…"It is not good for a Pope to live 20 years," Newman once wrote of the long-lived Pius IX. "It is an anomaly and bears no good fruit; he becomes a god, has no one to contradict him, does not know facts, and does cruel things without meaning it."
Such frank talk about the failings of the hierarchy tended to make Newman a champion of liberal Catholics -- a courageous man who wrote about the "development of doctrine" in the church at a time when the Vatican was projecting an image of unceasing continuity. He also disagreed strongly with the church's adoption of the doctrine of papal infallibility, and famously wrote that if pressed, he would drink "to Conscience first and the Pope afterwards."
…Complicating all the interpretations is the fact that Newman had an extraordinarily close relationship with another English Catholic, Father Ambrose St. John, who had died in 1875, leaving Newman bereft -- and giving today's gay Christians an icon of their own.
"I have ever thought no bereavement was equal to that of a husband's or a wife's, but I feel it difficult to believe that any can be greater, or any one's sorrow greater, than mine," Newman wrote at the time of his friend's death. "From the first he loved me with an intensity of love which was unaccountable." And elsewhere: "As far as this world was concerned I was his first and last."
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/09/18/pope-benedict-to-beatify-a-gay-saint-a-conservative-icon-maybe/Was a Would-Be Saint Gay? - By Jeff Israely Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008 - TIME
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1837124,00.html
Was Cardinal John Henry Newman Gay?
by Barbara Bradley Hagerty
All Things Considered, September 17, 2010
National Public Radio (NPR)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129930850
“Drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first.”
Cardinal John Newman
Pope Benedict trip: Why move John Henry Newman toward sainthood?
By Robert Marquand, September 17, 2010
The Christian Science Monitor.
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2010/0917/Pope-Benedict-trip-Why-move-John-Henry-Newman-toward-sainthood
The Quality Of Lasting Homosexual Relationships Deserve Respect
Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, Vienna
http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/08/cardinal-christoph-schonborn-vienna.html
SEXUAL CONVERSION THERAPIES
Jack Drescher, M.D.
http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/08/sexual-conversion-therapies-jack.html
The Use of Erikson’s Developmental Theory with Gay Men from Rural Communities
by Keith W. Beard, Psy.D. & Amy Hissam, M.A.
Marshall University – 2002
http://www.marshall.edu/jrcp/jrcp%20intro%20glbt/JRCP%20Erikson.htm
Single, Angry, Straight Male... Seeks Same?
By Jesse Bering – January 30, 2009 – Scientific America
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=single-angry-straight-male
Gay Marriage -> Restores “Hope of Love” To Children In Early Childhood – Marriage Equality – March 23, 2010 – By Fr. Marty Kurylowicz
http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/09/gay-marriage-restores-hope-of-love-to.html
Should Being Gay Be a Family Secret?
by Dr. Ana Nogales – July 14, 2010
Psychology Today
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/bloggers/dr-ana-nogales
“Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins is the mutilation of a child’s spirit.”
Erik Erikson
Kids Are Being Hurt!!!
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