On Eureka Street TV a few weeks ago Judge Michael Kirby introduced and launched Five Uneasy Pieces (FUP), a book about Scripture and sexuality. Australasian Anglican scholars responded to FUP with a collection of writings called Sexegesis: An Evangelical Response to Five Uneasy Pieces on Homosexuality, Gordon Preece being one of the co-editors. He writes that “Sexegesis is Read more
The Church in Austria is “sounding out” how to allow people in “irregular relationships” to take part in church life, the Cardinal Archbishop of Vienna said. Cardinal Christoph Schönborn made his comments after allowing a gay man in a civil partnership, to remain on a parish council in Lower Austria. Continue reading
The Archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nichols will tell Catholics on Sunday that marriage has an “instinctive understanding” and that changing the definition to include homosexuals would be a “profoundly radical step” that would strip it of its “distinctive nature. The warning will be read in 2,500 churches during Sunday Mass, and will also be co-signed Read more
The Archbishop of Westminister, Vincent Nichols, is standing by his support for special Masses provided for homosexuals in the archdiocese. Nichols has shrugged of recent criticism that Masses for homosexuals provide a platform for dissent from Church teaching, and he reaffirmed the Westminister diocese’s pastoral provision for gay Catholics. Rejecting complaints that the gatherings in Read more
Catholic gay rights advocate Joe Murray has challenged Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York to a debate on gay marriage.
Murray is the executive director of the Rainbow Sash Movement, which advocates for acceptance of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Catholics within the church.
Through a post issued today on Rainbow Sash’s blog, its board of directors state that Murray has challenged Dolan, president of the U.S. Catholic bishops’ conference, “to meet him in the public square at any Catholic university in the United States to debate gay marriage. Such a debate will not only be informative, but could highlight reason over homophobia.”
The archdiocese is aware of the request, but is unlikely to respond.
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Archbishop John C Favalora, until last year the Archbishop of the Miami, Florida, stands accused of running his diocese along the lines of a corrupt “homosexual super-culture”. The Gawker report, written by former Miami New Times contributor and theatre critic Brandon K. Thorp, gathers information from an intensive investigation by a group of South Florida Catholics calling Read more
Christians just want to pick a fight over homosexuality and it’s motivated by politics, according to Tervor Phillips, Britain’s Human Rights Commissioner. “I think for a lot of Christians, they want to have a fight and they choose sexual orientation as the ground. I think that whole argument isn’t about the rights of Christians. It’s Read more
Actors in the longest running television programme, Coronation St, are reportedly concerned about the number of same-sex plot lines. “It’s not a happy place to be at the moment – and there is growing unrest that the show is losing its way,” said one actor who wishes to remain anonymous. The soap, in Britain, currently features Read more
After a flood of backlash, Apple has pulled the “gay-cure” app from its iTunes store. Over 150,000 people signed an online petition demanding that Apple remove the Exodus International iPhone app which claimed to help people with unwanted same-sex attraction to live a life congruent with biblical teaching. In a statement released on their website, Read more