{"id":1058,"date":"2005-04-20T17:42:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-20T16:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/20\/press-about-pope\/"},"modified":"2015-06-19T00:25:30","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T23:25:30","slug":"press-about-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/20\/press-about-pope\/","title":{"rendered":"Press about Pope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2005\/04\/20\/MNG24CBSIJ1.DTL\">Many gay Catholics disappointed with cardinals&#8217; choice for pope, seeing Ratzinger as church&#8217;s most outspoken foe of equal rights<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Talking about how the gay catholic group Dignity was effected by the 1986 &#8220;Letter to the Bishops on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons.&#8221;  The Chronicle says that &#8220;Local chapters of DignityUSA used to meet on church property, but after members publicly rejected the Vatican&#8217;s 1986 letter, they were no longer welcome, said Sam Sinnett, the national president.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe letter to the bishops was released in English.  Not latin or any other language.  It&#8217;s extremely unusual for Vatican texts to be released in English.  Since the letter warns against letting gay people talk to each other, it was clearly aimed directly at Dignity.  It&#8217;s understandable why they would want to be perceived as having agency, but they would have been banned from catholic churches no matter what.  Catholic churches are only for opposite-sex married people and celibate people.  Everyone else should leave.  So I did.<br \/>\nYou know what the word &#8220;catholic&#8221; means?  Universal.<br \/>\nTags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Gay\" rel=\"tag\">Gay<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Catholic\" rel=\"tag\">Catholic<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Dignity\" rel=\"tag\">Dignity<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Pope\" rel=\"tag\">Pope<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Celesteh\" rel=\"tag\">Celesteh<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many gay Catholics disappointed with cardinals&#8217; choice for pope, seeing Ratzinger as church&#8217;s most outspoken foe of equal rights Talking about how the gay catholic group Dignity was effected by the 1986 &#8220;Letter to the Bishops on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons.&#8221; The Chronicle says that &#8220;Local chapters of DignityUSA used to meet on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/20\/press-about-pope\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Press about Pope<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3307,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions\/3307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}