June is a favourite month for Gay Pride marches, and this year they have taken on particular poignancy because of the massacre at an LGBT nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Many gay people saw this attack as homophobic. Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Archbishop of Munich and Freising, said recently that the Catholic Church owed gays an apology for having contributed to a climate of homophobia. Pope Francis, asked about this at a press conference on board the papal aircraft, agreed. “I believe that the Church not only must say it’s sorry … to this person that is gay that it has offended,” he said. “But it must say it’s sorry to the poor, also, to mistreated women, to children forced to work.”
29 June 2016, The Tablet
Gay people are made in the image of God
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I find Lonergan's cognitional structure hugely informative about the image of God. We Homo sapiens, indeed, wonder and understand, reflect and judge, ponder and decide. It's a triple cord of operations: understanding, judgment, decision. Very much in the image of the Trinity. All human persons, straight, gay, conservative, leftist, and so on, I have ever talked to or read, perform these operations. They are all incarnate spirits so far as I can tell.