The Church Today:
“We did what the church asked us to do.”
The Vatican vs Nuns
(more at NCRonline.org)

Jamie L. Manson:
“For more than 15 years now, I’ve felt starved by the Roman Catholic authorities.  But lately I wonder if they haven’t done me a favor.” 
 The Grace of Living on the Margins
(more at NCRonline.org)

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)
 

“...  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

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)
 

“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

Joan Chittister, OSB
WHY GO TO CHURCH IF YOU DON’T DO WHAT THE POPE SAYS?

James Alison:
UNBINDING  THE GAY  CONSCIENCE

SEXUALITY

Finding God in the Erotic
Donal Godfrey, SJ
Without Eros would we have an adequate analogy for our relationship with God?

Tom Fox: 
SEX AND THE SPIRIT
 

Healing the Wound:
The Sacraments and Human Sexuality
Eugene C. Kennedy

Joyce Marcel
Who Do You Love?
How Do You Love?
 
Here's a rock-solid truth that our culture tries to deny: we don't choose the people we love.

 GAY MARRIAGE

A Catholic Defense of Same Sex Marriage
Professor Daniel C. Maguire

Vatican:  Certain Considerations...
James Alison:  Yes, but is it true...?

Reclaiming Our Tradition: 
Rights, Diversity and
Catholic Social Teaching
The 2003 Alan Bray Lecture
by Conor Gearty
With a Theological Response
by Gerard Loughlin

Martin Pendergast:
Compatible not competing –
Pastoral practice and civil partnerships

Gay Marriage:
It’s About Love, Stupid!
Matthew Fox

 EVANGELIZATION and MINISTRY

“...for the first time since I was old enough to understand myself as a sexual being, it was a church that wasn’t pushing me away.”
Donal Godfrey, SJ: 
A Vision of Hope for Queer Catholics

Hope in the Desert --
The New Testament and Gay/Lesbian Ministry
Jeffrey Siker

 SPECIAL SECTIONS

Gay Parenting
The Anglican Crisis
Essays on Gay Life
Humor

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.”
 

“The Catholic Church ... reads scripture Eucharistically, because for us the prime source of authority is not the text itself, but the crucified and living victim, alive in our midst....  For us “The Word of God” refers in the first place to a living person, and only by analogy to the texts which bear witness to him.”
James Alison:
 “But the Bible Says…”?
 

WOMEN in the Church
The first person to turn bread and wine into the body and blood of Jesus was a woman.

Is Feminism A Mob or A Movement?
By Joan Chittister, OSB

Mary of Magdala
Apostle and church leader

Special Section on Women from The Tablet:
It Won’t Wash with Women
by Mary McAleese
Women Raise Their Voices
by Martin Browne
Break this Stained-glass Ceiling
by Libby Purves
Feminism, Vatican Style
 by Tina Beattie

 GAY PRIESTS

A Gay Priest Speaks Out
The Vatican, Homosexuals
 & Holy Orders
Rev. Gerard Thomas

I knew that I was called to priesthood before I knew that I was gay.
MADE IN GOD’S IMAGE

SEXUALITY AND MINISTRY
—Andrew Hamilton SJ

Ordaining GAY  Men

 OPINION

Vatican Gay Bashing

Chicago Priests:
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE HIERARCHY OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH REGARDING THE PASTORAL CARE OF GAY AND LESBIAN PERSONS

Spong to Will:  An Open Letter from Episcopal Bishop John Shelby Spong to Political Columnist George F. Will
Regarding the Consecration of Bishop Gene Robinson

Say What?
Responses to the U.S.. Bishops’
”Guidelines” for Ministry to Persons with a Homosexual “Inclination”

Readers SPEAK OUT