Cardinal Schonborn: Four Months, and In Favour - Queering the Church

It is now over four months since the Cardinal Archbishop of Vienna made his remarks on the need to replace the Catholic obsession with homosexual acts with far greater emphasis on the quality of the relationships. For all those who expected a flood of outraged repudiation and denial, there has been - nothing, not a peep. There was a well-publicized meeting with Pope Benedict that some observers saw as a dressing-down – but the discussions appear to have been solely on the criticisms of Cardinal Sordano, not the remarks on sexuality. Even that, if it was indeed some kind of rebuke, is quite clearly now gone and forgotten. For the pope’s annual gathering of his former theology students, Cardinal Schonborn had a signal place of honour, being invited to deliver the homily at the closing Mass, which Benedict himself celebrated.

Read more:
http://queering-the-church.com/blog/gay-catholics-christians/cardinal-schonborn-four-months-and-in-favour/

The Quality Of Lasting Homosexual Relationships

Deserve Respect

Roman Catholic -->Cardinal Christoph Schönborn,

Vienna

http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/08/quality-of-lasting-homosexual_7979.html

Unmasking subtle heterosexism: Microaggressions and microvalidations in everyday life - Unmasking subtle heterosexism in everyday life. By Dr. Brian Mustanski, March 15, 2009 – Psychology Today

Columbia University Psychologist Dr. Derald Wing Sue has pioneered research on what are called "racial microaggressions" or experiences of racism that are so subtle that neither victim nor perpetrator may entirely understand what is going on. These microaggressions can range from more overt behaviors like name calling, to insensitivity to a person's racial heritage, to comments that negate the feelings of minority people. Think about things like an Asian American person repeatedly being asked "where are you from?" which can send the message that they are not American. Or an African American person being followed around a store. In both of these cases it isn't entirely clear that a racist even occurred, but if you are a minority and these things happen all the time you start to really notice them. While a single negative comment isn't likely to send someone spiraling to full blown depression or substance abuse, emerging research suggests that the accumulation of these subtle negative experiences can build up and may prove to be especially toxic for minority people.

Dr. Sue has grouped various kinds of microaggressions into three areas:

A microassault is an explicit verbal or nonverbal attack meant to hurt the intended victim through name-calling, avoidant behavior, or purposeful discriminatory actions.

Read more:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-sexual-continuum/200903/unmasking-subtle-heterosexism-microaggressions-and-microvalidations

"No sensible person can imagine that the sexes differ in matters of love as they do in matters of clothing. The intelligent lover of beauty will be attracted to beauty in whichever gender he finds it." Plutarch

The Way You Look Tonight - Steve Tyrell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTd3P2vaGts&p=897A5A48C7A146FA&playnext=1&index=38

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Gay Marriage -> Restores “Hope of Love”

To Children In Early Childhood

http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/08/gay-marriage-restores-hope-of-love-to.html

Father of the Bride [Score] - Alan Silvestri

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgyT5Ovy7yI&feature=related

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Plutarch

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/pwh/1979boswell.html

A Kiss To Build A Dream On

KD Lang

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jygdjphIsWM&feature=related

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The Quality Of Lasting Homosexual Relationships

Deserve Respect

Roman Catholic -->Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, Vienna

http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/08/quality-of-lasting-homosexual_7979.html

Marriage Equality - The Golden Girls ->

restoring - hope of love

http://gayrights.change.org/blog/view/the_golden_girls_take_on_gay_marriage

(Today I met) The Boy I'm Gonna Marry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnHujxAVBI4&feature=related

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Gay Marriage Ruling A Matter of Simple Justice – by Geoffrey R. Stone - law professor at the University of Chicago - Chicago Tribune

"Who does he think he is, anyway? Thirty-one states have put the issue of same-sex marriage to a vote in recent years, and every single one of them has rejected it. Now, here comes another activist judge blatantly disregarding the will of the majority and holding that 'We the People' can't do what we want. It's an outrage, I tell you, an outrage."

This more or less captures the tone of much of the criticism of Judge Vaughn Walker's decision in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, holding California's Proposition 8 unconstitutional. This criticism is based on a deep misunderstanding of what "We the People" means. The United States Constitution is premised on the notion of majority rule, but with a very important caveat.

The framers of our Constitution fully recognized the dangers as well as the strengths of majority rule. They understood that the majority will sometimes act in ways that are not truly public-regarding, but are instead a reflection of prejudice, intolerance, ignorance, panic and crude self-interest. A profound puzzle the framers encountered was how to deal with this danger.

Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, Vienna -> The Quality Of Lasting Homosexual Relationships Deserve Respect

In March 1997, after attending a National Symposium of the New Ways Ministry that was held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, I learned that children as young as 4 and 5 years of age know that they are different.  This feeling “different” is only identified in their adult years as being gay. However, the harmful influence of antigay social and religious norms -- in particular, for Catholics the Vatican’s unsubstantiated antigay teachings -- are severe and are lasting throughout a child’s lifetime.  The harmful effects are not isolated only to these children who grow up to be gay, but affects their families, siblings, friends and anyone who they might consider special in their life. It is a prescribed societal sentence of implicit isolation, which places at risk of suicide so many innocent adolescents and young adults. It stifles an enormous amount of human potential in the world that otherwise could be put to use for finding cures for diseases, offer better ways of maintaining peace among people and improve the quality of living for everyone in the world. Read more –

http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/06/cardinal-christoph-schonborn-op-quality.html

Court Rejects Same-Sex Marriage Ban in California - By Jesse McKinley and John Schwartz - August 4, 2010 - The New York Times

SAN FRANCISCO - Saying that it unfairly targets gay men and women, a federal judge in San Francisco struck down California’s voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage on Wednesday, handing supporters of such unions a temporary victory in a legal battle that seems all but certain to be settled by the Supreme Court. Read more -

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/05/us/05prop.html?_r=1&hp


Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, Vienna -> The Quality Of Lasting Homosexual Relationships Deserve Respect
http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/06/cardinal-christoph-schonborn-op-quality.html

Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, O.P. -> The Quality Of Lasting Homosexual Relationships Deserve Respect – Courage To Protect All Children – Thank You

In March 1997, after attending a National Symposium of the New Ways Ministry that was held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, I learned that children as young as 4 and 5 years of age know that they are different.  This feeling “different” is only identified in their adult years as being gay. However, the harmful influence of antigay social and religious norms -- in particular, for Catholics the Vatican’s unsubstantiated antigay teachings -- are severe and are lasting throughout a child’s lifetime.  The harmful effects are not isolated only to these children who grow up to be gay, but affects their families, siblings, friends and anyone who they might consider special in their life. It is a prescribed societal sentence of implicit isolation, which places at risk of suicide so many innocent adolescents and young adults. It stifles an enormous amount of human potential in the world that otherwise could be put to use for finding cures for diseases, offer better ways of maintaining peace among people and improve the quality of living for everyone in the world. 

After the New Ways Ministry National Symposium in March 1997, in good conscience I felt intensely morally obligated to “come out” as a gay Catholic priest, to my parishioners, at Holy Family Parish, Sparta, Michigan USA, to draw public attention to this implicit form of child abuse.  This abuse is caused by the harmful influence of antigay social and religious norms, in particular, for Catholics, the Vatican’s unsubstantiated antigay teachings.  My background study in this area is extensive, far beyond that of the average person. However, since I have come out, I have been subjected to overt as well as covert retaliation coming from the Vatican. I was ordered to be sent away to be re-educated regarding sexual orientation, to subject myself to conversion or reparative therapy, not a lobotomy but similar. I refused to consent to this inhuman treatment because of the obvious clinical research data.  And because I did so in retaliation I lost my regular priest salary for the past 13 years, my earned sabbatical terms and my status for any future assignments in my Diocese of Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA.

At the same time, an insider to the Vatican warned me that I could really be hurt severely by people in the Vatican. And even though this person was dead serious, I passed this warning off as being someone’s overactive imagination that was a bit bizarre. I thought: after all, this is the USA, what do I have to fear? However, as time has shown, I was too naive about the tactics of Cardinal Ratzinger (later Benedict XVI, assuming that he was directing those tactics) and his accomplices both in and outside the Vatican to realize that this person was telling me the truth in order to protect me.  However, this covert retaliation has been substantial.  My car was repossessed in July 2009 and as of June 26, 2010, I will lose my home to foreclosure and literally be on the streets. There is no question that I have been steadily attacked, starting in 1997 and more so immediately after Benedict XVI became Pope in April 2005. 

Like Lazarus at the gate of the Rich Man I need financial support. I believe the Thalamus Center has the potential to become the watershed that is thoroughly renewing to the Church. Why? Because the most likely reason there have been so many cover-ups of child sexual abuse by leaders of the Catholic Church is that no one heard the cries of those leaders when they were children, and so as adults they are completely unaware of the cries of children now. They are wrong when they try to blame homosexuals for the sexual abuse cases in the Church, but the Vatican’s unsubstantiated antigay teachings may more than likely be the reason that led to the decades of their cover-ups.

