I actually agree with James Martin on one very important point
During an interview with The Jesuit Post, James Martin said the following: …it seems like the majority of the LGBT Catholic community does not agree with the church’s teaching on same-sex relations:
The day Father started Mass before the guitar choir was ready
When I returned to the Catholic Church in 1999, I did so as a man who could only remember the folk guitar Masses of the 1970s. For I grew up believing that Simon and Garfunkel’s
Dore Alley Outreach 2017
And they began to pray him that he would depart from their coasts. And when he went up into the ship, he that had been troubled with the devil, began to beseech him that he
San Francisco “Pride” Outreach 2017
Our Lord calls us to come nearer to him, to be like him: "Be imitators of God, as his dearly beloved children," cooperating humbly but fervently in the divine purpose of mending what is broken,
A Holy Family, the lost child, and salvation from homosexuality
Above: John Dickson Batten, “The Family” (1886) I have no recollection of ever seeing my parents pray when I was a child. We never prayed the Rosary together as a family. I probably knew well
This is going to be a strange testimonial for the Catholic Church –
When I returned to the Church of my ineffectual, 1970s, guitar-strumming, hand-holding around the altar youth – I was an ex-porn actor and Satanist; I was half-dead and half of my backside was hanging-out; I
Who am I to choose? – Catholics cannot agree if same-sex desires are chosen.
Several well-known Catholic priests, speakers, and writers have recently talked about the issue of homosexuality and purposefully emphasized the point: that a homosexual attraction, desire, or inclination is not a choice. Here are some
2016 San Francisco Pride Outreach – You Are Not Gay!
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Family Lies: Why some parents would rather embrace “gay” than face the truth…
The Catholic mother of a “gay” son, after finding out about his homosexuality, said: “I felt a great sigh of relief since I had imagined many worse things like: drugs, terrible sickness, trouble with police,
“…he was lost, and is found:” Advice for the parents of “gay” children
About the parable of “the prodigal son,” St. John Paul once wrote: “The parable indirectly touches upon every breach of the covenant of love, every loss of grace, every sin.” For the parents of “gay”
Respected, Welcomed, and Accompanied – The new Catholic “gay” guide for families
“The Church has modeled her attitude to the Lord Jesus that in the boundless love he offered to every person without exception (MV, 12). To the families who live the experience to have within them
Folsom Street Fair Outreach 2015
“Do not wait for leaders. Do it alone, person-to-person.” “We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
I never met a “gay” person…
Although I spent over a decade in the homosexual enclaves of San Francisco and Los Angeles, I never met a “gay” man…the people I did meet were mostly battered and wounded souls that somehow wound
“To those who say I am gay…” – Summer Outreach in the Castro
To those who say: ‘I am gay,” I proclaim that – “There is another way!” I am often asked what I talk about with the gay men and women I meet at these outreaches: it’s
Dore Alley 2015 Outreach
“I will seek that which was lost: and that which was driven away, I will bring again: and I will bind up that which was broken, and I will strengthen that which was weak…” (Ezk
The Case for Gay Intervention
The best show on TV right now is A&E’s “Intervention.” It is thoroughly compelling and incredibly difficult to watch. Dealing primarily with alcohol and drug addiction, the hour long program features one or several addicts,
“They Are All Looking for a Father;” and more musing from the 2015 San Francisco Gay Pride Parade
This year’s San Francisco Gay Pride Parade was billed as “historic” because just two days before, the Supreme Court issued its ruling which legalized same-sex marriage throughout the US. Yet, despite the apparent reasons to
To Truly Love a Gay Relative or Friend – Is to Say Goodbye
When unsuspecting parents from Memphis, Tennessee found out one of their sons was gay, the devout Catholics offered up affirmation. “We made every effort to make it easier for him to come out,” the mother
Healing the Gay Family Tree
“The Gospels clearly describe the fatherly responsibility of Joseph toward Jesus. For salvation-which comes through the humanity of Jesus-is realized in actions which are an everyday part of family life, in keeping with that ‘condescension’
Guess Who’s Not Coming to Dinner: How Catholics Can Save Gay Lives
“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them. For the things which are done by them in secret it is a shame even to speak of. But all