Gay chasuble
Multiple leftist media outlets attacked Swedish pastor Håkan Persson, the parish priest of Markaryd, after a recent social media post in which he criticized the new rainbow-colored, LGBT-friendly vestments designed to be the symbol of the progressivism of the Church of Sweden.
In his Facebook send , Persson stated that the rainbow-colored chasuble and stole, designed at the initiative of the Västerås diocese, “will not enter Markaryd’s church as long as I am vicar.”
While the media paints him as acting from “a veiled minority-intolerant agenda” and accuses him of discriminating against the LGBT community in his parish, the priest insists he merely follows the liturgical rules of the church, and his doors remain open to anyone, but not to momentary political trends and sexual advertising.
“In the Church of Sweden, we include liturgical vestments that trails the church year. We actually have rules for that,” Persson explained. Anything other than white, red, green, and purple, depending on the liturgical season, is inconsistent with the Church’s official guidelines, he said.
In stark contrast to the leftist media reports, soc
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INTERVIEWER 1: It’s the 31st of January and we are at the RAMM in Exeter to log a life story interview for the Out and About: Queering the Museum project at RAMM. My name is Jana Funke and I am interviewing Oren today. Appreciate you so much for being here. So we’ve asked everyone involved in this project to look at the RAMM catalogue and choose one argue against from this wide-ranging collection that speaks to you and resonates with you, so to initiate, could you reveal us which argue against you’ve chosen and just describe it to us please?
PARTICIPANT 1: Yes. The object that I’ve chosen out of the collection is a chasuble. It’s for all intents and purposes a very ornate and beautiful and opulent garment worn by priests in the moment where they would move from their ordinary clothes into a benign of sacred or religious ceremony.
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INTERVIEWER 1: Thank you. And why this object? Out of all these thousands of objects, what drew you to this particular object?
PARTICIPANT 1: I think that there’s
The Silence of Sodom: Homosexuality in Modern Catholicism
Mark D. Jordan
University of Chicago Urge , 07/06/2000 - 322 من الصفحات
The past decade has seen homosexual scandals in the Catholic Church becoming ever more visible, and the Vatican's directives on homosexuality becoming ever more forceful, begging the interrogate Mark Jordan tries to answer here: how can the Catholic Church be at once so homophobic and so homoerotic? His analysis is a keen and readable study of the tangled relationship between male homosexuality and contemporary Catholicism.
"[Jordan] has offered glimpses, anecdotal stories, and scholarly observations that are a whole greater than the sum of its parts. . . . If homosexuality is the guest that refuses to leave the table, Jordan has at least shed light on why that is and in the process made the whole issue, including a conflicted Catholic Church, a small more understandable."—Larry B. Stammer, Los Angeles Times
"[Jordan] knows how to show a case, and with apparently effortless clarity he demonstrates the church's double bind and how it affects Vatican rhetoric, the training of priests, and ecclesiastical protectiveness toward an army of close
Why MCC is more than an LGBTQ church
During the Covid 19 crisis, I saw a humorous post on Facebook. Two women were in the kitchen. Helen says to her friend Sue, “Where’s Dave?” Sue replied “He’s out in the garden.” Helen said, “I didn’t see him” to which Sue said, “Dig a little deeper.”
I initiate the post humorous. I’m going to take the words “dig a short-lived deeper” to relate to attending MCC churches. You spot , no two churches are alike. Each church is allowed to be the church their members want it to be. It is in attending a few of our churches and “digging a little deeper” that allows you to see how we are both similar and different.
For example, I always wore a clergy shirt while preaching or making visits to people at the hospital or nursing home. Quite often I also wore beautiful and colorful chasubles while preaching or officiating weddings/funerals. A chasuble is a garment worn over a white preaching robe. However, many pastors wear only a clergy shirt or wear regular lane clothes.
The style of worship is also unique to each particular church. Some churches are “high church” where there is a procession of the cross and the church leaders prior to the start of
I know: it is not to be. Uniformity and conformity in rites and ceremonies has been lost. And many more Anglicans now experience the priest at Holy Communion wearing a chasuble than a surplice.
While the wearing of the chasuble was a product of the tardy 19th century Ritualist movement, the wider acceptance of that vestment and its approval by ecclesiastical power did not occur on the basis of Anglo-papalist eucharistic theology.
The 1906 Inform of the Royal Commission on Ecclesiastical Disciplineprovides a fascinating insight into this process.
The Reportnotes that the wearing of the chasuble as a distinctly liturgical vestment dates to the 7th century, thus predating later innovation in eucharistic practice and theology:
Thus the Eucharistic vestments were adopted some centuries before A.D