Mr. Peter Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and a candidate for the presidency of the United States, has picked a theological quarrel with Mike Pence, the current vice-president.
In a recent article for Crisis, I took to task Fr. James Martin, S.J., for calling it a cause for celebration, when a teenage boy declared to his father, on Thanksgiving, that he was a homosexual.
The Catholic Church has been criticized by many, including some of its own followers, for its pastoral response to the LGBT community.
Fr. Martin is correct: a bridge must be built between the Catholic Church and those struggling with same-sex and trans-gender issues. But it cannot be built of tissue paper of "suggestions" based on rhetorical questions and sophistry.
Christians are always, in a sense, outsiders.
The Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education recently issued an instruction stating that schools that fail to use transgender students' "preferred names and pronouns" are committing harassment.
Suddenly, in the course of a minor Internet thread, I was face to face with my own intrinsic disorder.
The idea that one's sex is a feeling, not a fact, has permeated our culture and is leaving casualties in its wake. Gender dysphoria should be treated with psychotherapy, not surgery.
Logic sinks without a trace in a trackless seas of assertions and theories.
May I make two requests? Love me, but remember that you cannot be more merciful than God. It isn't mercy to affirm same-sex acts as good. Don't compromise truth; help me to live in harmony with it.
