Showing posts with label homosexuality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label homosexuality. Show all posts
Thursday, February 6, 2020

A Report from Trump Country on the United Methodist Split Over Whether to Welcome LGBTQ People or Not

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This is a report from the ground, which is to say, from the white evangelical heartland of the U.S. that is solidly Trump country. It...
Monday, October 14, 2019

Newman Canonized, and Talk of His Love for Ambrose St. John Rocks the World of Macho-Heterosexist Clerics: My Thoughts

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1/ It has long been a tactic of homophobes to claim that one cannot identify people in the past as gay when they did not identify themselv...
Monday, June 3, 2019

Adriano Oliva's Amours: L'Église, les divorcés remariés, les couples homosexuels — On the Pastoral Implications of Aquinas' Recognition That Homosexuality Is Natural

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In my last posting some days ago about Adriano Oliva's  Amours: L'Église, les divorcés remariés, les couples homosexuels  (P...
Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Adriano Oliva's Amours: L'Église, les divorcés remariés, les couples homosexuels — Aquinas on Inclination to Homosexuality as Natural

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As I have promised in previous postings, I'd like to share some more reflections about Adriano Oliva’s book, Amours: L’Église, le...
Sunday, May 19, 2019

Adriano Oliva's Amours: L'Église, les divorcés remariés, les couples homosexuels — Response from a Reader re: Aquinas' Theology of Marriage

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One of my Facebook friends, Jean-François Garneau in Montréal, has responded to my recent posting  about how Adriano Oliva's book Amo...
Friday, May 17, 2019

Notes on Adriano Oliva's Amours: L'Église, les divorcés remariés, les couples homosexuels — On Sexual Relations Between Women as Less Sinful Than Sodomy

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As a footnote to what I posted yesterday regarding Adriano Oliva's book Amours: L'Église, les divorcés remariés, les couples h...
Thursday, May 16, 2019

Notes on Adriano Oliva's Amours: L'Église, les divorcés remariés, les couples homosexuels — Procreation in Aquinas' Theology of Marriage

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Back in January 2016, I shared with you some notes  about Adriano Oliva's book  Amours: L'Église, les divorcés remariés, les ...
Thursday, March 28, 2019

Frédéric Martel's In the Closet of the Vatican: Concluding Remarks About Why This Book Matters — The Extensive Damage Done by a System "Perverted Since the Outset"

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I've now finished reading Frédéric Martel's In the Closet of the Vatican , and want to share some concluding thoughts about the...
Thursday, March 14, 2019

The Pell Conviction in Light of Frédéric Martel's Exposé of the Gay "Parish" Inside the Vatican: Twisted Connection of Catholic Officials to Gay Community

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Comment: George Pell thought the boys would never tell. One did - and millions believe https://t.co/jiNu0Ysv2Y — The Sydney Morning Hera...
Sunday, February 24, 2019

Frédéric Martel's In the Closet of the Vatican: Valuable Commentary — "A Dishonest System Cannot Demand Honesty"

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I have not read Frédéric Martel's explosive new book In the Closet of the Vatican , about which there has been a flurry of commen...
Saturday, December 22, 2018

Father Prado on Pope Francis: Wants to Deny Access to Priesthood to Gays Because He's Catholic — I Have Questions

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Father Fernando Prado, author of the book  The Strength of Vocation , in which he interviews Pope Francis and gets the pope on record...
Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Why Blaming Gay Priests for Catholic Abuse Situation Will Not Help Anything (Plus News about Cardinal Pell, Anti-Gay Hardliner)

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As I posted my posting two days ago  with an assortment of reports about the sexual abuse of vulnerable people in Christian churches,...
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...
Thursday, October 18, 2018

Was Dietrich Bonhoeffer Gay? Diane Reynolds' The Doubled Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer on the Biographical-Theological Evidence

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Diane Reynolds,  The Doubled Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Women, Sexuality, and Nazi Germany  (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2016) ...
Friday, September 21, 2018

Charles Marsh's Biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Strange Glory, on Bonhoeffer's (Highly Contested) Homosexuality

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Here's another set of excerpts I'd like to share with you from Charles Marsh's excellent biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer,  ...
Wednesday, September 19, 2018

What Do Discussions of the Abuse Crisis in the Catholic Church Have to Do with the Kavanaugh Hearing? A Lot

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Ellen interviews Shelly Fitzgerald, who is threatened with firing by Roncalli Catholic High in Indianapolis for her same-sex marriage. ...
Thursday, August 30, 2018

Footnote to Previous Posting: On John Thavis' Testimony re: How Vatican Press Corps Cheered When Benedict Was Elected

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A footnote to what I posted earlier today providing some recent commentary on the Viganò story: did you notice in the article by Mic...
Friday, June 15, 2018

We Are Church Ireland to Pope Francis: Would Jesus Define People as Objectively Disordered or Intrinsically Evil?

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As Sarasi pointed out in a comment here several days ago, We Are Church Ireland now has a petition online at Change.org with the fol...
Wednesday, May 23, 2018

"One of the Battles of Our Time Is About Who the Story Is About, Who Matters and Who Decides": Southern Baptist Leader Deposed, Chilean Bishops Resign, Pope Said to Affirm Gay Man

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Why is #SWBTS trending? Paige Patterson, a prominent Southern Baptist leader, was removed as seminary president following controversial...
Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Desiring God on Why Homosexuality Is Not Like Other Sins: A Response

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they’re finally saying what they’ve never been bold enough to say pic.twitter.com/oGSFUYnigO — Broderick Greer (@BroderickGreer) April 23...