Tag: 2023
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……
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.
Wholeheartedness – “Being Found at Your Post”
I remember being convinced that I had a vocation, but that was long before I was able to question how much of my conviction was self-importance and a need to be special. Years of peeling away and undoing would be required if ever I were to fall into the hands of the living God.
Pope Francis, Decriminalization of Homosexuality, and the Question of “Sin”
His point, Francis said, was to insist on decriminalization. And of course, as Pope, he upholds the normal teaching about the sinfulness of sexual acts outside marriage (irrespective of orientation), with all the usual caveats that are necessary concerning different circumstances, and occasions when there may be no culpability at all―but chief among all of…
Uma atualização quanto à adunação
Tradução de Pedro Sette-Câmara. English Nota do tradutor: em inglês, a palavra atonement faz parte da língua corrente, sendo inclusive o título de um famoso romance de Ian McEwan. Em português, ela costuma ser traduzida como “expiação”, mas a ideia de to atone for one’s sins é um pouco distinta da ideia de “expiar os pecados” ou, na fala popular,…