In my last post, I provid Fr. Thomas Rosi's terview of the notor heretic Gregory Bm to give rears a snapshot of former's heterodox leangs. Who is Gregory Bm? He is an ex-prit married to a former nun; a man who has long been a vol supporter of gay marriage, ntraceptn, fornitn, and Communn for
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
He took ntroversial posns, such as fendg ‘the ethil stat of homosexual love,’ and later revealed he was gay * gregory baum gay *
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. “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.
BOMBSHELL: PRIT AT FOREONT OF PHG BIRTH CONTROL CANADA ADMS GAY LIFTYLE
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.
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. God creat the great majory of humans heterosexual and only a small mory homosexual. Sce they are an opprsed mory, aware of the hypocrisy of society and the damage done by the domant culture, I have suggted that gays and lbians are tend to extend solidary to all margalized groups and mand greater jtice.
FR. MART PRAIS EXMUNITED GAY PRIT
Bee homosexuals are largely visible society, their prophetic votn will have a cultural impact and support the stggle for human emancipatn. Gregory Bm Roman is shown this July 13, 1970 Globe and MailGregory Bm was one of Roman Catholicism's outstandg theologians of the 20th century, who let the Holy Spir – rather than the stutnal church – direct his rtls, cur md and uld never unrstand why land him so nsistently ntroversy, cricism and lled himself "the first Catholic theologian who publicly fend the ethil stat of homosexual love.