Monday, May 31, 2010

The Gay Purge in Catholic Seminaries: Washing the Gay Right Out of Our Hair

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Paul Vitello reports today in the New York Times on the implementation of the Vatican directives that call for a gay purge in Catholic s...
Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Retreat, Day One: In Which James Taylor and Carole King Sing, and I Say Yes

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The bell has rung for grand silence. But I’ve spent the whole day in silence, and the bell only loosens my tongue, makes me want to begi...
Monday, May 24, 2010

On Retreat: Grateful for Readers' Advice and Support

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Thank you all, profoundly so, for your replies and encouragement after my last posting. I'm going through a soul-searching, life-asse...
Thursday, May 20, 2010

Catholic Officials Continue Attacks on Women, and Yours Truly Has Had It

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I haven’t commented yet on two recent stories that, in my view, have a shared theme.  That theme links, in ways clear to me, but perhaps n...

The Ladies of Llangollen: On the Continued Need to Reclaim Gay History and Celebrate Gay Lives

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A reader whose insights I value very much wrote me several days ago to ask about Elizabeth Mavor’s book The Ladies of Llangollen (London: ...
Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Bill Halter Runs Even with Blanche Lincoln: A Report from the Ground

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One final news update--this one from the ground: as most readers will know from the international media, in the first round of primary vot...

Mid-Week News Update: Stories from Marquette, Boston, Vatican, Portugal, and Malawi

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A mid-week news update: articles that have either caught my attention because they seem to me to deserve careful reading, or because th...