Peter Johnstone, member of Catholics for Renewal Inc., discusses whether legislation is needed to ensure religious freedom. There is vague reporting of the ‘right’ of religious schools to teach faith-based doctrine. This begs the question as to what these schools want to teach that they think is at risk. It seems that this is code for teachings that devalue people of LGBTIQ sexual orientation.
Stephanie Lorenzo is Communications Director of Voices of Faith whose mission is to build a prophetic Catholic Church where women’s voices count, participate and lead on equal footing with men. She founded Project Futures to support victims and survivors of human trafficking in Cambodia, Australia and Nepal. She is a volunteer Board Director of Loreto Normanhurst and The Generations Foundation and lives in Sydney, Australia. Here she talks about this work.
Eric Hodgens, Melbourne retired priest, says the Catholic Church is now in freefall. Vatican II called for adaptation to the modern world. Most of the opportunities for adaptation have been missed. How do we catch the last bus?
Mary E Hunt
At the Global Network of Rainbow Catholics (GNRC) International Forum on July 4, 2019 in Chicago, Mary E Hunt, feminist theologian and co-founder and co-director of the Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual (WATER) spoke about the problems facing the LGBTIQ+ Catholics today. She argues that a new theology of sexuality is the only way to honour the experience of Catholics today. This text is an extract.
Paul Harris, educator and involved in LGBT Catholic ministry, discussed with Archbishop Comensoli the dangers of forced invisibility of LGBT teachers in Catholic schools. His letter to Archbishop Comensoli was published in the last edition of The Swag.
