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International ‘Pro-Family’ Summit Calls for New Anti-Gay Laws: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…duced a video commemorating the first year of its Free & Equal campaign to promote the rights of LGBTI people. According to the video, “In the past year, more than a billion people around the world have read, seen, or heard the campaign’s message of respect and acceptance.” It says UN country teams around the world are preparing or have launched their own campaigns. Archbishop Desmond Tutu is among the human rights advocates who have recorded mess…

Marriage Vote ‘Transforms’ Not-So-Catholic Ireland; Activist to Malaysian PM – ‘Love Is Not Terrorism’; LGBTs Find Growing Acceptance in Colombia, Not At World Meeting of Families; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…losophy, is co-founder of a blog called Spiritual Friendship that seeks to promote celibacy as an admirable option for gay Christians. He said he believes that a majority of U.S. Catholics now support same-sex marriage, which became legal in all 50 states under a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June. Mr. Belgau doesn’t expect the church to change its teaching, but suggests that there might be ways to make gay couples feel more welcome — comparable to…

Gambian Leaders Portray Anti-Gay Law as Defense of Islam, Ugandan Politicians as ‘Christmas Gift’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…tations which, though very evil, antihuman as well as anti-Allah, is being promoted as a human right by some powers.” Fatou Camara, who briefly served as Jammeh’s communications director and hosted a Gambian television program before she was charged with sedition and fled to the United States, noted that the current wave of arrests took place just before Jammeh made a state visit to the Persian Gulf state of Qatar. While there, he signed a coopera…

World Meeting of Families Again Positions Queer Catholics as Children

By Ashley O'Mara

…worse, it takes great pains to erase our existence. Earlier this year, The Irish Times broke the story that queer families had been edited from some of the educational materials prepared for this month’s meeting. Language about “other unions” that “provide mutual support” was deleted; several stock photos apparently featuring same-sex couples had been deleted or replaced, primarily with photos of beaming heterosexual couples and their happy childr…

From Elon to Elizabeth: The 7 Seals of the 2022 Apocalypse

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…around to see the records of the glorious union between Black Twitter and Irish Twitter which gave Elizabeth the send-off she’d never have expected. Elizabeth’s death was a symbol of something bigger than some realize. Royalists pleading for civility upon her death were quickly admonished, for much of the public reminded them that now was actually the perfect time to remind the world of the unspoken horrors of the British royal family. Civility w…

Reconciliation and Reconciliation

By Daniel Schultz

…ciliation, and the reconciliation of various enemies, such as the Northern Irish factions or Palestinians and Israelis. There is even, God help us, the trans-partisan ideal of Democrats and Republicans working out their differences and governing in the best interest of all Americans. This seems to be the Obama administration’s preferred political strategy. Step one: get people of good will to come to the table to work out their differences and agr…

Krapp’s Last Tweet: The Rise (and Fall?) of Privilege in the Digital Economy

By Kevin Healey

…technologies augment justice for all rather than privilege for the few. Let’s hope—or rather, insist—that tech leaders and legislators alike take heed. If they do, there is reason for patient optimism. As the Irish-Iranian poet Kareem Tayyar suggests, in a piece that cautions against both blind ambition and premature despair, “there is no reason to think that your best days are already behind you.”…

Christianity Without the Cross

By Rosemary Ganley

…s also a stylish and readable book. “This is,” said Diarmuid O’Murchu, the Irish psychologist-priest-writer, and no slouch himself, “the best book of theology I have read in 20 years.” After finishing Proverbs of Ashes: Violence, Redemptive Suffering and the Search for What Saves Us in 2001, the two writers spent five years sniffing out evidence that the cruciform symbol, the central image of Christianity, arrived very late on the scene. Indeed, i…

The Hyperreal Kimmy Schmidt

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…rrected Covenant of the Holy Trinity. As we learn in the episode “Fighting Irish,” the church is located in the basement of a Cuban restaurant. Its leader is the creepy Reverend Gary – no relation, presumably, to Kimmy Schmidt’s Wayne Gary Wayne—who says things like “The stench of rotten flesh fills the air! Judgment is upon us all!” But the most interesting parallels don’t have to do with the two shows’ cartoonish fire-and-brimstone preachers nam…

How a Catholic-Majority SCOTUS Fulfilled an Evangelical Dream

By Katherine Kelaidis

…rved for Protestants of Northern European descent grew to include those of Irish, Southern European (most notably Greek and Italian), and, in some instances, Ashkenazi Jewish descent. All people previously excluded from American whiteness, all with sizable American communities. In this climate of an expanding scope of whiteness, evangelicals entered the political fray. Using the same logic as race, it was clear that in order to wield any political…