Showing posts with label sexual morality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sexual morality. Show all posts
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...
Monday, August 20, 2018

Anthea Butler Responds to Pope's Statement re: Clergy Sex Crimes: "Stop Passing the Buck Onto the People of God Instead of the Catholic Hierarchy"

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That's not the issue. The issue is, the cycles of revelation of the malfeasance of the church and the hierarchy in protecting their ow...
Monday, February 19, 2018

I Learn to Read and Am Given a Bible-Story Book: A Southern Baptist Boy in 1950s Arkansas Learns the Facts of Life

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I am six years old. I have just learned to read. It is 1956. Television has come on the scene. But we read, tell each other stories, ra...
Saturday, November 11, 2017

Charles Pierce on Roy Moore as Exactly What Republicans Are All About Now: "Wake Up and Smell the White Supremacist Theocracy"

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I'd rather have a pedophile in office rather than a democrat any day of the week and twice on Sunday. Pedophiles only screw kids whil...
Tuesday, October 24, 2017

"Some People Get Uninvited from Talks. Some People Never, Ever Get Even an Invitation to the Table at All": Mary Hunt, Marianne Duddy-Burke, Jamie Manson NCR Podcast Conversation

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I've previously recommended to you Mary Hunt, Marianne Duddy-Burke, and Jamie Manson's essay at National Catholic Reporter  entit...
Monday, October 9, 2017

Cahill and Wilkinson's Child Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church on How Humanae Vitae Undermines Sexual Ethic of Catholic Church

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As a complement to what I just posted about how the U.S. Catholic bishops and Republican party brought right-wing white evangelicals ...
Sunday, September 10, 2017

Opening to "Dialogue" in U.S. Catholicism and the Fracas Involving Father James Martin and Austin Ruse: My Take

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I see mention online of some kind of fracas involving Father James Martin and Austin Ruse — or perhaps "fracas" is not the ...
Saturday, August 12, 2017

National Catholic Reporter Calls for Dialogue on Sexual Ethics: My Response

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My new denomination hosted the counter protest in C'ville; my old one is still complaining about women getting to use birth control...
Wednesday, December 28, 2016

On the "Incorrect" "Homosexual": The Catholic Magisterium, Father Dwight Longenecker, and Asking the Wrong Questions in the Age of Trump (2)

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There's a reason my previous posting built to a question about what kind of institution produces people who think about gender a...
Tuesday, October 11, 2016

"The Donald Took Evangelicals to a Very High, Huge, Really, Just the Best Vantage Point on Trump Tower and Showed Them All the Riches": Commentary on the Wreckage That is White American Christianity After Trump

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Evangelical crypt keeper Pat Robertson excuses the misogynistic talk in Trump tapes as "macho" https://t.co/u1jIiDChpQ — Jonath...
Friday, August 26, 2016

When We Already Know That Every Zygote Is a Baby, Why Waste Time Looking at Scientific Evidence? A Footnote

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I have a few more things to say about about the dishonesty of those who want to use natural law theology to argue that a zygote has u...
Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Questions from a Ewe Responds to Archbishop Chaput About Excluding the "Irregular" from the Sacraments: "Here's What I Suggest. Walk Up to Your Local Priest and Ask about His Sex Life"

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In recently published commentary on Archbishop Chaput's newly released guidelines to deal with "irregularities" in disp...
Sunday, April 24, 2016

Colleen Kochivar-Baker on Michael Voris Story: "Voris Very Much Reminds Me of the Donald . . . a Walking Talking Personality Disorder"

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Colleen Kochivar-Baker's stellar comment here yesterday, in response to the story about Michael Voris revealing his gay past tha...
Friday, April 22, 2016

Michael Voris of Church Militant Addresses His Gay Past in Shocker Video Statement

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Does this come to the rest of you as the shock it is to me? 
Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Adriano Oliva's Amours: L'Église, les divorcés remariés, les couples homosexuels: Book Notes

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I've just finished reading the new book by the noted French Dominican Thomist scholar Reverend Adriano Oliva, Amours: L'Églis...
Saturday, October 24, 2015

Religión Digital Publishes Interview with Monsignor Krzysztof Charamsa: "The Church Preaches Mercy, But Does It Not Keep on Persecuting Homosexuals?"

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Yesterday, the Spanish journal Religión Digital published an interview  with the gay Polish priest who came out of the closet in a pu...
Thursday, October 22, 2015

Leah Mickens: "Reason Why Feminists and LGBT People Get So Much Crap from the Hierarchy and Their Conservotrad Enablers Is Because They Demand Honesty in Sexual Issues"

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Brilliant commentary from Leah Mickens of the blog Extra Ecclesiam Est Libertas : Leah's writing in response to my previous posting...
Tuesday, July 14, 2015

A Reader Writes: Nothing About Us, Without Us: No One Should Discuss *Any* People Designated as "Others" Without the Robust, Respected Contributions of Those "Others"

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Mary O'Grady writes in response to my posting yesterday about Father William Grimm's question , When Catholics talk about LGBT...
Monday, July 13, 2015

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: What Would the Arguments about Gay and Trans Folks Look Like If Real People Were Part of the Evidence?

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What would the arguments look like if real people were part of the evidence? , Maryknoll Father William Grimm asks , as he looks at t...