Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Commentary: On Youth Synod Opening Door to LGBTQ Community (?!); On Latest McCarrick Revelations; On "Signs of the Times"

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Some meandering thoughts and mini-rants this morning:
Monday, October 29, 2018

Liz Dodd on the Damage That Youth Synod's Game-Playing with LGBTQ Lives Does to Those Lives and to the Church Itself

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Liz Dodd on the damage that the youth synod's game-playing with LGBTQ lives does to those lives and to the church itself, in "...
Sunday, October 28, 2018

Bishop Gene Robinson to Matt Shepard: "Welcome Home"; Catholic Youth Synod to LGBTQ People: "You Will Not Be Named in Our Heterosexual Church" — Questions for Synod Participants and Voters

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In his sermon at the interment of Matt Shepard, Bishop Gene Robinson says the following (these excerpts are from about 1:13:48 and 1:19:3...
Friday, October 26, 2018

We / They: How Refusal to Include Queer Voices in Synodal Conversations Undercuts Claims of Church about Itself as Sacramental Sign of Redemption

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“Christ made God manifest by making invisible people visible—the poor, women, all those deprived of their rights.” ~ Dorothee Sölle, ...
Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Commentary: Political Fall-Out as Catholic Bishops Face Reckoning for Covering Abuse Crimes; German Catholic Discussion of Bible and Homosexuality

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More commentary today that catches my attention, and is especially interesting when read side by side:  Patricia Miller, " I...
Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Commentary: McCarrick and Supposed "Gay Clique" in Hierarchy; Homosexuality Not Cause of Catholic Abuse Crisis; When Welcome Doesn't Really Mean Welcome

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Things I've read in the last day or so that I'd like to pass along to you — with themes that, in my view, fit together, so that...
Monday, October 22, 2018

Where Do We Go from Here, as the Future Looks More and More Bleak for LGBTQ People in the U.S.?

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So where do we go from here? I ask because I quite sincerely don't know the answer to that question. My sense is that for queer peo...