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…
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Lesbian Kindergarden Head’s Sacking by Catholic Church is Allowed by Court
The European Court of Human Rights has just stepped in to order compensation is paid when the Catholic Church sacks heterosexual staff who it judges are ‘living in sin’. This decision should also help lesbians and gay men, just as…
Scottish Catholic Education Service opposes gay marriage
The Scottish Catholic Education Commission is insisting that the Scottish Government proposals for marriage equality will make it impossible for teachers in Catholic schools to teach about marriage in line with Catholic marriage doctrines, and it opposes any church or…
Christina Rosetti, Lesbian Poet (and Saint)
In the Western church, it is the Catholic tradition that is most closely associated with honouring the saints, but other denominations do too (not always using the same terminology). The Church of England, the Episcopal Church, and others in the…
Celebrating Our Relationships
One of the dangers in focussing too much in the controversies over same – sex marriage, whether in church or as civil marriage, is that of ignoring or marginalising other forms of relationship – such as civil partnerships. In our workshop…
Israeli Jewish group to allow gay rabbis
A Jewish movement in Israel has voted to allow gays to become rabbis. The middle-eastern country’s Schechter Rabbinical Seminary, which is part of the Conservative Jewish seminary, says it will begin ordaining gays and lesbians in Jerusalem in the fall.…
Sex and Catholics 4: More Weaknesses in Natural Law
Natural Law: Part 4 More Holes and Weaknesses in Natural Law and the future for sexual love Part 1 dealt with the Natural Law. Part 2 considered the male and female perspectives of Natural Law and the Church’s teachings on…
Sex and Catholics: the problems in Natural Law
Something called ‘Natural Law’ sets the ground rules for all Catholic teachings about sex. Natural Law means the only Catholic approved sex is vaginal intercourse that can lead to procreation, and only when it is between a married woman and…
Schonborn Confirms: Discrimination is NOT a Catholic Value.
Yesterday’s report from Cutting Edge that Cardinal Schonborn has confirmed the election of an openly gay man to a parish council in Austria, reversing an earlier decision by the parish priest to exclude him, deserves closer attention than I was…
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…
