Quote of the Day

Don’t listen to people who say that God hates you, rejects you or condemns you, simply for being LGBT. That’s false, and it doesn’t deserve one moment of your attention. Center yourself instead on God’s compassionate love for you and look for signs of it outside and inside.

– James Martin, S.J.
Excerpted from "Spiritual Insights for LGBT Catholics"
America
March 7, 2018

Related Off-site Links:
Have Catholic Theologians Been Too Quiet About Fr. James Martin’s Building a Bridge? – Robert Shine (Bondings 2.0, March 5, 2018).
Catholic-LGBTQ Dialogue: "Catholic Theology Today Has Much Listening to Do" – But Where? When? How? – William D. Lindsey (Bilgrimage, March 5, 2018).
Is the Catholic Church Becoming More or Less Accepting of LGBT People? – Francis DeBernardo (Bondings 2.0, February 19, 2018).
The Bridge-Building Metaphor, the LGBTQ Community, and the Catholic Church: You Want to Build a Bridge to THAT?! – William D. Lindsey (Bilgrimage, February 21, 2018).
Fr. James Martin Responds to Vatican Official’s Critique of New Book on LGBT Issues – Robert Shine (Bondings 2.0, September 7, 2017).

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• Trusting God's Generous Invitation
• Remembering and Reclaiming a Wise, Spacious, and Holy Understanding of Homosexuality
• Same-Sex Desires: "Immanent and Essential Traits Transcending Time and Culture"
• Our Lives as LGBTQI People: "Garments Grown in Love"
• LGBT Catholics Celebrate Being "Wonderfully Made"
• Catholics Make Their Voices Heard on LGBTQ Issues
• Our Catholic "Stonewall Moment"
• Spirituality and the Gay Experience
• Gay People and the Spiritual Life
• The Challenge to Be Ourselves
• The Gifts of Homosexuality
• Sister Teresa Forcades on Queer Theology
• Getting It Right
• The Many Manifestations of God's Loving Embrace
• An Erotic Encounter with the Divine
• Never Say It Is Not God
• Knowing What to Do, Knowing Why to Stay
• Beyond the Hierarchy
• Vessels of the Holy
• The Journal of James Curtis

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