Tag: 2005
Letter of response to friends in the aftermath of the Vatican instruction of 29 November 2005
Castellano | Français Cari amici, Various of you have asked me for a considered reaction to the recently released Vatican instruction concerning the non-admission of gay people to seminary formation. I accept your challenge and am putting a few thoughts down. Please allow me to reply first as someone who aspires to be a theologian and…
Collapsing the closet in the house of God: opening the door on gay/straight issues
Cardoner Lecture at Creighton University (Omaha, USA), 27 September 2005. In Disney’s 1933 classic “The Three Little Pigs”, the Big Bad Wolf comes along and he says “I’ll huff, and I’ll puff, and I’ll blow your house down”. Which he then proceeds to do. First, the house of straw, and then the house of wood.…
Deliver us from evil
Presentation for A Conference on Evil: A two day Dialogue among Psychoanalysts, Philosophers and Theologians, organised by the Metropolitan Center for Mental Health and the Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. New York City 30 April – 1 May 2005. I would like to start with a distinction which I hope is obvious, and that…
Show us the Father
Sermon for the 5th Sunday of Easter (John 14:1-12). House of Mercy, St. Paul, Minnesota, 24 April 2005. The Fifth Sunday of Easter. More “dwelling”. Key word for today, “dwell”. More dwelling in the resurrection life that was opened up for us on Easter Sunday. More accompanying the one who was able to inhabit the toxicity…
Good-faith learning and the fear of God
What I want to underline here is that this is a conflict between elements of Catholic doctrine lived by many people. That is to say: when people say to gay and lesbian people “You should just be obedient to the teaching of the Church” it is no frivolity to reply “Sure, but which one?
Staggered Vision
A sermon at an Easter Sunday evening, Baptism. House of Mercy, St Paul, Minnesota, 27 March 2005. […] Staggered Vision. It’s what we get today in the gospel. In order to begin to make sense of what must be one of the most mysterious passages of writing anywhere, I’d like to try and fill in some…
Those with eyes to see
Walk about Zion, go round about her, number her towers, consider well her ramparts, go through her citadels; that you may tell the next generation that this is God, our God for ever and ever. He will be our guide for ever. (Ps 48, 12-14) The best analogy I know for Transubstantiation – the conversion,…
Aboard the disco boat queen
Originally published by the God’s Friends, Saint Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church’s magazine The English Catholic theologian James Alison has been called one of today’s most lucid and exciting writers on our relationship with the divine. He has lived and worked in the U.K., the U.S., and South America and is the author of several books,…