Cardinal Keith O’Brien

Catholic Church is struggling with serial exposure of its private values more than homosexuality

Mick Fealty on March 5, 2013, 11:35 am

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Fintan O’Toole hits the nail on the head over Keith O’Brien, and the church’s problematic stand on homosexuality (no sniggering Anglicans and etc others, please)… …in the end, the church’s double life in relation to homosexuality is just cruel. Some priests manage maintaining two different personas very well. Some perhaps even take a kind of pleasure in it. But for some, even at the very top of the clerical tree, it is an appalling strain. When the desire to touch …

Gay Marriage: Cardinal lobbies against whilst Church of Ireland opens a debate…

Mick Fealty on March 6, 2012, 9:21 am

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So Cardinal Keith O’Brien thinks gay marriage is grotesque. His church will be lining up to oppose the enactment by HMG to give civil partnership an equal status with traditional marriage between a man and a woman. In the meantime, the Church of Ireland, who’s official position is no different from that of the (Roman) Catholic church are, instead of lobbying the government, planning to have a debate: Canon Ellis said there had been a serious debate within his church …