As an adolescent boy in a Catholic High School staffed by priests, where daily Mass was on offer and regular confession a clear expectation, a continuing source of anguish was having to deal with confessing the “sins of impurity” which…
Tag Archive for Human sexuality
“Centre for the Study of Christianity and Sexuality”
For those who continue to think of homosexuality and Christianity as incompatible, this statement may come as a surprise, but is in fact one which is becoming accepted by a significant number of (heterosexual) people working in the field of…
Gay in Uganda – Faith and Sexuality Conference
The challenges to gay Ugandans are severe, and often aggravated by religious groups intent on stoking prejudice and worse. As Chris Morley recently reported, Catholic bishops are now backing the revived bill to criminalize homosexuality, and a government minister (an…
Sex and Catholics 3: Vatican II and Modern Specialists
Natural Law: Part 3 Vatican II and incorporating modern specialist expertise Part 1 dealt with the Natural Law. In Part 2 we considered the male and female perspectives of Natural Law and the Church’s teachings on sexual morality, and recent…
US Episcopal Presiding Bishop, on Gay Clergy And Birth Control
In the Catholic Church, US bishops have been in a froth over health care funding for contraception – even though the overwhelming majority of ordinary Catholics have been practising birth control for decades. In the UK and Australia as well…
CoE Group on Human Sexuality Appoints Advisers
The group chaired by Sir Joseph Pilling to advise the House of Bishops on the Church of England’s approach to human sexuality has appointed three advisers. They are the Revd Dr Jessica Martin, Priest-in-charge of Duxford, of Hinxton and of…
Cardinal Martini, on Gay Partnerships
I am delighted to be able to offer not just a summary, but the full text of the L’Espresso article on Cardinal Martini’s book with its support for gay partnerships. (The translation is not my own, but kindly done for…
Thinking Anglicans: Church of Ireland conference on human sexuality
As previously announced, a major conference on Human Sexuality in the Church of Ireland was held last week at the Slieve Russell Hotel, Ballyconnell, Co Cavan. Background: Last September the first civil partnership involving a cleric of the Church of…
Faith and “Internalized Homonegativity”: Contribute to Reality Based Theology.
For the first day of Lent, part of the readings referred to “taking up our cross”. One part of conventional Catholic teaching on homosexual persons, is that our orientation is the cross that we must take up, and deal with.…
Theology From Below: Catholic Conference on Sexual Diversity.
I call it “reality-based theology”, theologian Jeff Astley calls it “ordinary theology”, Tom Beaudoin at America magazine calls it “theology from below”. Whatever the words, what they have in common is the idea that theology that matters, is that which…
