By Stanislaus Alla New Delhi, June 28, 2022: Since the news broke on the June 14 election of a German Franciscan priest, a self-declared gay, as a provincial, some Indian Catholics began to discuss gay priests and the morality around the subject of homosexuality. This article strives to help theContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, June 23, 2022: When we were young, being gay meant that we had the joyous abandonment of a child, an attribute that St Paul gives to being children of God (cf Rom 8:21). Today, being gay is understood as a man having a sexual relationship with anotherContinue Reading
By Stanislaus Alla New Delhi, June 16, 2022: Among the Religious, elections or appointments of provincial superiors or even superiors general do not easily make global news but recently the election of a 51-year-old Franciscan priest as a provincial in Germany made headlines simply because he is a self-declared gay.Continue Reading
Denver Newsroom, Jun 15, 2022: The 300-member Franciscan province of Saint Elisabeth in Germany has elected as its new superior Father Markus Fuhrmann, who a few weeks ago publicly came out as homosexual. In an interview with MK-Online, the official news website of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, FuhrmannContinue Reading
A senior Vatican priest, stripped of his post after admitting being in a gay relationship, has launched a scathing attack on the Roman Catholic Church. In a letter to Pope Francis this month, Krzysztof Charamsa accused the Church of making the lives of millions of gay Catholics globally “a hell”.Continue Reading