William Lindsey

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• Rita Ferrone on Responding to the McCarrick Story: "What Will the People...

  

  A statement well worth reading, which has even more weight following yesterday's release of the Pennsylvania grant jury report: I think that Rita Ferrone... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• More Initial Impressions of Philadelphia Grand Jury Report: "They Hid It All"

  

  More first impressions: 1) The very SAME Catholic officials targeting gay folks with a vengeance trying to lay the abuse horror show at the feet of gay priest... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Initial Impressions of Philadelphia Grand Jury Report: "They Hid It All"

  

  I have not yet read the Philadelphia grand jury report. I am reading news coverage now. Here are some initial top-of-the-head responses:"All of [the victims]... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Revisiting Cahill and Wilkinson's Child Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church As...

  

  Dallas Morning News, June 2002This is a posting from this blog dated 20 October 2017 that I'd like to re-post this morning, as we wait for the Pennsylvania gran... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Blame-the-Gays Game in U.S. Catholicism and What Rhetoric of Moral Decay Is...

  

  Things I'm reading lately that, to my way of thinking, belong together:James Alison, "Gay priests are 'caught in a trap of dishonesty'": In the previous round o... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• To LGBTQ Young People: If You Want Healthy Spiritual Lives, Walk Away from U.S....

  

  It's time for me to issue another of those public service announcements warning LGBTQ folks seeking healthy spiritual foundations and welcoming, affirming,... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Daughter of Argentinian Priest Speaks Out: "When Carlos Gamboa and the Church...

  

  The following is the testimony of Agustina Maria Gambo Arias, a young woman who was fathered by — but never supported or acknowledged publicly by — an... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Strange Story from Fort Worth Diocese: Is Public Shaming of Priests Thought to B...

  How odd that this ‘Open Letter from Young Catholics’ re McCarrick doesn’t once mention the pope under whose watch he was seamlessly promoted. Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Story Links to Story: In Recent News, Female Church Member Accuses Megachurch...

  

  Pieces of commentary I've read in the past few days that are, in my view, much more illuminating when read side-by-side:Laurie Goodstein, "He's a Superstar... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• James Alison on Homosexuality Among the Clergy, the Anatrella and McCarrick...

  

  Someone else who understands and has recently commented on the significance of the Anatrella (and McCarrick) story for those trying to revive the gay-bashing... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Bigger Picture in Sexual Abuse Stories Inside One Institution After...

  

  There's a recurring pattern here, isn't there, as if each individual story — spanning different faith communities and other institutions that are not faith... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Philippe Lefebvre Explains How Anatrella Held On So Long: "If You Are Scared...

  

  Here's another piece of valuable commentary to which MarkWilliam has pointed us, which places the current hot attempt of those defending the Vatican's "gay... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Anatrella and the Homophobic Catholic Two-Step: Footnote to This Morning's...

  

  In what I posted earlier today about the Tony Anatrella story, I mentioned to you that MarkWilliam had offered to translate for us an article about this story... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Ecclesiastical Censure of Tony Anatrella: "All Those Religious Officials with...

  

  In comments here in the past two days, Sarasi and MarkWilliam both noted that they had not seen news of the recent censure of the influential French... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Catholic Commentary Re: McCarrick Doubling Down on Calls to Bar Gays from...

  1) I see Catholic commentators on Twitter saying — all over again —in light of the McCarrick story that the solution to the abuse problem in the church is... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Mary Hunt on Next Phase of Abuse Revelations: "Adult Women Who Have Been Sexuall...

  

  What Mary Hunt says here is so critically important to be heard, as the hateful, homophobic Catholic right works overtime — once again — to frame the abuse stor... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Catholic Right Goes All In on Gay-Bashing Analysis of McCarrick Story — As...

  

  As Sarasi points out in a comment here this morning, the homophobic Catholic right is having a field day now trying to exploit the Cardinal McCarrick story to... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• When a Story About Chewing Gum Is Not About Chewing Gum: Transgender Teen...

  Was she denied Communion because she’d been chewing gum — or because she’s transgender? https://t.co/cm8rjukgYx— 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚊𝚖 𝙳. 𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚜𝚎𝚢 (@wdlindsy) July 27, 2018... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• More Reports on Shared Goal of Putin and U.S. White Evangelicals:...

  

  The story reported by Peter Montgomery, which I shared with you on Friday — that the neo-Confederate League of the South, classified as a hate group by... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• God, Guns, and White Supremacy: More Valuable Commentary About U.S. White...

  I keep trying to think of a historical explanation for the nonchalance of GOP leaders and voters about treason at the highest levels of government now, after th... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY