The Talk: Gay and Catholic
The degree of your openness is inversely related to the range of opportunities available to you in the Church.
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Revoice a Year Later: New Reflections on Community
Community is intrinsic to our Christian calling. Christians have never been collections of autonomous individuals, but have always been aContinue Reading
A Survivor Speaks: What Catholics Have Said to Me
Responses by Catholics that simply “prayer is the answer” can be re-traumatizing, a re-inflicting of the abuse.
Benedict vs. Francis vs. Vatican II: In Benedict’s Recent Words
In my previous post I discussed Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s letter to Bavarian clergy on “the Church and the scandalContinue Reading
It’s ok to be wounded on Easter
A part of me wants to believe that the Resurrection means an erasure of all of the ways I have wronged and been wrong.
Benedict and the Crisis: What does theologizing have to do with the abuse of children?
When children are being raped by priests, why should we care whether theologians focus on a morality grounded in Greek philosophy or a pragmatic theology that exclusively utilizes Scriptural texts?
Book Review: Kiese Laymon’s Heavy
Kiese centers his narrative on bodies: black bodies, heavy bodies, the body of his mother, and the body of her son.
I Tell You for Mercy
For a gay man to offer the Church anything other than anger is to go beyond the realm of justice.
On the value of queer writers
Don’t just ask us to be your token, or to speak out “as the gay person.” Just ask us to speak.
Book Review: Alexander Chee’s How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
One thing I learned from Chee: no honest writer can simply write “what happened.” Especially diving into his later essays,Continue Reading
