ABSTINENCE ONLY FOR VAMPIRES AND WEREWOLVES

An excellent review of New Moon for anyone who wants to take this cultural phenomenon seriously. by James Walling Staff Writer for The Prague Post Perhaps much of the muddled religious subtext in the latest installment...

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ADVENT: It is She Who Makes Me Write it Down

The following thoughts from Merton, sixty years ago, on the last day of Advent, while looking at a picture of Fra Angelico’s “Annunciation”. December 23, 1949 Late Afternoon. The quiet is filled with an altogether different...

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JESUS MEDITATING

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CELESTIAL BUDDHA

Painting by Maren Mall...

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Gay/Straight, Man/Woman, Self/Other

Gay/Straight, Man/Woman, Self/Other What Would the Buddha Have Had to Say About Gay Liberation? An interview with Jose Cabezon (Enlightenment Next Magazine) by Amy Edelstein introduction  Jose Cabezon On June...

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REMEMBERING HARVEY

(THANKS TO  Kittredge Cherry ONCE AGAIN.) Remembering Harvey Milk Harvey Milk (1930-1978) is the first and most famous openly gay male elected official in California, and perhaps the world.  He became the public...

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Will Catholic Bishops Start Denying Communion to Gay Marriage Supporters?

by Michael A. Jones (CHANGE.ORG/GAY RIGHTS) category: Religion and LGBT Rights U.S. Catholic Bishops have made a giant leap toward using Communion as their next political weapon,...

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HEREAFTER

I would like to think that there is, especially in more recent years, a kind of autumnal repose in what I'm doing. It would be nice if what we do involved some degree of perfection, not only of a technical but also and...

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THE FUTURE OF OSSIFIED STRUCTURES

(I've quoted this great passage from Eckhart Tolle before but it bears repeating after recent events in the Catholic Church in the US regarding the treatment of gay persons. Harvey Cox has picked up the same insight and developed it in his latest book, The Future of Faith. See Michael Bayly's review here.) The new spirituality, the transformation...

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WHAT IS A GAY CATHOLIC TO HOPE

ADVICE FROM JOHN MCNEILL on the publication of the 1992 Vatican document, "Some considerations Concerning the Catholic Response to Legislative Proposals on the Non-Discrimination of Homosexual Persons." My only consolation at this time lies in three profound hopes. First I pray that the very absurdity and hateful spirit of these documents will lead...

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QUOTE FOR THE DAY

Authority often exalts opinions into dogmas and works to destroy every school of thought but its own.  John Henry Newman...

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AND FOR A LITTLE BIT OF PERSPECTIVE

 Always nice to see that we Catholics are not alone in dealing with prejudice and  the renewal of a rigid spiritual tradition.  Tuesday, November 10, 2009 Ajahn Brahm Expelled for Ordaining Nuns The popular...

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THE PARTY HAS JUST BEGUN

Czechs celebrating on the streets of Prague as the month long party begins celebrating the downfall of Communism in 1989. The end of a bloated, corrupt totalitarian system that enslaved millions with its false pretensions...

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FALLING WALLS

Today is a great day in the Czech Republic, as the following article demonstrates. The walls of tyranny came crashing down, beginning on November 17th, 1989. By Christmas time Czechoslovakia was a free nation for the first...

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JESUS QUEEN OF HEAVEN

Transgender Jesus play protested in Scotland More than 300 conservative Christian protesters picketed a play about a transsexual Jesus recently in Glasgow, Scotland. Waving signs and singing hymns, they blocked traffic for...

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QUEER PASSION

JESUS CONDEMNED TO DEATH (Maine & Portland) JESUS CRUCIFIED   JESUS RISES JESUS IN LOVE Images taken from the wonderful blog JESUS IN LOVE ...

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THE PASSION OF MATTHEW SHEPHARD

Dedicated To The Memory Of The 1,470 Gay and Lesbian Youth Who Commit Suicide In the U.S. Each Year And To The Countless Others Who Are Injured Or Murdered Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress;   my...

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What do you think I fought for in Omaha Beach?"

The woman at my polling place asked me do I believe in equality for gay and lesbian people. I was pretty surprised to be asked a question like that. It made no sense to me. Finally I asked her: what do you think I fought for in Omaha Beach?...

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