Being Celibate, Christian and Gay…
Some bits of an online discussion…
Tag: church teaching
Me and Porn II: For Your Hope
“Because the Church tells me to” is a pretty unsatisfactory answer…
God in the Gay Bar
This was during the angry hedonistic phase of my life, when I had given up on God’s plan for me but not yet on His existence.
My Early Education
I’ve come to have a lot more to say about homosexuality than a simple condemnation of “sodomy,” and so has the Church.
Newman, and the development of Catholic teaching on abortion and homosexuality
“… and old principles reappear under new forms. It [a great idea] changes with them in order to remain the same. In a higher world it is otherwise, but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.” So goes the argument of Blessed John Henry Newman’s Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine. Like any great idea, doctrine must change in order to remain the same. Only dead doctrine cannot change, for “a power of development is a proof of life.”
Chris Damian 