A Priest’s Seduction
I know a young man who years ago was seduced by an older priest in a position of power.
Catholicism, (homo)eros, and everthing else
I know a young man who years ago was seduced by an older priest in a position of power.
Weigel’s writings risk distracting us from the problems facing the Church–as well as contributing to them.
Trigger warning: support for Trump voters (sort of).
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.
It’s unfortunate that many natural lawyers seem totally devoid of eros.
Jaffa, as natural lawyer, claims that if sodomy is accepted by society, there are no grounds to object to murder and rape.
Today’s forms of natural law can become Nietzschean insofar as they seek to overcome another’s will by replacing his reason.
Aquinas argues that the most important truths somehow escape the finity of articulation.
Gay penguins do matter when it comes to making sense of nature.
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.