Showing posts with label family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label family. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Thanksgiving Dinner with the Forebears: Questions I'd Love to Ask

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A wild change of subject from my usual political-religious analysis (some might say rants): I don't want U.S. Thanksgiving to recede too...
Saturday, February 9, 2019

Remembering a Grandfather on the Anniversary of His Death: "Everything, in Time, Gets Lost"

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As I've said here before, Daniel Mendelsohn's book The Lost is one of the most powerful books I've read in my long li...
Thursday, December 6, 2018

My Father at Pearl Harbor As It Was Bombed, and DNA Discoveries in Genealogical Research: An Account

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My father, Benjmain Dennis Lindsey, Jr., at Pearl Harbor during WWII (on left). This is one of those "personal" posting...
Thursday, August 23, 2018

Google Top Stories Featuring Catholic Homophobic Bile in "Top Stories" re: World Meeting of Families

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Look at the Catholic homophobic bile Google is billing right now as its set of "top stories" if you google Fr. James Marti...

Refusal of Catholic Hierarchy to Get Abuse Situation Parallels Refusal to Get LGBTQ People: World Meeting of Families Reminds Us, It's Not Going to Get Better

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Massive media turnout for lgbtq choir singing “Something Inside So Strong,” an Anti-Apartheid song, outside the walls of the World Meetin...
Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Two Obituaries, Two Very Different Stories of What Family Is About: Who Counts, Who Doesn't, and the Role Churches Play

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Two obituaries, two very different stories about what family is about — who counts, who doesn't, who is included, who may be excl...
Sunday, September 10, 2017

People Who Have Been Told That Their Gifts and Talents Don't Count: Unearthing Buried Stories of LGBT Family Members

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I shared some of this story here a number of years back. Because I told the story again on Facebook today and a Facebook friend encou...
Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Unearthing Hidden LGBTQ Stories in Family History Research: The Mirror That Reflects Nothing Back

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A warning before you dive in: this is one of those postings about one of my particular interests, tracking family history. And so it ...
Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Catholic Scholars Ask About Silence of Liberal Catholics re: LGBTQ Issues as They Praise Amoris Laetitia, While Vatican Official Attacks LGBTQ Community

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About a month ago, I summed up  my response to so-called liberal or progressive Catholics who praise the recent papal document on the...
Friday, April 22, 2016

Two More Takes on Amoris Laetitia — Daniel Maguire and Carol Christ: "The Document Should Have Been Called The Joy of Heterosexual Love"

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Two more takes on Amoris Laetitia  that friends or readers of this blog have recommended to me: the first is by Catholic moral theolo...
Wednesday, April 20, 2016

A Question for "Liberal" Catholics Now Praising Amoris Laetitia: What Kind of Holiness Is Purchased at the Price of Making LGBTQ Lives Miserable?

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Conferences (when they're good) become thinking spaces for me. At many thought-provoking, energizing meetings like the one we atten...
Thursday, April 14, 2016

Keeping the Conversation about Amoris Laetitia Real: "There Are Absolutely No Grounds for Considering Homosexual Unions to Be in Any Way Similar or Even Remotely Analogous to God’s Plan for Mar­riage and Family"

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Father Francis X. Clooney looks at Pope Francis's statement in Amoris Laetitia  (§251) that there are absolutely no grounds for c...
Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Keeping the Conversation about Amoris Laetitia Real: New Commentary by Mary Hunt, Jeannine Gramick, and Massimo Faggioli

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Good morning! Are you as tired as I am of hearing about Amoris Laetitia ? I know full well I have made myself tiresome talking about ...
Monday, April 11, 2016

Keeping the Conversation about Amoris Laetitia Real: "Everyone Uses and Throws Away, Takes and Breaks, Exploits and Squeezes to the Last Drop. Then, Goodbye"

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I'm now reading Amoris Laetitia — slowly — and am taking some notes on it. Here's a passage from §39 that makes me stop and thin...
Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Father Thomas Reese on John Paul II As a Loving Grandfather: Whose Experience of the Church Counts, As Pope Francis's Exhortation on the Family Is Published?

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Father Thomas Reese thinks John Paul II came across as "a loving but benighted grandfather." And as I read that baffling o...
Monday, December 28, 2015

National Catholic Reporter Editorializes: "How Will We As a Church Live with Our Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Brothers and Sisters?"

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Let the Church always be a place of mercy and hope, where everyone is welcomed, loved and forgiven. — Pope Francis (@Pontifex) June 16, ...
Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Detroit Free Press Article About Gay Couple Who Are Active Catholics: An Image of the Divided U.S. Catholic Church

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If you're looking for a rather neat snapshot of the two theological universes that coexist uneasily in American Catholicism today...
Monday, November 30, 2015

In Holiday Season, Reminder That LGBT Folks Often Experience Exclusion and Isolation from Family: Derrick De Lise on How Homophobia Hurts

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In this holiday season, I want to share with you a timely reminder from blogger Derrick De Lise, who publishes the journal Queer Voi...
Friday, November 20, 2015

On History and the Importance of Remembering: An American Family Story for You

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I think that perhaps too many postings from me are a big bore. They bore me, if no one else in the world. With that warning, I have t...
Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Ragged Questions After the Synod — Deafening Silence About How the Homosexuals Took Another One Upside the Head to Facilitate Pastoral Breakthrough for Everyone Else

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A stray (but not really) thought as we pack for our drive back home in a few minutes: