Not Today, Satan: What Crosses Do Queer People Carry?
If my sexuality brings me so much meaning and connection, how could it be my “cross”?
Entries by Allison Connelly
Coming Out in the Midst of the Storm
When I was in the earliest stages of coming out and was sorting through my feelings about my sexuality, I felt as though there was a stormy ocean inside my mind, heart, and body.
Morality Beyond “Intrinsically Disordered”: Our Call to Announce Justice
“What then is my role in living a moral life as an LGBTQ Catholic? How am I called to announce God’s justice?”
The Good News of Christ the King: Why Gay Catholics Should Celebrate Today’s Solemnity
Today is the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, and the celebration feels a little pointed this year.
My Gay, Catholic Wedding (And Other Times I Recognize Myself in the Bible)
We knew that getting married as two gay, Catholic women in the deeply red state of South Dakota, especially when we were determined to have a Catholic liturgy, would be complicated. That is why, despite vastly different contexts, I see myself in today’s parable when it comes to my gay, Catholic wedding during COVID-19.
Harm, Needs, and Responsibility: Why Restorative Justice is Good News for LGBTQ Catholics
Today’s liturgical readings prompted me to think about restorative justice, and the implications it could have for LGBTQ people and the Catholic Church.
It’s 2020, and We Need the Assumption More Than Ever
Today, I find that hope, reassurance, and sustenance in the dogma of the Assumption. I truly believe that as a Church and as a people, we need the Assumption today more than ever.
Queer, Catholic, and White: My Own Trinitarian Identity
“Today is Trinity Sunday and the first Sunday of Pride month. What an opportune day then to reflect on my own Trinitarian identity as one person who is at once queer, Catholic, and white.”
Devastation and Sacrament on the Road to Emmaus
I have to admit, I felt like the Easter Grinch during the last few weeks of Lent, convinced that with all the pain and suffering in the world right now, Christ would stay in the tomb this time. After reflecting on today’s Gospel story of the Emmaus encounter, it brings me comfort to wonder if the disciples felt the same way that I feel now.