St. John Henry Newman: The First Openly Gay Catholic Sat? - New Ways Mistry

Contents:

• ST. JOHN HENRY NEWMAN: THE FIRST OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC SAT?
• GAY PRITS: BREAKG THE SILENCE
• * J. ROBERT WILLIAMS; FIRST OPENLY GAY EPISPAL PRIT
• * J. ROBERT WILLIAMS; FIRST OPENLY GAY EPISPAL PRIT
• 1ST GAY MALE EPISPAL PRIT IS ORDAED
• A GAY CATHOLIC PRIT REFLECTS ON HIS FIRST PRI!

ST. JOHN HENRY NEWMAN: THE FIRST OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC SAT?

Is he the Catholic Church’s first openly gay sat? The answer to that qutn pends on your fns of “openly, ” “gay, ” and “first. Many tradnalist Newman scholars refute the ia that this was a gay relatnship.

Ian Ker, one of the foremost Newman scholars, says that the relatnship was not homosexual bee, by all acunts, the two were celibate. Other scholars believe that to ll the uple gay is readg our own 21st century ias to 19th century phenomena.

I agree that is not right to terpret a past relatnship terms of today’s morn awarens of homosexualy. But that’s where we need to qutn what we might mean by “gay” and “openly. John were not gay bee is apparent that they were celibate.

GAY PRITS: BREAKG THE SILENCE

Ker’s prumptn then is that “gay” means “sexually active. Of urse, the two men uld be gay and have had a strong affectnate and timate relatnship whout beg sexually active, jt as many gay men the prithood and relig life today mata their promis and vows of celibacy. Many gay lay also live their liv by choosg not to be sexually timate wh someone.

That don’t make them ls gay.

Defendg Newman’s non-homosexualy by sayg that the prit was affectnate relatnships wh both men and women tri to expla away Newman’s love for St. While some people thk that homophobia agast gay men om a revulsn about male sex acts, I thk that for many people the more horrifyg and sndalo phenomenon is men beg emotnally sensive, tenr, and affectnate wh one another. Of urse, such gentle and timate rpons by men is only a problem if one suffers om tense homophobia or believ the enforcement of strict genr expectatns that men should not be emotnal and rg toward one another.

* J. ROBERT WILLIAMS; FIRST OPENLY GAY EPISPAL PRIT

William Hart McNichols, a prent-day, openly gay prit. The other issue about Newman’s sexualy om our unrstandg of what means to be “openly gay.

* J. ROBERT WILLIAMS; FIRST OPENLY GAY EPISPAL PRIT

” In the 21st century world, there is an unspoken expectatn afoot that to be “openly gay” means havg ma some very public statements about one’s orientatn and inty. Fally, if we of Newman as the first openly gay sat, we also have to look at what we mean by “first”? Yet, I thk a good se n be ma for Newman beg the “first openly gay” Catholic sat for the simple reason that we know so much more about him and his relatnship than we do about the other exampl.

From what I know (admtedly limed), I thk the se for Newman’s openly gay inty is the strongt. Gay prits: Breakg the silence.

He is one of very few openly gay prits. Father Green "me out" to his ngregatn this Milwkee suburb about three years ago, at age 51, when he announced, "I am a gay prit, and a celibate prit. " This moment me after a lifetime of stggle, servg a church that teach that "actg on" homosexual feelgs is a s.

1ST GAY MALE EPISPAL PRIT IS ORDAED

Father Greg Green is one of a very few openly gay prits Ameri. He found folks his ngregatn were overwhelmgly asked Carol Webber, "Do matter to you that the prit here is gay?

" Later, they say havg an openly-gay prit helped. ""It says that 's not ol to be gay if you're a prit. And if you are gay and a prit both at the same time, you've gotta hi one or the other.

A GAY CATHOLIC PRIT REFLECTS ON HIS FIRST PRI!

While Pope Francis famoly rpond "Who am I to judge" when asked about gay prits durg a papal prs nference, he has also said that anyone wh "ep seated" homosexual tennci shouldn't be a prit. "Their place is not mistry or nsecrated life, " he Jam Mart, a Ju prit and thor, and the most high-profile advote for LGBTQ Catholics, said, "I thk that if you had sudnly all the gay prits the Uned Stat e out, I thk the Church would be forced to look at the qutn of homosexualy a very different light. We have high suici rat among LGBT youth, and we also have plac the world where gay people n be arrted and executed for beg gay.

"He lls Pope Francis (the first pope to e the word "gay" publicly) the most pro-LGBTQ pope ever, though acknowledgg that's "not a high bar. " "One of the thgs I lament is, if there were a se of, say, bullyg a parish or a school, would be wonrful for the gay prit to get up and say, 'Look, I was bullied as a boy, '" Father Mart said. "How many gay prits do you thk there are?