The above sounds outrageous and utterly fantastic -– as any true risks taken in the name of Christ’s love tend to be. I suspect that Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, O.P. is well acquainted with this reality from experience. I want to thank Cardinal Schönborn, for the brave statement he made in his background conversation with reporters (as reported in The Church in the World by Christa Pongratz-Lippitt - 8 May 2010 – The Tablet).

http://www.thetablet.co.uk/article/14678

We should give more consideration to the quality of homosexual relationships,” you said, adding: “A stable relationship is certainly better than if someone chooses to be promiscuous.

I was going to write an article about how promiscuous behavior that is likely a direct result of the harmful influence of the Vatican’s unsubstantiated antigay teaching destroys a child’s ability to bond to another human being, which is severely disrupted in early childhood psychological developmental years growing up gay. However, I suspected that Cardinal Schönborn already might realize this likely possibility.

In deep appreciation for all children,

Fr. Marty Kurylowicz

. . . .Written by Martin S. Kurylowicz, M.Div., M.S.

Edited by Madeline Wright, Ph.D., M.S. . . . .

“We will win with LOVE - not with guns…

the Nazis will disappear

because evil will devour itself.

But…

if LOVE does not win out –

the Nazis will just come back under a

different name…”

- Karol: A Man Who Became Pope -

http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/06/karol-man-who-became-pope-power-of-one.html

Auschwitz - Christmas 2008

http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/06/auschwitz-christmas-2008-flashback-far_10.html

“Any IDEOLOGY that needs to attack

the thing that least threatens it,

is an ideology that

will not outlive its own generation.

INCLUSION

not Exclusion … is the key to survival”

 - The Power Of One - 

http://books.google.com/books?id=khEua4UXieMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+power+of+one+bryce+courtenay&source=bl&ots=Y67Zm3Y0Qa&sig=usekAlOOgs-x0Kuu6rzSFb-mRQU&hl=en&ei=-D4iTKuvKcHknAeWlOQm&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CEYQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q&f=false

Protect children and the entire world will be safe.

“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

…whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.

Matthew 18:6

Important note: No disrespect meant to Pope Benedict XVI or the hierarchy, the one and only concern is the safety and well-being of children.

Kids Are Being Hurt!!!

http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/06/get-funding-for-thalamus-center-or-get_320.html

George Rekers - A Heaven-Sent RENT BOY & Vatican - MALE PROSTITUTION RING … “Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret.”

 “Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret.”

Though you drive Nature out with 

a pitchfork,

she will still find her way back. 

A Heaven-Sent Rent Boy

By Frank Rich – May 14, 2010 - The New York Times

OF all wars, only culture wars offer the hope of sheer, unadulterated hilarity. Sex and hypocrisy were staples of farce long before America became a nation, and they never go out of style. Just listen to the roaring audience at the new hit Broadway revival of the perennial “La Cage aux Folles,” where a family-values politician gets his comeuppance in drag. Or check out the real-life closet case of George Rekers, who has been fodder for late-night television comics all month. Poster 

LASTING GAY RELATIONSHIPS DESERVE RESPECT - Unprecedented Vienna Cardinal Schonborn - by Sylvia Poggioli (NPR)

Thousands In St. Peter's Square 

Rally For Pope  

by SYLVIA POGGIOLI 

 May 17, 2010 – National Public Radio (NPR)

…Anger and nervousness is reflected within the top ranks, where a tradition of silence and secrecy has prevailed for centuries. And not everyone is willing to embrace Benedict's new zero-tolerance policy.

In an unprecedented move, Vienna Cardinal Christoph Schonborn accused the dean of the College of Cardinals, Angelo Sodano, of having obstructed investigations against pedophile priests while he was number two to Pope John Paul II. Photo 

Care for 'the least among us' should guide Congress, Pelosi says – By Patricia Zapor, May 7, 2010 - Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Jesus' admonition to care for "the least among us" is a philosophy she tries daily to bring to the work of Congress, said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi May 6, speaking to participants in a Washington briefing sponsored by the National Catholic Reporter and Trinity Washington University. Photo 

She also urged priests and bishops to speak from the pulpit about the need for comprehensive immigration reform...

In remarks that quoted Pope Benedict XVI's 2006 encyclical "Deus Caritas Est" ("God Is Love") and St. Augustine, Pelosi, a graduate of Trinity, described the religious influences on her actions in Congress as stemming from Christ's teachings about loving one another and caring for those in society who have the least.  Read more http://www.uscatholic.org/news/2010/05/care-least-among-us-should-guide-congress-pelosi-says