After an unusually long gap between Masses, last night’s gathering at Farm Street demonstrated that the Soho Masses Community is unquestionably alive and kicking - and ready a new, expansionary phase (just as the previous move from St Anne’s to…
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An Exciting Time to be Gay and Catholic?
A few years ago, I wrote about James Alison’s view that it was becoming an exciting time to be gay and Catholic - because the overwhelming evidence that same - sex affectional orientation is an entirely natural and non-pathological part…
Henri Nouwen, on Andrew Sullivan and the “Blessing” of Homosexuality
Andrew Sullivan’s new book, Virtually Normal: An Argument about homosexuality, is on of the most intelligent and convincing pleas for complete social acceptability I have ever read. Andrew Sullivan is a Catholic. He is just as open about being a…
Gay Marriage: Catholic Diversity Expressed in England and Wales
27 prominent Catholics in England & Wales have signed a letter to The Times newspaper expressing a right to differ from Catholic bishops over the Government’s proposals for equal civil marriage for same sex couples. The letter, published this morning,…
“Intrinsically disordered”, the Vatican preserves pathologising of LGBT sexuality
Updated and corrected “Intrinsically disordered” is the troubling Vatican description of Catholic and other people who are lesbian, bisexual or gay. It first appeared way back in December 1975 when strictly speaking the label was used to describe sex acts,…
Pope Benedict, and the gay condition.
After I posed the question last week, “Is Pope Benedict Gay”, I met an outraged response at a couple of orthotoxic Catholic sites, and several hostile comments were placed to my post, mostly alleging that I had slandered the pope…
Introducing Gay Catholic Theologian, James B Nickoloff
Dr James B Nickoloff is an openly gay, Catholic theologian, who unlike many others to whom that description applies, is working in an eminently respectable corner of the Catholic academy. He is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the College…
Bishop Robinson: Sexual Acts, or Relationships?
Concluding his three arguments against the traditional sexual theology of the Catholic Church, Bishop Geoffrey Robinson makes a very short, simple point: the emphasis on that teaching, on the physical acts rather than on the relationships between the persons, is…
Is Pope Benedict Gay?
The question has been often asked, and sometimes answered by way of speculation amounting to not much more than guesswork or innuendo based largely on observations on the devoted, ever present and attentive gorgeous Georg, or the expensive Prada red shoes,…
Alison:Does “Objectively Disordered” Mean Anything At All?
In the CDF Hallowe’en Letter, possibly the most offensive and damaging element was the labelling of the homosexual orientation as “intrinsically disordered” - but just what does “disordered” in fact mean? Science has shown from mental health and from animal…
