Showing posts with label John McNeill. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John McNeill. Show all posts
Sunday, September 27, 2015

Pope Francis on Families and Their Gifts, John McNeill and Margaret Farley on Fruitfulness of Gay Relationships: Generativity Depends on Ecclesial and Social Support

›
What Catholic theologian John McNeill is pointing to in the quotation I shared with you yesterday  is very much like what Catholic th...
Saturday, September 26, 2015

Remembering John McNeill, As Doors Slam Shut on Thousands at World Meeting of Families

›
As several of you have noted in comments here in the past few days, on the day on which Pope Francis arrived in the U.S., noted t...
Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Gabriel Daly on Irish Vote as "Caring for a Wounded Minority Who Were Strangers in Their Own Community": Contrasting Irish and American Catholic Values

›
Catholic theologian (and priest) Gabriel Daly commenting in The Tablet on the deeply Catholic theological underpinnings of the recen...
Monday, November 7, 2011

Tom Fox: After Avila Debacle, Shifting the Catholic Discussion to Focus on Gifts of Gay Persons

›
I appreciate National Catholic Reporter  editor Tom Fox for publishing his recent statement about how Catholics might begin reframing ...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Telling the Story of Gay Love: Overcoming Internalized Homophobia as a First Step

›
We're still on the road, though hope to be settled in by this evening--at which point, I will have more time to blog again. I'm s...
Thursday, June 10, 2010

John McNeill on the Elimination of the All-Male, Celibate Priesthood in the Catholic Church

›
One of the gifts the internet has given us is the opportunity to read blogs by scholars of the stature of John McNeill.  Previously, thos...
Monday, May 17, 2010

John McNeill on Benedict's Most Recent Attack on Gay Marriage: What Alternative Universe Does the Pope Inhabit?

›
John McNeill has outstanding commentary on Pope Benedict's remarks in Portugal last week at his Spiritual Transformation blog.  And J...
Wednesday, April 28, 2010

John McNeill on the Theology of Fallibility and Urgent Need for Catholic Reformation: Judaism and Christianity as Religions of the Collapsing Temple

›
 John McNeill continues to post provocative (and prophetic) theological statements on his new Spiritual Transformation blog.  The latest i...
Wednesday, April 21, 2010

John McNeill on Theology of Fallibility and the LGBT Community: Total Absence of Love and Compassion in Hierarchy's Gay Scapegoating

›
I just spoke of Hans Küng’s vast learning and obvious love for the church, and of my own determination to keep listening to him for those r...
Monday, April 5, 2010

John McNeill's "Spiritual Transformation" Blog: Another Absolutely Necessary Voice

›
  In the past several days, I’ve been noting voices that are absolutely necessary for us to hear at this moment in which many members of th...
Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Supreme Court Opens Bridgeport Catholic Abuse Files: Putting Broken Hearts Back Together

›
The U.S. Supreme Court this week turned down the appeal of the Connecticut Catholic diocese of Bridgeport to keep its clergy personnel file...
Thursday, July 2, 2009

John Boswell on Christianity and Homosexuality: Antigay Theology as Defense of Patriarchy

›
From a journal entry dated Sept. 1990: I've been reading John Boswell, Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality (Chicago: Univ. ...
Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Renegotiating Gender Roles, Building Gay-Inclusive Societies: The Continuing Task

›
Another of those blast-from-the-past postings, which retrieve material I’m finding in my journals from previous years, as I page through the...
Sunday, March 29, 2009

John McNeill's Prophetic Gay Theology: Sex As God Intended (2)

›
One of John McNeill’s most significant contributions to Christian theology is his carefully worked-out insistence that gay and lesbian human...
Friday, March 27, 2009

John McNeill's Prophetic Gay Theology: Sex As God Intended

›
I’ve noted several times recently that I have just finished reading John McNeill’s latest book, Sex As God Intended (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe...
Friday, March 13, 2009

Open Season on Gays, Catholic Bishops Leading the Way: The Connecticut Debacle

›
In his marvelous new book Sex As God Intended that I plan to review for this blog and other publications, theologian John J. McNeill states,...
Sunday, February 22, 2009

John McNeill's Prophetic Witness to the Churches: Enough of the Denial of Gay Love!

›
Jesuit theologian John McNeill has long been a hero of mine. When I could not find a vocabulary to name the love I experience as a gay man ...
Thursday, August 7, 2008

Theological Reflections on Gay Marriage: Prologue

›
Yesterday the Huffington Post blog site posted a link to a Ruth Gledhill article in the Times (London), which publishes some of Rowan Willia...