Comments on: Were there queens in Byzantium? https://orthodoxandgay.com/were-there-queens-in-byzantium Orthodox and gay Tue, 17 Dec 2013 00:52:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Three Young Men in the Burning Fiery Furnace: Dec 17thQueering the Church | Queering the Church https://orthodoxandgay.com/were-there-queens-in-byzantium#comment-33194 Tue, 17 Dec 2013 00:52:28 +0000 http://www.orthodoxandgay.com/?p=1114#comment-33194 […] Were there Queens in Byzantium? (orthodoxandgay.com) […]

]]> By: andre https://orthodoxandgay.com/were-there-queens-in-byzantium#comment-33176 Mon, 30 Sep 2013 00:22:55 +0000 http://www.orthodoxandgay.com/?p=1114#comment-33176 In reply to Noel Warren.

Noel,
Thank you for your comment. At this point any positive statement or movement is to be greeted with great joy in my opinion. The Holy Spirit some times moves slowly. I am curious as to where you go the statistics on the number of gay and sexually active gay clergy in the US. The numbers might be accurate and I am not questioning them, I just wonder if there was a survey that I might have missed.
I wish you well. Stay in touch,
Andriy

]]> By: Noel Warren https://orthodoxandgay.com/were-there-queens-in-byzantium#comment-33175 Mon, 23 Sep 2013 09:50:18 +0000 http://www.orthodoxandgay.com/?p=1114#comment-33175 The comments of Pope Francis are encouraging. Hopefully he will translate it into some action. Unfortunately do not expect anything soon. For the past 30 years Popes Jean Paul and Benedict have appointed conservative bishops and cardinals. As well as the gay issue ,his other challenges are allowing the clergy to marry, approving contraception and approving the remarriage of divorced persons. He has to come to terms with the fact that studies in the USA now estimate that up to 70% of the clergy there are gay and over 50% of priests are not celibate. Most Catholics have sex before marriage and use contraceptives, and parish priests happily offer communion to remarried divorced persons. Regular mass attendance and financial giving is collapsing in the US. The US used to be the largest sorce of money for the Vatican.I wish him luck.

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