/last week, Fr Geoff Farrow had some excellent commentary on this week’s gains for marriage equality, reading into it a lesson on why we must burst down those closet doors - and, unexpectedly, on the hidden blessings in the Prop h8 disappointment.…
Monthly Archives: November 2012
Gay Affirming Book on Homosexuality, Bible - in Burmese!
I have written before (repeatedly) on the explosion of gay - affirming books on homosexuality and the Bible, that are challenging the traditional assumptions that Christian belief and homoerotic love are incompatible. From the early pioneers that challenged the familiar…
Clerical Sexual Abuse: The Crisis Is Exploding in Australia
At Enlightened Catholicism, Colkoch writes “I’m Not Iventifacting. The Clerical Abuse Crisis Is Exploding in Australia”, And no, she’s not inventifacting. I’ve been watching this thing blowing up for some time, and it really is exploding. I had not got around…
Catholic Rebellion on Gay Marriage: US - and Italy
In the wake of Tuesday’s election, the US Catholic rebellion against their bishops was widely noted. Most notable in Minnesota, where the bishops devoted huge sums of cash and energy to entrench marriage discrimination in the state constitution, but also…
Let Us Remember, for Nov 9th:
The cross-dressing saints of the Church. From Queer Saints and Martyrs: St Matrona / Babylas of Perge, Cross-dressing Saint? St Matrona /Babylas of Perge is one of a number of female saints in the early church who dressed as men…
Minnesota Priest Calls for Bishop’s Resignation
In the wake of Minnesota’s clear support for marriage equality it’s not surprising that Twin Cities Archbishop John Nienstedt, who was such a prominent cheerleader and funder of the amendment to entrench discrimination in the state constitution, should be disappointed in…
US Election’s Big Winners: LGBT (and Straight Ally) Catholics
Even before voting began, National Catholic Reporter had an intriguing observation in its editorial: irrespective of the results, there would be three big winners this election, and one of them would be Our gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender brothers and…
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…
The British “Call to Action”: Continuing the Process
One day last month, while the Catholic bishops of the world continued their synod in Rome to mark the 50th anniversary of Vatican II and the start of the year of faith, I joined something like 400 other English Catholics,…
“Invisible Parents” (Video)
