{"id":10993,"date":"2017-12-14T21:57:21","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T01:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=10993"},"modified":"2017-12-15T10:45:26","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T14:45:26","slug":"eucharist-helps-lonely-desperate-im-catholic-herald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2017\/12\/eucharist-helps-lonely-desperate-im-catholic-herald.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;How the Eucharist Helps the Lonely and the Desperate&#8221;: I&#8217;m in the Catholic Herald"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>running my mouth:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 2015, a blog called\u00a0Spiritual Friendship, which publishes theological and personal reflections of interest to gay people who accept the Christian sexual ethic, interviewed Kelley Cutler about her work with LGBT homeless youth. Cutler said: \u201cOne question I\u2019ve asked most LGBT Catholics I\u2019ve met is, \u2018Why do you stay in the Church?\u2019 Think about it: they could go right down the street to another faith community that has different teachings. So why do they stay? I have been given the same answer by every LGBT Catholic I\u2019ve met: the Eucharist. I don\u2019t get this answer from every Catholic I ask, but I do from the LGBT Catholics. I think this is something people should consider.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicherald.co.uk\/issues\/december-15th-2017\/how-the-eucharist-helps-the-lonely-and-the-desperate\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>running my mouth: In 2015, a blog called\u00a0Spiritual Friendship, which publishes theological and personal reflections of interest to gay people who accept the Christian sexual ethic, interviewed Kelley Cutler about her work with LGBT homeless youth. Cutler said: \u201cOne question I\u2019ve asked most LGBT Catholics I\u2019ve met is, \u2018Why do you stay in the Church?\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":10995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[355,1264,30,360],"class_list":["post-10993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gay-catholic-whatnot","category-mackerel-snapping","tag-christ-the-liberator","tag-gay-catholic-whatnot","tag-mackerel-snapping-2","tag-they-recognized-him-in-the-breaking-of-the-bread"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;How the Eucharist Helps the Lonely and the Desperate&quot;: I&#039;m in the Catholic Herald<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"running my mouth: In 2015, a blog 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