people as ministers. The Reverend Dr Allan Davidson ONZM was before his retirement for 27 years a theologian and teacher…
Our Stories: “I went to my ex-lover’s funeral as his son”
As we share our stories, it’s important to remember that they’re not all tears and trauma. Mark Dowd, among much else a prominent gay Catholic and member of the Soho Masses Pastoral Council, calls this part of his own story…
Remembering Peter Gomes: Black, Gay, Baptist Pastor
Peter Gomes, who died a year ago today, was an anomaly in the growing ranks of out and open gay or lesbian clergy: he was raised Catholic, but became a Baptist pastor. He was also African American, and a Republican.…
Beginning the Lenten Journey: Take the Rainbow Bridge to God.
As I listened to the readings in Mass this morning, I was struck by the prominence of the rainbow. I doubt that when the early pioneers of the gay liberation movement adopted it as a symbol, they were thinking in…
