Category Archives: Homosexuality

Anti-Gay Bullying at St. John’s

Posted on October 12, 2010
Posted in Eric Loehr, Homosexuality, Opinion

However, the bullying carries much farther than a high school or university classroom. Homosexual men and women, as well as those who support them, are being turned away from one faith community.

St. John’s Abbey… on Monk Sexuality

Posted on October 11, 2010
Posted in Bob Pierson, Homosexuality, St. John's

We believe that human sexual orientation, both heterosexual and homosexual, is blessed by God as part of the original blessing of creation. We reject any suggestion that God withholds his blessings from some parts of his creation… We believe that … Continue reading →

Homosexual Activists Confront Archbishop at College Mass

Posted on October 8, 2010
Posted in Harry Flynn, Homosexuality, John Eidenschink, Michael Hemmesch, Pat Marker, Rene McGraw, Review Board, Robert Koopmann

“It’s the Church that’s causing the problems here, not the students or their opinions. In comparison to the Benedictines and the College of St. Benedict/St. John’s University community, Nienstedt and archbishops in general are conservative.” – Fr. Rene McGraw, St. … Continue reading →

Wolves among the Sheep: The Collegeville Affair

Posted on October 7, 2010
Posted in Homosexuality, Rene McGraw

But far worse is the fact that a priest, Fr. Rene McGraw, who is also a philosophy professor at St. John’s, immediately gathered the student gay activists together and said a separate Mass for them so that he could give … Continue reading →

Archbishop denies GLBT group its Communion during CSB/SJU event

Posted on October 6, 2010
Posted in Homosexuality, John Nienstedt

The archbishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis refused to serve Communion to members of a gay and lesbian student group who were wearing rainbow buttons at a Sept. 26 Mass at St. John’s University’s campus.

Gay Activists Denied Communion

Posted on October 5, 2010
Posted in Homosexuality, John Nienstedt

During a St. John’s Abbey mass, students and others wearing protest buttons and sashes received Archbishop John Nienstedt’s hand of blessing rather than the eucharist.

Catholic Sex Scandal

Posted on July 23, 2010
Posted in Homosexuality, Rome

A gay priest sex scandal has rocked the Catholic Church in Italy today after a weekly news magazine released details of a shock investigation it had carried out.

Church blasts gay priests leading `double life’

Posted on July 23, 2010
Posted in Homosexuality, Rome

ROME – The Italian church says gay priests must not lead a “double life,” expressing pain and anger over a magazine article and video purporting to show priests frequenting gay locales in Rome.

Controversial Conversations

Posted on August 1, 2007
Posted in Celibacy, Dale Launderville, Homosexuality, Jerome Tupa

“… the Catholic Church’s adamant opposition to gay marriage, coupled with its recent moves to restrict even celibate gay men from ordination, is a source of puzzlement if not scandal.” – CSB/SJU White Paper (August, 2007)

Minnesota Gay Priest Resigns Over Vatican Policy

Posted on December 22, 2005
Posted in Bob Pierson, Homosexuality, Michael Hemmesch, Rome

Collegeville – A priest at St. John’s University said he was resigning his leadership position because of the Vatican’s latest statement that homosexuals should be barred from entering the Roman Catholic priesthood.

New Vatican Rule Said to Bar Gays as New Priests

Posted on September 22, 2005
Posted in Homosexuality, Rome

(New York Times) ROME, Sept. 21 – Homosexuals, even those who are celibate, will be barred from becoming Roman Catholic priests, a church official said Wednesday, under stricter rules soon to be released on one of the most sensitive issues … Continue reading →

Cloistered Passions (Observations from 1980)

Posted on September 6, 1980
Posted in Celibacy, Homosexuality, Intramonastic Misconduct, Opinion, Pedophilia, Residence Halls, St. John's Prep

“The monastic community [in Collegeville] no doubt includes some heterosexual men, along with a great many who must be more or less uneasy about their powerful attraction to other monks or to the boys who surround them at the prep … Continue reading →