Leah Mickens: "Reason Why Feminists and LGBT People Get So Much Crap from the Hierarchy and Their Conservotrad Enablers Is Because They Demand Honesty in Sexual Issues"

Brilliant commentary from Leah Mickens of the blog Extra Ecclesiam Est Libertas: Leah's writing in response to my previous posting today, which ends by pointing readers to a surrealistic conversation the blogger who maintains Questions from a Ewe had recently with several African priests about matters of priestly celibacy (they don't necessarily heart it) and the synod and holding the line on the gays and divorced folks (they do heart holding that line).

Quote for Day: Leah Mickens on "Benedict Option" and Need for Control on Part of (Straight) White Men

Leah Mickens on the "Benedict option" (countercultural, combative Christian withdrawal from mainstream society) and how this option (curiously) seems to appeal primarily to straight white men — so that it cannot be adequately evaluated without noticing its gendered and racialized roots:

Leah Mickens: Broadening Catholic Conversations About a "Culture of Life" by Talking About Issues Like Racial Injustice

I'm posting this to recommend to you a series of articles Leah Mickens has published at her Extra Ecclesiam Est Libertas site, critiquing the "culture of life" rhetoric of many traditionalist Catholics. Here's a taste that will, I hope, whet your appetite to read the entire set of Leah's articles on this topic — the following from part one of Leah's series: