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GAY CATHOLIC FORUM
A Gifted People Sharing Their Faith
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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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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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I can’t stand your religious meetings.
I’m fed up with your conferences and conventions.
I want nothing to do with your religion projects, your pretentious slogans and goals.
I’m sick of your fund-raising schemes, your public relations and image making.
I’ve had all I can take of your noisy ego-music.
When was the last time you sang to me?
Do you know what I want?
I want justice - oceans of it.
I want fairness - rivers of it.
That’s what I want.
That’s all I want.
Amos 5:21-24
(The Message)
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Introducing -
Susan Casslan
Gay Spirituality
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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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“... 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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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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“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…”?
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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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Sister Marge O’Gorman, FSM
On Becoming a Nonviolent Presence
After a while in this ministry, I began to meet some of the people who criticized this community I had grown to love. (more)
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