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.
BOMBSHELL: PRIT AT FOREONT OF PHG BIRTH CONTROL CANADA ADMS GAY LIFTYLE
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. “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.
FR. MART PRAIS EXMUNITED GAY PRIT
) 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. 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:.