Bishop John Stowe speaking at New Ways Ministry’s 2017 Symposium
Posted on 06/05/2023 8:58:28 AM PDT by ebb tide
Bishop John Stowe speaking at New Ways Ministry’s 2017 Symposium
The following are some items that may be of interest:
1) Bishop John Stowe of Lexington released a June 1st message for Pride Month, as he has done previously. This year, however, Stowe recognized the new challenges LGBTQ+ people, particularly those who are transgender and nonbinary, face. In his message, available on Facebook, the bishop, who is a leader on LGBTQ+ inclusion in the U.S., writes:
“As you celebrate the annual Pride festival and other events throughout the month, know that I and many of the faithful of the Catholic Diocese of Lexington will be praying for you and with you at this time. I know that it has been a particularly hard year following the legislative session in the Commonwealth with all its punitive measures against youth identifying as trans[gender]. I also know of the struggles that many of you experience personally and the rejection, meanness, misunderstanding and exclusion that you have too often experienced from communities of sfaith- including our own Catholic community. We all need to work to be more compassionate, understanding, civil, kind and willing to re-discover the universal fraternity that is God’s plan.
“First and foremost, you are children of God. With that comes immense dignity and worth that cannot be taken away. During this time of celebration, I hope that you will draw closer to the God of all creation and experience the all-embracing love manifest in Jesus. If you are of a different faith tradition or no faith tradition at all, you can certainly join us in striving for a more peaceful and fraternal world.”
2) Maxwell Kuzma, a transgender Catholic writer, reflected on how the act of washing feet on Holy Thursday can instruct the church in its treatment of LGBTQ+ people. Kuzma, who is a guest contributor to Bondings 2.0, noted in the National Catholic Reporter that shortly before Holy Week, the U.S. bishops’ conference issued a document against gender-affirming healthcare for trans people. He continued about the act of foot washing, in a reflection worth reading in full:
“As a transgender Catholic living in America in 2023, I wonder what our church could learn if we put this type of humble, messy love into practice, if we were less concerned with status and power dynamics and more interested in meeting people on the margins. Jesus was never someone who cared about social status or about what people would say about him. He was deeply concerned with the dignity of the human person. . .
“To truly celebrate the mystery of Holy Week, we are called to meet people where they are — and transgender people are in the pews. We are at the grocery store, at school, in the home, living out the beautiful mystery of our lives.
“Leveling theological rejections at people who are humbling themselves before God looks nothing like the example of Jesus. Maybe instead, the church can meet in a mutual intimacy of shared vulnerability — like washing each other’s feet.”
3) Yunuen Trujillo, author of LGBTQ Catholics: A Guide for Inclusive Ministry, appeared on a U.S. Catholic podcast to discuss the Bible and issues of gender and sexuality. You can find the conversation between the magazine’s editors, Emily Sanna and Rebecca Bratten Weiss, and Trujillo, who is also a Bondings 2.0 contributor, by clicking here.
4) PinkNews named Sr. Janet Rozzano, RSM, as one of its “29 incredible lesbians who are loud, proud and making the world a better place” for Lesbian Visibility Week in April. Rozzano, who was named to a similar list in Yahoo News in 2021, is a contributor to Love Tenderly: Sacred Stories of Lesbian and Queer Religious, an anthology published by New Ways Ministry, and has contributed to Bondings 2.0.
5) Eve Tushnet, a lesbian Catholic author who has written extensively about celibacy, wrote a review in America of the film Great Freedom, which concerns incarcerated gay people in late 20th century Germany. Of the movie, released in 2022, Tushnet wrote:
“‘Great Freedom’ isn’t a tragedy. It’s more like a joke—it even has a punchline! There are small moments of gallows humor, as when Hans suggests escaping to a place with lighter penalties for sodomy—or, as Leo repeats with incredulity, ‘You want to escape to East Germany?!”’There are small moments of gentleness, when even the camera offers a little sheltering privacy. The film is an exploration of the nature of eros: the many acts, not all of them defensible or intelligible, only some of them sexual, toward which it can propel us; the ways it isn’t freeing, but may be healing; the ways it can be warped but never fully caged.”
Bergoglio will elevate John Stowe to his creepy college of cardinals before ever promoting Strickland.
My nondenominational Christian church is loaded with people that are “ex-catholics”.......I’m beginning to understand why.
Ping
The daughter has been trying to convince me to have me join her in moving to Cynthiana, outside of Lexington. I now have one more point on the "yes" side of the ledger, that I would have absolutely no temptation to become a Catholic under a heretical bishop. If I am going to be a heretic, I would rather be one who follows Scripture, which as LCMS is very easy to do.
Shameful.
John 8:11
And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
It's true that Jesus didn't care about the adulteress's social status.
It's also true that Jesus told her to stop sinning.
The LBGTQ+ crowd forget that last part.
They can love and accept LGBTQer’s but also teach them from Scriptures the errors of their ways. Doing them a great disservice by giving credence to their ungodly views and practices.
Yes, they deliberately forget.
Mine too. As well as folks who left hedonist Protestant churches.
“Pride Month” should be downgraded to “Pride Minute”. More than a minute of that nonsense is too much and I’m being generous with that minute.
It certainly is not love to indulge them and permit them to continue their sinful ways.
With the woman at the well and the woman caught in adultery Jesus shows us to deal with damaged, sinful souls. That is to mercifully but firmly call them out of their sins and to conversion. Not to affirm and confirm them in their sin and brokenness, which is actually cruelty. That when the woman at the well asks for the living water He immediately brings up her marital situation shows you His priority in dealing with the real barrier in sinful souls.
Did you know that Bishop Stowe is President of Pax Christi? That explains a lot.
Bishop Stowe was the worst offender in slandering Nick Sandmann at the March for Life in Washington, DC, a few years ago.
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