tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2850096231666604.post7514715878823836204..comments2023-07-01T00:39:39.762-07:00Comments on Father Geoff Farrow: Reactionary "Catholic" Moral theology, cutting the foot to fit the shoe.Father Geoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03904564207135202567noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2850096231666604.post-66436944563247350112012-07-08T07:29:27.240-07:002012-07-08T07:29:27.240-07:00This is the first time I am writing for this blog ...This is the first time I am writing for this blog but I am happy that I have run across it. I found it looking for Catholic Moral Theology on Sex. That being written, I wholeheartedly agree with what is being discussed here. I find a great hypocrisy amongst Catholic priests and the hierarchy. At my parish, I was removed as an extra-ordinary minister of the Eucharist because I openly announced that I am a gay Catholic, former seminarian, and that I have AIDS. It was an old deacon who removed me and he said that by openly stating that I had AIDS I am a scandal. I wonder how many straight Catholic know that according to current church documents oral sex is just as intrinsically disordered as gay sex?SugarloafPaulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09870856304793104923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2850096231666604.post-52903707980230039502012-02-12T10:01:33.411-08:002012-02-12T10:01:33.411-08:00Hi there, I found your web site via Google whilst ...<b>Hi there, I found your web site via Google whilst searching for a comparable topic, your website came up, it looks good. 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I've sent a riposte, "Homosexuality and the Freedom of Love" to "The Furrow."Joe O'Learyhttp://josephsoleary.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2850096231666604.post-35830549077498275262012-01-12T19:03:43.251-08:002012-01-12T19:03:43.251-08:00Mark Jordan in a recent book points out the obviou...Mark Jordan in a recent book points out the obvious: when the Vatican makes statements about he psychology of sexual orientation they are NOT the product of careful theological and anthropological reflection, but ad hoc clutching at some theory du jour (or more often, one of yesterday's theories) that appear to offer a prop. Hence the second edition of the Catechism alters its text to reflect a new popularity of exgay bunkum among Vatican defenders. An obscene article by an Irish Jesuit who teaches in the Gregorian University touts the claim that one third of gays can become straights with therapy, and another third can become heterosexually functioning (the author no doubt thinks that this should suffice to satisfy the wifey by whom they fulfill their procreative duties). See http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2012/01/homosexuality-and-the-freedom-to-think-by-bart-kiely-sj.html. This entire performance by the Vatican and its pseudo-theologians and pseudo-psychologists has become an excruciating farce.Joehttp://josephsoleary.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2850096231666604.post-61411722371510361122012-01-09T21:28:10.714-08:002012-01-09T21:28:10.714-08:00Writing in The Furrow, and quoting Socarides, Bieb...Writing in The Furrow, and quoting Socarides, Bieber and Nicolosi, 70 year old Irish Jesuit Bart Kiely of the Gregorianum opines that one third of gays can become heterosexual if they put their mind to it. Ironically, his piece is titled "Homosexuality and the Freedom to Think" even though the man he is replying to, Owen O'Sullivan, has been silenced by the Vatican. Must things get worse in the Catholic world before they get better?Joehttp://josephsoleary.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2850096231666604.post-91214435313468792892012-01-06T18:17:10.395-08:002012-01-06T18:17:10.395-08:00Back in the 1980's Dignity/Hartford essentiall...Back in the 1980's Dignity/Hartford essentially saved me from a life of loneliness, isolation and guilt. Their enlightened and affirming stance on same sex relationships within a Catholic theology served for me a grace-ful exit from the institutional church. <br /><br />At that time we (Dignity) were engaged in the beginning of a constructive and hope-full dialogue with the then Archbishop Whealon. Then came the "Ratzinger letter".<br /><br />Unfortunately, the dialogue broke down over the very issue of celibacy and the requirement that Dignity teach the party line of "no genital expression" outside of marriage. I think the "Courage" alternative was suggested at that time by the Archbishop but there were no takers.<br /><br />Dignity/Hartford was expelled from its home at a local Catholic parish school and while it continued for several years after that, Dignity/Hartford eventually became unrecognizable and is no longer the influential organization it once was.<br /><br />I suspect that young LGBT persons are even more "nominally Catholic" now than in the 1980's so I would not expect "Courage" to attract much of a following. I am afraid, however that those who may be drawn to "Courage" will emerge more hurt and damaged than I did after a traditional Catholic upbringing in the 1950's, and 60's.<br /><br />I can't help but think the Hartford Archdiocese believes it is offering a compassionate and relevant ministry. I trust the Archbishop will learn how impotent a ministry it is.Frankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04058312079036935995noreply@blogger.com