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24 Feb, 4 tweets, 2 min read
I would like to thank Duquesne University @duqedu for an absolutely extraordinary welcome this afternoon for my talk for administration, faculty and students on welcoming #LGBTQ people in Catholic colleges. You are doing wonderful work and I want to especially thank... Image
...the students who responded to my talk: Emma Shirey, Mike Murphy and Rosie Fassette. I was so moved by your insights, and also so glad to receive so many great questions from other students and faculty after our conversation....
Some of what we discussed came from this talk, which I had adapted for this afternoon's session.... americamagazine.org/faith/2020/02/…
Thanks again to all my new friends at Duquesne!

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The list of Catholic religious orders, schools and institutions supporting the @TylerClementi statement against #LGBTQ bullying grew again this week:

The School Sisters of Notre Dame, Central Pacific Province; the Ignatian Volunteer Corps; the Dominican Sisters of Sinsinawa... Image
...the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace; the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange; the Dominican Friars, Province of St. Albert the Great, USA; the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, US Province; Christian Brothers University...
...The Dominican Sisters of Peace; the Sisters of St. Dominic of Caldwell, NJ; the Society of the Sacred Heart USC Province; and the Congregation of the Infant Jesus, Rockville Centre, NY.

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27 Jan
Gospel: "Jesus began to teach by the sea," says today's Gospel (Mk 4). In the Parable of the Sower, Jesus speaks of rocky ground, fertile ground and thorny ground. Here is the "Bay of Parables," where by tradition Jesus preached that parable. Why do we think that? Well, first...
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Gospel: Jesus called a group of people who may not have always gotten along. Today he calls Peter and Andrew, two brothers (Mk. 1: 14-20). Do siblings always get along? Next he calls James and John, two more brothers, who work in a wealthier fishing business with their father... Image
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Thread: In Poland, where homophobia is rampant, LGBT people are on trial for "desecrating" a copy of the Black Madonna. But Mary is for everyone, including LGBT people, and there is a long history of portraying her as part of different faith communities...
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She is especially important to communities that have been persecuted or marginalized. For example, Father John Giuliani, who died recently, often portrayed her as a Native American woman, with Native American references and symbols prominent in his paintings....
Mary is often portrayed as a woman of color (which she assuredly was) by the contemporary artist Janet McKenzie.
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"And I say to you, I have also decided to stick with love, for I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems. And I'm going to talk about it everywhere I go. I know it isn't popular to talk about it in some circles today..."
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Gospel: Today Jesus meets Peter for the first time, after being introduced to him by Andrew, Peter's brother (Jn 2). All of them are in the company of John the Baptist, by the Jordan. But in the other Gospels, their first meeting is quite different. In the Synoptic Gospels...
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