William Lindsey

LATEST ARTICLES ( 3425 )

• With the Catholic Bishops, It's Always Someone Else's Sin That's Responsible...

  During the next seven days, bishops across the U.S. will dedicate themselves to intensified prayer and fasting. We pray for victims of clergy sexual abuse, the... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• "A Broad, Deep, Clerical Conspiracy" and "Bishop Accountability Has Proved a...

  

  And there's more: here's another diptych from recent commentary that I want to offer for your consideration — about a totally different topic than the one... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• "People Who Are Most Likely to Appear in These Kinds of Stories Are the Least...

  

  A diptych for you today — news commentary dancing two-by-two which, in my view deserves to be highlighted, and which illuminates, I think, themes I've... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• National Catholic Reporter Addresses Wave of Catholic Hate Against Queer...

  The hatred is breathtaking. Online and in person. I've been a Jesuit 30 years and it was only this year that I've had people (literally) screaming at me,... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Commentary: On Youth Synod Opening Door to LGBTQ Community (?!); On Latest...

  

  Some meandering thoughts and mini-rants this morning:1. Every time the Vatican slaps the queer community in the face one more time, you can count on a certain... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Liz Dodd on the Damage That Youth Synod's Game-Playing with LGBTQ Lives Does to...

  

  Liz Dodd on the damage that the youth synod's game-playing with LGBTQ lives does to those lives and to the church itself, in "Synod's decision to drop 'LGBT'... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Bishop Gene Robinson to Matt Shepard: "Welcome Home"; Catholic Youth Synod to...

  

  In his sermon at the interment of Matt Shepard, Bishop Gene Robinson says the following (these excerpts are from about 1:13:48 and 1:19:32 in the video... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• We / They: How Refusal to Include Queer Voices in Synodal Conversations Undercut...

  “Christ made God manifest by making invisible people visible—the poor, women, all those deprived of their rights.” ~ Dorothee Sölle, "Beyond Mere Obedience:... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Commentary: Political Fall-Out as Catholic Bishops Face Reckoning for Covering...

  

  More commentary today that catches my attention, and is especially interesting when read side by side: Patricia Miller, "Is This Finally the Reckoning for the... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Commentary: McCarrick and Supposed "Gay Clique" in Hierarchy; Homosexuality Not...

  

  Things I've read in the last day or so that I'd like to pass along to you — with themes that, in my view, fit together, so that it's helpful to read this... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Where Do We Go from Here, as the Future Looks More and More Bleak for LGBTQ...

  So where do we go from here? I ask because I quite sincerely don't know the answer to that question.My sense is that for queer people — especially in the U.S. Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Viganò Attacks Again: Even More Obsessively Focused on Homosexuality, as U.S....

  Pope accuser strikes back, blames "scourge of homosexuality" for abuse https://t.co/OSsgulPcOTThis — this hateful crusade against a minority community, hate... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Married Gay Catholic Minister Hounded Out of Ministerial Job with Acts of Hate...

  

  I wish so much that this story had not flashed across my computer screen on the very same day in which I posted Rolando's testimony about what has been done to... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• "I Am Excommunicated from This 'Redemptive Institution' Because 3 Years Ago, Joh...

  

  The following is testimony that Rolando shared at Bilgrimage several days ago. This testimony deserves a wider hearing than it will receive if it remains in a... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Was Dietrich Bonhoeffer Gay? Diane Reynolds' The Doubled Life of Dietrich...

  

  Diane Reynolds, The Doubled Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Women, Sexuality, and Nazi Germany (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2016)When I reported to you (and here)... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Not Blogging Lately Because I Don't Think That I Have Much to Say That Will...

  

  I'm not blogging much lately because I don't think, honestly, that I have much to say that will make much of a difference to any of the conversations going on... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Me, Talking Back to National Catholic Reporter and Michael Sean Winters Re:...

  Wuerl hounded from office for becoming face of abuse crisis https://t.co/N2pHeSpgcP via @ncronline"He has been for 30 years a force of nature in the Catholic... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• "Only the Good Has Depth That Can Be Radical": Hannah Arendt on Banality of...

  

  A key point of Hannah Arendt's analysis of the banality of evil is that evil is essentially stupid, as it manifests itself in the social arena. Evil lacks... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• U.S. Catholic Church in Snapshots from Twitter, as Georgetown Prep Grad Kavanaug...

  .@newtgingrich and I congratulate our new Supreme Court Justice. pic.twitter.com/LDlDsUhL4k— Callista Gingrich (@CallyGingrich) October 6, 2018Why not share... Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Mark Shea on What Viganò, Burke, and Bannon's Anti-Francis Gay-Bashing Is...

  Kavanaugh Has Exposed the Savage Amorality of America's Ruling Class https://t.co/PgdtZykKrw— Mary Aktay (@maryaktay) October 6, 2018Mark Shea, "1 Percenters... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY