The post Orthodoxy, Fordhamites, and Homosexuality: My Conversation with Fr. Peter Heers first appeared on Joseph Sciambra ..read more

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“If you weep not now, when will you ever weep?”― Dante Alighieri, Inferno In 1993, I met a Mid-Western transplant who recently moved to the Castro from his conservative Bible-Belt small town. Resembling thousands of others like him, who made the trek to San Francisco in order to find some gay nirvana that The Village People and then The Pet Shops Boys sang about in the disco-anthem “Go West.” Some found it; most didn’t. Especially those who took part in the first mass migration during the 1970s. A decade later, the majority of them were dead from AIDS. Into the early-1990s, we still all feared ..read more

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“The greatest paradox of our life is that while we all instinctively strive for happiness, most of the time we are unhappy and dissatisfied even when no danger threatens us. Philosophy is helpless in satisfactorily clarifying the reason for this paradox. The Christian faith, however, explains that the reason for our dissatisfaction and dark feelings lies within ourselves. It results from our sinfulness – not only from our personal sins but also from our very nature that is marred by the primordial sin. Sinful corruption is the main source of our grief and suffering.” – Bishop Alexander (Milean ..read more