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Thursday, September 12, 2013

Reblog: Eve Tushnet

I just read this excellent piece by Eve Tushnet, one of my favorite queer Catholics. (After years of trying, I still haven't been able to come up with a satisfying portmanteau of gay/queer/etc. with Christian/Catholic/etc., it's very frustrating.) Here on her Patheos blog, she states quite neatly and succinctly certain of the problems that plague Catholic-queer dialogue, and have done for decades. The whole (short) piece is good, but I think the gem of it is the sentence, "Surrender and penitence are realistic whereas success is not."

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I believe the word you're looking forSeptember 12, 2013 at 6:55 PM
is 'quatholic' :-P
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AnonymousSeptember 13, 2013 at 10:55 AM
Haha, quatholic!
Re: Eve's commentary. So useful and spot on. Thanks (again!) Gabriel.

Lili
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