He took ntroversial posns, such as fendg ‘the ethil stat of homosexual love,’ and later revealed he was gay
Contents:
- THEOLOGIAN’S AUTOBGRAPHY EXPLAS HIS GAY JOURNEY
- BOMBSHELL: PRIT AT FOREONT OF PHG BIRTH CONTROL CANADA ADMS GAY LIFTYLE
- FR. MART PRAIS EXMUNITED GAY PRIT
THEOLOGIAN’S AUTOBGRAPHY EXPLAS HIS GAY JOURNEY
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McNeill, SJ, published The Church and the Homosexual, the first book-length theologil crique of the Catholic Church’s moral ban on same-sex relatnships. In an article the Febary 15, 1974 issue of Commonweal, Bm wrote an article entled “Catholic Homosexuals” which he fend the ethil stat of same-sex relatnships. In this book, for the first time publicly, Bm acknowledg that he is a gay man.
BOMBSHELL: PRIT AT FOREONT OF PHG BIRTH CONTROL CANADA ADMS GAY LIFTYLE
“Lookg back I began to realize that my vow of celibacy had not bee a meangful relig mment but simply a promise to bracket my homosexualy, to refe to explore s meang and power. Pat Nidorf, the founr of Digny, then a misterial support anizatn of gay and lbian Catholics, which ntu today a much-expand anizatn. First, he argued that “The fn of human nature tends to reflect the self-unrstandg of the cultural ele” and so “To say that homosexual love is ‘unnatural’ is to make a cultural statement, ” not a moral one.
) So he argued that “The church’s anti-homosexual rhetoric has produced a culture that spis and persecut homosexuals, vis cel punishments for homosexual acts, and fosters self-doubt and self-hatred homosexual men and women.
FR. MART PRAIS EXMUNITED GAY PRIT
New Ways Mistry was blsed to have Bm as a plenary speaker at our Fifth Natnal Symposium 2002 which was entled “Out of Silence God Has Called Us: Lbian/Gay Catholics the Vatin II Church.
In closg the chapter where he acknowledged his gay inty, Bm wrote the followg betiful analysis:.
“I have asked myself if there is a special meang the homosexual ndn.