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
Category: sexuality
Bostock Initial Review: A Mixed Bag
I’m quite happy that my gay and trans friends will not have to worry about being jobless because someone discovers their sexual orientation or gender identity. That being said, I see the decision as a mixed bag.
“Catholics can choose whether to put ourselves at risk”
The problem with this argument is that it doesn’t apply to a virus.
Christians, Autopsies, and the Sexual Revolution
If you are a friend who attends this lecture, I encourage you to listen in this way: replace “homosexual” with “Chris Damian.”
Why stay Catholic?
Why stay Catholic if you disagree with Church teaching?
When a Priest Says ‘Unforgivable’
He confessed gay sex in confession, and the priest responded by saying that this sin was unforgivable.
10 of the hardest things from the last decade
7. I confessed to being a fraud.
I Almost Worked for the Holy See: One Gay Catholic’s Response to Discrimination
In at least one employment opportunity, the University had agreed to the position: gay persons need not apply.
Zacchaeus, Gay Catholics, and the Casting of Biblical Narrative
I thought my sexuality made me Zacchaeus in the tree, the woman caught in adultery, a thief on a cross by Christ crucified.
Why friendship is an erotic relationship
Drawing on such thinkers as Aristotle, Bonaventure, John Henry Newman, Christos Yannaras, and John Paul II, I argued for reimagining friendship as a necessarily erotic relationship.
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