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Why do we scapegoat?
James Alison says scapegoating is one of our oldest social behaviours. But casting someone out to maintain group cohesion has its obvious drawbacks — particularly for the person taking the fall! As a gay Catholic priest, Dr Alison was drawn to the work of French polymath René Girard, who proposed that scapegoating is not the…
Ortodoxos invadiram missa onde participavam católicos LGBT
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Conscience reveals to LGBTQ people who we really are
Published by Outreach, an LGBTQ Catholic resource, on 26 July 2023 In text messages released this past May, the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson described watching an online video of some Trump supporters beating a protestor, around the time of the January 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. “It was three against one, at least……
Bible et homosexualité, clés de lecture
Voici des petites questions introductoires posées à James Alison avant ses conférences récents donnés à Paris, sur les textes bibliques souvent mal interprétés contre les personnes LGBT. Les vidéos des conférences mêmes sont en préparation, et seront lancés en bref par Reconnaissance Appel.
Humility: a loser’s virtue, the route to reality, or both?
Humility will make of gratefully perceived sameness the source of endlessly peaceful diversity. Because our bodies are genuinely different – by place and date of birth and many other specificities, but our pattern of desire is the same.
Signs of Change: The Bible’s Evolution of Divine Nonviolence (Book Review)
Tony Bartlett’s long-awaited new book is a major advance in understanding the almost unimaginable blast from elsewhere which we far too hygienically describe as “Divine Revelation”; and how it can be traced through the books we far too complacently bundle as “Holy Scripture”.
On Natural Law and Conscience
This article was published by Outreach, an LGBTQ Catholic resource On the most recent Outspoken conversation, the Catholic priest, theologian and writer James Alison offered a master class on the theology of natural law and conscience, two topics of interest to all Catholics, but especially for LGBTQ Catholics, who often find themselves confronting arguments that use…
Andrew Sullivan’s The Dishcast
Author, editor and blogger Andrew Sullivan is talking to James about his life, faith, sexuality, Church and all in between.