“Everyone who saw this, grumbled” (Luke 19:7)
At the Quest annual conference “A Time to Build”, one of the most useful insights for me came at...
Tag: Homophobia
Religion and Homophobia: VIDEO
Listen to this to this reflection by the Jesuit Institute (South Africa), released for the anniversary of the Orlando...
Quest Partners With Stonewall to Counter Bullying in Catholic Schools
Catholic teaching is clear, on the importance of opposition to homophobia, in any form: It is deplorable that homosexual...
Should Jewish Schools be forced to be inclusive?
From Quest Bulletin 77 (Lent, 2017), a question about Jewish schools – with relevance to all other faith schools,...
English Bishops Oppose Homophobic Bullying
At Bondings 2.0, Francis DeBernardo has reported on a new manual produced for the English bishops on combating homophobia...
Homophobia Kills: Catholic Schools Must Counter It.
There is abundant evidence that homophobia kills, directly (as in hate crime murders) and indirectly (as in driving the...
The Catholic Obligation to Protect and Support LGBT Pupils
This afternoon, I was up in London, talking to the staff of St Bonaventure’s Catholic secondary school about “The...
Catholic Teaching and Homophobia
Under a recently announced Department of Education program to combat homophobic bullying in schools, Stonewall has received funding for...
Religious Homophobia: How Should Quest Respond?
In the days immediately after the news broke of the Orlando gay nightclub massacre, I noted at Queering the...
Orlando: Religion and Homophobia
Consider the facts: The killer in Orlando was a Muslim, and his target was gay men. It’s been reported...