The words slide into me like a well-lubricated knife. “It is a sin against nature—don’t skirt the truth, You need to be open about it here, Don’t make me drag it out of you.” I twist uncomfortably in the dark. “Have you considered its link to narcissism?” I have considered; for twenty years I have considered, Read, prayed, felt, thought, wept, fucked; But he is the physician here, the one holding the gold and silver keys, Forceps to separate the… Read more
October 18, 2019
Clapback Comes for the Archbishop, Part Three
October 18, 2019 By Gabriel Blanchard
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Part One; Part Two; Excursus Right then, back to your regularly scheduled program of subverting Catholicism. Archbishop Chaput’s second point of critique of Fr Martin is this: Father Martin has, in the past, suggested that people are born “gay.” … Studies have recently shown that there is no “gay gene,” and homosexuality is the product of a variety of factors. It’s true that many persons with same-sex attraction have experienced it for as long as they can remember, but no… Read more
October 15, 2019
Five Quick Takes
October 15, 2019 By Gabriel Blanchard
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I am writing my very first post from a new laptop! Thanks in part to my lovely Patreon sponsors, I’ve been able to save up enough over the last few months to replace my last one, which was from 2012, if that’s even a real year. This one is much faster, not filthy yet, and has all the keyboard buttons still attached. I could get used to this. + Happy (very tail end of) the memorial of St Teresa of… Read more
October 12, 2019
Forgiveness and Its Discontents, Part Three
October 12, 2019 By Gabriel Blanchard
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Part One; Part Two At an individual level, I’d be willing to bet most (1) white people in this country aren’t contemptuous of other races or ethnicities, at the very least not on a conscious level. But personal prejudice is not the only form racism takes. Systemic patterns that disadvantage people of color and profit whites are also a thing, and also deserve to be dealt with; they are also unjust and damaging (and are thus a threat to peace)…. Read more
October 9, 2019
Forgiveness and Its Discontents, Part Two
October 9, 2019 By Gabriel Blanchard
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Part One The Catholic doctrine of forgiveness is delicately balanced with her doctrine of justice, partly because the latter provides the context for the former. Injustice can be defined as any violation of the way people should treat each other; some injustices are more serious than others, some have worse consequences, some affect a greater number of people, but all are offenses against relationship. And every human person is related to every other human person, at the very least by… Read more
October 5, 2019
Forgiveness and Its Discontents, Part One
October 5, 2019 By Gabriel Blanchard
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I’m hitting pause on my current series, to talk about the furor surrounding Brandt Jean’s stunning declaration of forgiveness for his brother Botham’s murderer, ex-cop Amber Guyger. Some of my readers may be surprised to learn that there is a furor, but it exists for some complicated reasons, and it’s pretty nuanced. Let’s start with the facts. Amber Guyger (who was a Dallas police officer at the time) shot and killed Botham Jean in his apartment; she said she mistook… Read more
September 30, 2019
Clapback Comes for the Archbishop, Excursus: LGBT Language
September 30, 2019 By Gabriel Blanchard
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Part One; Part Two Before I move to His Excellency’s next point, I’d like to linger on the issue of language just a little longer. The dispute over appropriate language—inane though the issue may seem to a lot of people—is conducted with as much heat as anything else in Christian-LGBT discourse. As Fr Martin indicated in the article from America that I linked to in my last, LGBT people are particularly sensitive to matters of language, and not only because… Read more
September 25, 2019
Clapback Comes for the Archbishop, Part Two
September 25, 2019 By Gabriel Blanchard
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Part One And now, let’s pivot to my dissatisfaction with Archbishop Chaput’s column. He lays out several discrete concerns about Fr Martin’s ministry, helpfully numbered. Let’s begin at the beginning. 1. Father Martin suggests that same-sex attracted people and people with gender dysphoria should be labelled according to their attraction and dysphoria … But while the Church does teach that the body is integral to human identity, our sexual appetites do not define who we are. If we are primarily… Read more
September 23, 2019
Clapback Comes for the Archbishop, Part One
September 23, 2019 By Gabriel Blanchard
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Archbishop Charles Chaput’s recent column about Fr James Martin, and the latter’s reply, have been swirling through the online Catholisphere. Unlike their partisans, both are courteous—His Excellency goes out of his way to point out that the personal attacks many people have made against Fr Martin are not only ugly, but fundamentally unchristian, and the latter’s reply receives the former’s criticism with good grace. I had heard some infuriating things about the Archbishop’s column; for instance, I’d been told he… Read more
September 18, 2019
Don’t Leave Me
September 18, 2019 By Gabriel Blanchard
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What a time to be a Catholic. The USCCB, with its usual cultural aplomb and sensitivity to the real concerns on the minds of American Catholics, put out this beauty as the representative image for this past week’s Catechetical Sunday, bearing the legend Stay With Us: Because who doesn’t want a “what if Lisa Frank, but less talent and no energy” picture to really drive home their soggy appeal not to be abandoned by the people who pay for their… Read more
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