Tatchell's having another one of his anti-Church rants. He's claiming that the reason Cardinal Newman is being exhumed is to remove all traces of a gay relationship with Ambrose St John. Now we have no proof either way about the relationship between the two men and noone would argue that the Vatican is the greatest proponent of gay rights. But Tatchell seems unable to follow his own argument to it's logical conclusion: If that Vatican really thought there was a gay (in the modern sense) relationship between these two Victorians, would there be plans to canonise Newman at all?Monday, 25 August 2008
Tatchell's no lover of Newman
Tatchell's having another one of his anti-Church rants. He's claiming that the reason Cardinal Newman is being exhumed is to remove all traces of a gay relationship with Ambrose St John. Now we have no proof either way about the relationship between the two men and noone would argue that the Vatican is the greatest proponent of gay rights. But Tatchell seems unable to follow his own argument to it's logical conclusion: If that Vatican really thought there was a gay (in the modern sense) relationship between these two Victorians, would there be plans to canonise Newman at all?
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are they looking for a stiff?
I have to say, this knock at the utterly innocent family affection of the Oratorian fathers and the unquestionably chaste love of the Cardinal for all his sons and brothers - they called him Il Babbo- made me about as sad as anything has in these past 8 years.
The Cardinal, St John and their community at Birmingham were a wonderful example of what the church calls the spirituality of the Eucharist, manifested in openness, affection, understanding and forgiveness......
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