A saint for the millenials: Carlo Acutis beatified today in Assisi.

 A saint for the millenials: the young Italian teen, Carlo Acutis, who died in 2006 of galloping Leukemia, will be beatified today in Assisi by Pope Francis (last step before being officially declared a saint). I was...

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Ronan Park and Jack Vidgen: The Travails of Gay Pop Stars

(Jack Vidgen) Quite by accident, through a comment from a performance arts colleague of mine, I stumbled across the recent bios of two boy teen singing sensations, both of whom made a big splash worldwide 8 years...

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In The Closet of the Vatican: New Investigative Study

In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy - just published today, February 22nd, 2019. Thanks to Kittredge Cheery of the wonderful gay Christian blog,  QSpirit Blog, for the heads up about...

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Wanderer by Sarah Leon: Gay Debut Novel of the Year

A very young Sarah Leon published this heat-wrenching  love story in French in 2016 when she was barely twenty years old. Three years later we are blessed to have this exquisite English translation of the work ...

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Boy Erased and Gay-Conversion Therapy Films of 2018

We've been singularly blessed this past year to have two superb film treatments of the controversial 'gay-conversion' therapy, still legal, unfortunately, in 36 US states. The first, The Miseducation of Cameron Post,...

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'Boy Erased' Star Lucas Hedges Comes Out as 'Not Totally Straight'

This story is about four months old, so I'm a little late coming to it. But I feel it is quite significant. I've borrowed the title straight from Out Magazine. A young up-and-coming American actor, Lucas...

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Mystical Czech artist, Marie Brozova

About Life, Universe and All… The luminous Czech artist, Marie Brozova, creator of the wonderful 'Forest Shaman' painting featured on my blog, lives with her husband and seven cats deep in a Czech forest - without...

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SPICING UP THE CHURCH:

Here is the website of the wonderful meeting group for gay Christians in the Czech republic, Logos. And below is their position statement. Check them out.  Logos – Gay Christians  in the Czech Republic We...

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Call Me By Your Name: Film of the Year

An exquisite love story that defies explanation and refuses to judge or label its characters. Why did they fall in love, why were these two men able to cross the gender lines and love another member of the same sex....

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Christmas at Litmanova

The Marian Shrine of Litmanova, Slovakia. Christmas 2017 A forest chapel at the Slovakian Marian shrine of Litmanova. Stunning painting of the Sacred Heart inside the forest chapel....

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Conclave by Robert Harris

Capsule Review: I've just finished reading Robert Harris' very stylish, sophisticated thriller, Conclave, the story of the struggle to elect the next pope in the post-Francis era. The time period is 2018. I have...

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