We are by now familiar with the yawning gulf between some Catholic bishops’ fulminations against equal marriage and the strong support by ordinary Catholics (including many politicians, lawyers and activists who have instrumental in bringing about the gains achieved thus…
Monthly Archives: June 2013
Exodus Intemational: Ex - Gay Efforts Are Un - Christian
Exodus International has finally accepted reality. It has acknowledged that “ex - gay” reparative therapy does not work, it has apologised for the harm it has done by insisting that gay men and lesbians should attempt to become straight, and…
Marianne T. Duddy-Burke: Is the Catholic Church Unfriendly to LGBT People?
A new Pew Research Center survey of American LGBT people and their responses to religion deserves close reading, for its extensive analysis of our community’s experience of the churches, and how it has influenced our responses to religion. For Catholics…
how do you know your gender is non-binary?
Just one of the many problems underlying the opposition to marriage equality, and more broadly the theology of sexuality, is a simplistic assumption that humans divide neatly into two biological sexes, and two genders to coincide with them. It just…
Gay Marriage, Civil Unions, and the Church
June is a big month for marriage equality. In the UK, it’s now clear that the House of Lords will approve the Marriage (Same - Sex Partners) Bill, in the USA, the Supreme Court will make two rulings that will…
Yet Another Cardinal Supporting Same - Sex Unions.
In yet another sign of a softening of the Catholic approach to same - sex unions, Cardinal Godfried Danneels, archbishop emeritus of Mechelen-Brussels, has added his voice to the rapidly growing list of Catholic bishops and other senior or influential clergy who…
Catholic LGBT Ministry, Johannesburg
In a brief entry under “News Notes” at Bondings 2.0, Francis DeBenardo refers to an entry in the University of Witwatersrand student newspaper, to a “gay -friendly Catholic Church”. This was guaranteed to catch my attention - it’s the single…
New Mexico Religious Leaders in Support of Gay Marriage
Marriage equality is in the news in New Mexico, the only US state where there is not explicit legislation either to provide or prohibit it. This has given rise to three same - sex couples instituting legal proceedings for marriage…
Authentic Catholicism: Feeding the Homeless, San Francisco
To judge from press reports, an outsider could easily be misled into the perception that an obsession with genitals and what we do about them, is an important part of Catholicism. It isn’t. Formally, sexual matters fall into what is…
The Powerful Witness of a Catholic Gay Union.
“Witness” is the root of the very Catholic word, “martyr”. In this sense, we are all called to martyrdom. Joseph Gentilini’s “Hounded by God” is a powerful, moving example of of the witness demonstrated by one gay Catholic’s triumphant, faithful…
