Schonborn Confirms: Discrimination is NOT a Catholic Value.
Yesterday’s report from Cutting Edge that Cardinal Schonborn has confirmed the election of an openly gay man to a parish council in Austria, reversing an earlier decision by the parish priest to...
View ArticleChurches Launch Pro-gay Christian Billboard Campaign
GRAND RAPIDS, MI — It took a lifetime of doubt and worry — not to mention five years of marriage to a man — for Cara Oosterhouse to reconcile her sexual orientation with her faith. Oosterhouse, a...
View ArticleCelebrating Our Relationships
One of the dangers in focussing too much in the controversies over same – sex marriage, whether in church or as civil marriage, is that of ignoring or marginalising other forms of relationship – such...
View ArticleChristina Rosetti, Lesbian Poet (and Saint)
In the Western church, it is the Catholic tradition that is most closely associated with honouring the saints, but other denominations do too (not always using the same terminology). The Church of...
View ArticleA Queer tale of Oscar Wilde’s friends: the Catholic Priest and his lover, a...
Amid all the Queen’s diamond jubilee nonsense, the queer Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence picnicked on Carlton Hill in Edinburgh yesterday, after visiting key sites in Edinburgh’s gay and lesbian...
View ArticleThe ‘Patron Saint of Transvestites’ is said to be Charles, aka Lia, d’Éon de...
Charles (or Lia when in female dress) d’Éon de Beaumont was an extraordinary transvestite character, a French Catholic, a diplomat, a soldier, and a spy who lived for over 80 years in both France and...
View ArticleGay in Uganda – Faith and Sexuality Conference
The challenges to gay Ugandans are severe, and often aggravated by religious groups intent on stoking prejudice and worse. As Chris Morley recently reported, Catholic bishops are now backing the...
View ArticleThrough a Glass Queerly
“For now we see through a glass, darkly.” (1 Corinthians 13:12 (KJV) “A Glass Queerly” is a new(ish) blog I’ve just come across which takes it’s name directly from the familiar quotation, and is...
View ArticleQueer Lessons in Cardinal Martini’s Warning From the Grave
Two weeks before he died,Cardinal Martini gave a notable interview with the Italian newspaper, Corriere della Sera, in which he made a fundamentally important statement and asked a crucial question,...
View ArticleReclaim the pulpit – with “living, laughing and loving beyond the norm”
A site I’ve been wanting to write about for weeks, and have sadly neglected, is “la lucha, ma pulpito“, run by delfin waldemar bautista. which I enjoy for its completely fresh, lively appearance and...
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