Dec 16, 2009

Dec 15, 2009

GAY MARTYRS OF THE CHURCH

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Quite a shocking image sent to me today (for my birthday-yesterday!) by a good lesbian friend of mine. (The artist is David LaChapelle, the painting is called Eden, and it can be found at the website, Homotrophy.) Thank...

QUOTE OF THE DAY FROM JOHN J. MCNEILL

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I have written extensively on the Teology of Fallibility. We need fallible leaders in order to mature spiritually and learn to listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit speaking to us from within our experiences. Through the failures of church hierarchiacal authorities, the Church is being transformed into the Church of the Holy Spirit. This is God’s...

Dec 14, 2009

Dec 13, 2009

ENABLING THE ENABLERS

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Another powerful post at Enlightened Catholicism on the abuse crisis in the church has left me somewhat speechless. Tom Doyle's reflection on the actions needed to be taken to rescue the church from the catastrophe of the crisis was written sixteen months ago, after Benedict's trip for World Youth Day in Australia. Colleen Kochivar-Baker follows the...

FINDING JOY ON THE VLTAVA RIVER PRAGUE

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This morning my good friends, Becky and Alicia, together with Becky's mom, who is visiting from the US, came over to my apartment to celebrate an informal lesbian, feminist Eucharist, before the four of us would head over...

Dec 12, 2009

FINDING JOY IN UGANDA

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In light of the terrible developments in Uganda and the Vatican's own scandalous response, which redefines the terms 'tepidity', 'duplicity,' and 'cowardice,' and raises them to new heights of human mendacity, (see William...

Dec 9, 2009

THE EUCHARIST AND THE JOY OF HOMECOMING:ENCOUNTERING CHRIST ON THE MARGINS

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In a previous post of October 6th, entitled Emmaus Walk, I spoke of a highly personal development in my own life regarding the Eucharist, which I would like to repeat  here. For twenty two years, I have been journeying on my own personal Emmaus Walk,  celebrating the Eucharist within a small community of gay persons who are disaffected from...

Dec 7, 2009

QUOTES OF THE DAY

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Father Tony of the Farmboyz Recent losses in California, Maine and New York have left gay activist leaders arguing about what exactly went wrong. Those battles have, however, made clear the identity of an aggressive enemy of the gay community, the bishops of the Roman Catholic Church. Now is the time for Catholic women, married men, gay men, and...

THE BRONTE SISTERS AND US

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Reading through the education pack for Polly Teale's remarkable play, Bronte, which explores the inner lives and conflicts of these three tragic figures, Charlotte, Emily and Anne, I came across this passage: Today it is...

Dec 5, 2009

QUOTE OF THE DAY from Colleen Kochivar-Baker

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Gays have a great deal to offer the Church precisely because we have a motivation for seeking the commonalities between ourselves and others. Some of us also seem to have a need to treasure the differences and avoid being subsumed by a particular cultural millieu. It's truly a gift. A very moving statement, especially in these times when so many...

Dec 4, 2009

Dec 3, 2009

QUOTE OF THE DAY

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Yes, we are fighting for the right of civil marriage, but it is far more than that. We are also fighting so that the next generation does not have to grow up in shame and live in fear. Father Geoff Farrow...

Dec 2, 2009

ENCOUNTERING CHRIST ON THE MARGINS WITH JOY

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EMBRACING OURSELVES AS EXILES We must be prepared to accept our exile state both within society and within the Church. We must grieve and gradually let go of the desire to "belong" to all the institutions of this world. We must deepen our spiritual roots and our realisation that, in direct proportion to our exile state in this world, we belong in...
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