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Not a Witch Hunt -
A Treasure Hunt
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
When I went to university and then into a post-doc psychoanalytic training program practicing as a clinician, our professors had drilled us on the DSM (the Diagnostic Statistical Manual used nationwide to diagnose mental disorders). At that time, in the very early 1970s, the psychiatric panels that put together the DSM stated unequivocally that homosexuality was to be diagnosed as a perversion. (NCRcafe)
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Pat Groves: On Thin Ice
Music Devotion
We were warned not to make any noise at all in Church, much less a joyful noise, lest we directly offend an Almighty and Ever-Grouchy God. (more)
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John J. McNeill: “We gays and lesbians must not let our enemies outside ourselves define who we are. We must let the Spirit of God, the Spirit of love dwelling in our hearts, define who we are. And then give witness to all the great things the Lord has done for us.”
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Luke Timothy Johnson
Scripture & Experience
The relatively small set of same-sex unions gets singled out for moral condemnation, while the vast pandemic of sexual disorder goes ignored. In my view, this scapegoating of homosexuality has less to do with sex than with perceived threats to the authority of Scripture and the teaching authority of the church. (more)
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“It may come slowly or quite unexpectedly and suddenly, this realization that you are entombed but need not be; this realization that what you thought was evil, corrupting, life denying, is in fact, good, liberating and life giving.”
Donal Godfrey, SJ:
On Coming Out
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Stale images of God aren’t working for today’s seekers. New ones are emerging from the experiences of all God’s people.
U.S.Catholic Magazine interviews
Elizabeth Johnson, CSJ
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“... I’ve discovered that I’m not very good at being either celibate or promiscuous. I guess I’m
Somewhere In Between”
By Michael Bayly
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Claiming Our Own Spirituality
Yesterday my partner and I were talking, half seriously, half jokingly, about how we take care of one another. “Did you ever think,” he said, “that I could be your guardian angel?”
I wondered. (more)
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Bishop Spong
On Spending Three Days with DignityUSA
I was invited to this gathering to give the keynote address, to conduct two workshops and to lead the assembly in a brief liturgy of installing, blessing and dedicating their newly elected officers for the next four years. I was also present to listen as they recounted their struggles against their rejection by the Church they love. In the course of these three days I found myself counseling some on vocational decisions, asking God's blessing on some of their committed unions, laying my hands in prayer on one who had just received a serious, perhaps fatal, diagnosis and sharing with this incredible group of men and women their study, worship, eating, dancing and leisure. It was one of the greatest assignments of my life. (Full Article)
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