This is Me
The main point of this post is the firm and frank admission: I’m gay.
Catholicism, (homo)eros, and everthing else
The main point of this post is the firm and frank admission: I’m gay.
Here, I would like to present a proposition.
Various theories have been proposed as to how we might classify human sexuality.
How can such incompatible beliefs as Catholicism and “pro-marriage-equality” be held within one person?
“… 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.”
The following column was published in The Observer on Tuesday, February 12, 2013. In its recent student government endorsement, Scholastic Magazine criticizedContinue Reading
I have received a number of excellent criticisms and comments about my posts.
The conclusion of Notre Dame’s “comprehensive review of GLBTQ student services and support” on December 5, 2012 immediately garnered national attention.
“LGBTQ” language, “homosexuality” language, and “same-sex-attraction” language should be distinguished…
This is my second post on understanding “same sex attraction.” To read my first post, “On Terminology,” click here. ForContinue Reading