Why John Henry Newman Is No 'Gay' Sat - OnePeterFive

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• ST. JOHN HENRY NEWMAN: THE FIRST OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC SAT?
• DID THE CATHOLICS NONIZE A GAY MAN?THE BATE OVER JOHN HENRY NEWMAN’S SEXUALY GO ONJONATHAN POLETTI·FOLLOWPUBLISHED I’M JONATHAN. I BLOG GOD.·5 M READ·OCT 20, 2019--4SHAREON OCTOBER 13, 2019, POPE FRANCIS CLARED THE ENGLISH CLERIC JOHN HENRY NEWMAN WAS A ‘SAT’, NEWMAN HAVG EVINTLY PERFORMED THE REQUIRED TWO POSTHUMO HEALGS.AND AN OLD BATE WAS RAISED ONCE AGA ABOUT THE TEACHER WHO IS RPECTED ACROSS ALL CHRISTIANY FOR HIS HUMANE, ECUMENIL TEACHGS. WAS JOHN HENRY NEWMAN ‘GAY’?TO MANY CATHOLICS, THE IA ULD ONLY BE HORROR AT ANYONE MAKG SUCH A VILE SUGGTN ABOUT SO FAVORED A DIVE SERVANT.JOHN NEWMAN BY ROBERT WHE THPP (1866)PRITS HAVE OFTEN BEEN THOUGHT SEXUALLY DIFFERENT.
• IS HENRY OM MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT GAY? JT ONE OF THE LI CHRISTA SAID ABOUT HER MAFS HBAND
• GAY SAT JOHN HENRY NEWMAN AND HIS “EARTHLY LIGHT” AMBROSE ST. JOHN SHARED ROMANTIC IENDSHIP
• WHY JOHN HENRY NEWMAN IS NO ‘GAY’ SAT
• WAS A WOULD-BE SAT GAY?
• THE GAY CHURCH

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

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. 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.

DID THE CATHOLICS NONIZE A GAY MAN?THE BATE OVER JOHN HENRY NEWMAN’S SEXUALY GO ONJONATHAN POLETTI·FOLLOWPUBLISHED I’M JONATHAN. I BLOG GOD.·5 M READ·OCT 20, 2019--4SHAREON OCTOBER 13, 2019, POPE FRANCIS CLARED THE ENGLISH CLERIC JOHN HENRY NEWMAN WAS A ‘SAT’, NEWMAN HAVG EVINTLY PERFORMED THE REQUIRED TWO POSTHUMO HEALGS.AND AN OLD BATE WAS RAISED ONCE AGA ABOUT THE TEACHER WHO IS RPECTED ACROSS ALL CHRISTIANY FOR HIS HUMANE, ECUMENIL TEACHGS. WAS JOHN HENRY NEWMAN ‘GAY’?TO MANY CATHOLICS, THE IA ULD ONLY BE HORROR AT ANYONE MAKG SUCH A VILE SUGGTN ABOUT SO FAVORED A DIVE SERVANT.JOHN NEWMAN BY ROBERT WHE THPP (1866)PRITS HAVE OFTEN BEEN THOUGHT SEXUALLY DIFFERENT.

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. ” 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.

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. 1 – Jim Toy (April 29, 1930 – January 1, 2022) Asian Amerin pneer for LGBTQ rights Michigan and Epispalian whose church activism clud servg on Dcan Commissn on Homosexualy 1971. 17 – Homosexual “temptatn” me to third-century Egyptian sat Anthony of the Dert, one of the founrs of Christian monasticism, the form of an attractive young man.

IS HENRY OM MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT GAY? JT ONE OF THE LI CHRISTA SAID ABOUT HER MAFS HBAND

Templeton (1954 – March 24, 1997) was a Prbyterian mister Belfast, Northern Ireland who was murred after beg “outed” as a gay man by a lol newspaper.

GAY SAT JOHN HENRY NEWMAN AND HIS “EARTHLY LIGHT” AMBROSE ST. JOHN SHARED ROMANTIC IENDSHIP

An Augtian prit and psychologist, he began Digny 1969 as a mistry for gay and lbian Catholics San Diego, California, and grew to a natnal LGBTQ Catholic anizatn. June 14 – John Gray (March 2, 1866 – June 14, 1934) was a Catholic prit whose romantic partner was Marc-André Raffalovich, a wealthy poet and early fenr of homosexualy. He and South Ain lbian activist Bev Dsie anized South Ai’s first LGBTQ Pri para 1990 as -founrs of GLOW (Gay and Lbian Organisatn of the Wwatersrand).

They jo the pany of Sebastian, patron sat of homosexualy, Pl the Apostle, who may have stggled wh homosexual sir, and John the Evangelist, who was possibly the “Beloved Disciple” of J — who are also venerated by queer Christians for a variety of reasons. This All Sats’ Day — and honor of All Souls’ Day — here’s a look at the ia that there are sats and martyrs of Christiany who were eher genr non-nformg, or who exhibed strong same-sex bonds or attractns — or who simply stggled wh what may have been homosexual sire.

WHY JOHN HENRY NEWMAN IS NO ‘GAY’ SAT

And when to queer-revered sats such as Sebastian, ’s important to unrstand that when we say he is regard as the patron sat of homosexualy, ’s not bee of anythg he did while alive, but merely bee of his longstandg populary wh gay men. John Henry Newman, a 19th-century Brish scholar, theologian and rdal, was nonized by the Pope as a Roman Catholic sat 2019 amid rampant speculatn that he was gay.

WAS A WOULD-BE SAT GAY?

“I nsir the failure to separate their remas a queer miracle for nonizatn, ” said queer theologian Robert Shore-Goss, a former Catholic Ju prit and thor of the classic “J Acted Up: A Gay and Lbian Manifto.

Tradnal and alternative sats, people the Bible, LGBTQ martyrs, thors, theologians, relig lears, artists, i and other figur of special tert to lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr and queer (LGBTQ) people and our alli are vered.

THE GAY CHURCH

I want to give a shout out to my iends the Catholic Church reform movement there, those We Are Church Ireland and the Associatn of Catholic Prits Ireland, and those who belonged to the group Gay Catholic Voice Ireland, as well as to my iends who anized and participated the Archdce of Dubl’s “All Are Wele” mass for LGBTI people and alli.

Today, I hope to give you some rmatn about gay men and the Catholic prithood, look a b at Newman’s language of love, and exame a b what is that we mean by the word “gay” self. I don’t mean to say this a flippant way, but simply to pot out that the way the qutn has been amed impli that a gay inty is the exceptn to the cleril le. Although there are no statistics available, my experience—and that of many Catholics–tells me that the large majory of Catholic prits are gay, and that a heterosexual orientatn is the exceptn to the le.