Tag: religion
member name: Scott P.
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October 08, 2008 08:37 AM EDT --
“Never trust the storyteller,” advises one of the thousands of characters who inhabit Rabih Alameddine’s 2008 novel, The Hakawati , “but always trust the stories.”
It’s good advice, . . .
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April 09, 2008 07:32 AM EDT --
As if to emphasize the fact that the laity are really beside the point in the view of the Pope Benedict XVI hierarchy, it appears that there will be no lay ministers serving at the Masses he is celebrating . . .
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April 17, 2008 08:24 PM EDT --
Don't get me wrong. I am pleased and proud that members of the gay Catholic group Dignity staked out the roadside along the Popemobile's route through Washington DC. For years, . . .
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May 05, 2008 08:13 AM EDT --
Last year, a lesbian couple in Wyoming, married in Canada, and mothers of three, got a surprise in the mail. At the request of their bishop ( David Ricken ), their pastor informed them by letter that . . .
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August 28, 2008 07:34 AM EDT --
I have a new defense for all those self-proclaimed orthodox bloggers who might criticize Saint Anthony Shrine for being welcoming of gay and lesbian Catholics:
At least we don’t have a Buddha.
It . . .
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May 13, 2008 08:26 AM EDT --
In Sal Sapienza's 2006 novel, Seventy Times Seven , Vito Fortunato gets lots of guidance from God, but the messages do not come via the burning bush. For Vito, the voice of God is . . .
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May 31, 2008 09:46 AM EDT --
Sex and The Sacred: Gay Identity and Spiritual Growth , by Daniel A. Helminiak (Binghamton: Harrington Park Press, 2006), 235pp.
by Scott D. Pomfret (Author of Since My Last Confession, www.sincemylastconfession.com . . .
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June 13, 2008 06:19 AM EDT --
Go to you local bookstore. Do it. Now. Check where they've shelved my book . Yup, you've guessed it – in the "Gay and Lesbian" section. Not, decidedly, in the "Catholic" . . .
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June 25, 2008 06:46 AM EDT --
Well, this is my "Dear Sean" letter. It's a perfect inversion. Instead of being about break-ups, it's about reconciliation. And leper kisses. That part is important.
Dear Cardinal . . .
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April 29, 2008 07:08 PM EDT --
Saint Pio of Pietrelcina was a cutter . Like a twentieth-century Amy Winehouse or one of those hunched-shoulder hollow-eyed Goth girls sporting black eyeliner and nail polish . . .
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June 04, 2008 10:42 PM EDT --
Below please find author readings/signings scheduled so far for my funny new book "Since My Last Confession: A Gay Catholic Memoir." More added all the time -- check back here . . . .
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February 15, 2008 08:45 AM EST --
It's not enough for the Church to resurrect the Latin Mass from 1962. It's not enough for priests who weren't even born ten years after Vatican II to nostalgically don priestly vestments . . .
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May 14, 2008 07:47 AM EDT --
According to the Boston Globe , the Vatican announced that belief in aliens from outer space is perfectly consistent with belief in God. Extra terrestrials, the Vatican's chief astronomer . . .
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May 31, 2008 09:43 AM EDT --
As you will read about in the book , YouTube can be addictive. I swear I am on the YouTube wagon, but someone sent me a video I could not help but sharing.
One of my projects is a nascent . . .
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March 16, 2008 09:47 PM EDT --
There will be no ceremonial flinging of the corned beef at Cardinal Sean Patrick O'Malley of Boston this year. The Cardinal has learned on the job. He may pick fights with gay folks , womenpriests . . .
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May 22, 2008 10:31 PM EDT --
60,000 people showed up in Yankee Stadium to celebrate Mass with Pope Benedict XVI. Tickets were in short supply. Several . . .
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