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Fr. James Alison, a gay priest and theologian, has written that the Vatican’s responsum that banned blessings for same-gender couples was a “tantrum.” Elsewhere, Fr. Frank Brennan writes that, ultimately, it is God, not the church, who decides about blessing love.
As the Masterpiece Cakeshop’s legal saga continues to unfold, LGBTQ people of faith are again caught between two legal aims: LGBTQ equality and religious freedom. How can we use the law to curtail unjust religious discrimination against LGBTQ folk without inadvertently setting precedents that limit religious liberty?
An archbishop has banned an LGBT-supportive priest from speaking at a Catholic conference, a silencing that has led to cries of hypocrisy over the archbishop’s own claims about free speech.
A week ago, Australian legislators passed a marriage equality law following the nation’s non-binding postal survey this fall and years of debate. A Catholic priest has since expressed his desire to celebrate a same-gender couple’s wedding amid more muted reactions from church leaders.
Despite majority support for marriage equality, an Australian bishop is claiming the results of the nation’s recent postal survey are not correct and that Australians actually oppose marriage equality. But rather than re-hash the vote, many Australians are looking to move forward as the nation’s legislators advance a potential law.
Australian Catholics are celebrating a “Yes” victory in the nation’s postal survey on marriage equality, the results of which were released yesterday. But there is also a new focus on healing after a very harmful, and in many people’s opinion unnecessary, process that did not actually legalize marriage equality.
Yesterday was the final day for Australians to submit ballots in the nation’s postal survey over marriage equality, a debate in which Catholics have been heavily involved. With the results to be announced in less than two weeks, it is time for Catholics to consider what comes next.
An Australian bishop has said same-gender couples’ love is “like the love of friends” and compared their relationships to incestual relationship, all while weighing in as the nation’s postal survey on marriage equality that continues through early November. . .
Two Australian bishops have released moderated statements about marriage equality, a contrast to the sometimes…