Hospitality, Welcome, and the Lesbians of the AIDS Crisis
“The readings today challenge me to push myself beyond what is comfortable and familiar in the hopes of offering even more radical welcome, hospitality, and care. . . “
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“The readings today challenge me to push myself beyond what is comfortable and familiar in the hopes of offering even more radical welcome, hospitality, and care. . . “
A short round-up of news items for you today!
Nearly eight months after Fiducia Supplicans was released, the Chaldean Catholic Church has issued its rejection of the declaration which allows individuals in same-gender relationships to be blessed. Today’s post includes this news and some commentaries on the declaration from recent months.
Nex Benedict, we say your name. We honor your memory. We will never stop fighting for the long life you deserved.
Today’s post includes story about a Maltese Catholic LGBTQ+ group’s new book, Greek bishops’ opposition to marriage equality, and a gathering of transgender-negative bishops in Prague.
Today, the last Sunday of the liturgical year, is designated as the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe. This title rubs me the wrong way, as it often has.
If the Ascension isn’t “absurdity” and “exaggeration” I don’t know what it is! Jesus is talking to his disciples, then suddenly raised up physically above them, then hidden behind a cloud, and then two strangers show up out of nowhere and start lecturing his friends? I’ve seen drag shows with less drama.
This Advent, when faced with so much anti-LGBTQ+ violence and loss, I’m staking everything on the belief that another world is possible.
The phrase that comes to mind for me when I read this story is “shady solidarity.”
“Will you do it for their sake? Will you minister to these people, these queer and trans people, these abortion patients and providers, these parents and children who are now and who are yet to be, these created beings threatened by climate catastrophe? Will you do it for them?”