Monday, September 19, 2011

"Learning to Listen: Voices of Sexual Diversity and the Catholic Church."





That's the title of a conference held at Fordham, ("the Jesuit University in New York") last Friday.  The Jesuit magazine America has been excited about the conference since last spring.

Wondering who was meant to listen, and to what, and for what purpose, I came across this from the sponsor's website:

"For too long, the conversation on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues in the Roman Catholic Church has been only a monologue — the sole voice being heard is that of the institutional Catholic Church.  We must engage in more than a monologue by having a 21st century conversation on sexual diversity, with new and different voices heard from."

Question answered.

St. Ignatius Loyola, pray for us.

2 comments:

  1. "The Jesuit magazine America has been excited about the conference since last spring."

    Jesuits tend to be excitable these days.

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  2. Indeed. But being Jesuits, their excitability is wrapped in that grave fatuity which has become their trademark.

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