A Priest’s Seduction
I know a young man who years ago was seduced by an older priest in a position of power.
Category: Christianity and sexuality
Weigel, Courage, and McCarrick: Let’s Get Real
Weigel’s writings risk distracting us from the problems facing the Church–as well as contributing to them.
Natural Law Errors: In Catholicism
Authority, sexuality, and abuse can come together to assist in what many call “the clergy abuse crisis.” The crisis arrives because, regardless of whether or not we use the language of “natural law,” we all tend towards Nietzscheanism in the world today.
Natural Law Errors: Emotivist Natural Law
It’s unfortunate that many natural lawyers seem totally devoid of eros.
Natural Law Errors: Dehumanizing Natural Law
Jaffa, as natural lawyer, claims that if sodomy is accepted by society, there are no grounds to object to murder and rape.
Natural Law Errors: Nietzschean Natural Law
Today’s forms of natural law can become Nietzschean insofar as they seek to overcome another’s will by replacing his reason.
Natural Law Errors: Empiricizing Natural Law
Aquinas argues that the most important truths somehow escape the finity of articulation.
Natural Law Errors: Do Gay Penguins Matter?
Gay penguins do matter when it comes to making sense of nature.
The Bishops and Bostock: Considering Sex and Sexual Orientation
The bishops end up doing what they allege condemning: separating out sexual orientation’s meaning from sex and creating distance between the concepts of marriage and sex.
In Commonweal: On Bishops and Legal Briefs
I’m published today in Commonweal Magazine! In “Taking Freedom Too Far,” I critique the legal briefing submitted by the U.Continue Reading
