In an interview on BBC Radio Ulster’s ‘Sunday Sequence’ programme on Sunday 18th May, the Bishop of Cork, Dr. Paul Colton, voiced his support for the introduction of civil marriage for same-sex couples. Dr. Colton is the first Church of Ireland bishop to publicly support Equal Marriage. The BBC online report can be read here: […]
Speech of the Right Rev. Dr Paul Colton, Bishop of Cork, as Guest of Honour at Cork LGBT awareness week, 12th May 2014
13 May 2014
I am deeply conscious of how generously gracious and open your invitation to me, a Church leader, is in including me today as your Guest of Honour. Not gracious in the sense of courteous and kind, but more in the religious sense of grace – your invitation to me is undeserved; it is an unmerited […]
Synod Hears Interim Report of Committee on Human Sexuality in the Context of Christian Belief
12 May 2014
The interim report of the Select Committee on Human Sexuality in the Context of Christian Belief was received at Synod. Dean John Mann (Connor) proposed the report. He outlined the approach being taken by the committee and said that “the subject matter itself is large enough, without the additional complication of needing […]
Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch Dublin Talk, 9th May, 2014
27 April 2014
Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of Church History at Oxford University spoke in Dublin on Friday 9th May about Faith and Sexuality. Professor MacCulloch’s ‘History of Christianity’ was made into a BBC TV series. He was ordained a deacon in the Church of England and is an openly gay man. The event took the form of a […]
Argentine leader becomes godmother for gay couple’s child
7 April 2014
Argentina’s leader, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, has become godmother to the child of a lesbian couple who was baptised in a Catholic church. http://tiny.cc/glqydx
Gay Clergy – can we agree to disagree agreeably?
7 April 2014
Presentation to C of I Bishops’Conference on Sexuality in the Context of Christian Belief by Canon Ginnie Kennerley, March 2012 I’m very pleased and a little nervous to be here with you today with The Revd Barry Forde, and both of us are agreed that we are here in pursuit of mutual understanding, not […]
‘Imprisoned by the fears and prejudices of others’ by Gordon Linney
5 April 2014
Thinking Anew, Irish Times, 22nd March, Gordon Linney – It’s quite a distance from New York to Sychar, a city that once stood in what we know today as the West Bank that tragic land ruled by fear and patrolled by Israeli soldiers. In the time of Jesus it was called Samaria. In […]
‘Love is the Great Endeavour’, a talk by Padraig O’Tuama to the Cashel, Connor and Kilmore Tripartite conference, 29th March 2014
1 April 2014
Here is a link to Padraig O’Tuama’s blog, and via the blog, to the text of the powerful and poignant talk given by Padraig at the Cashel, Connor and Kilmore tripartite Diocesan conference on 29th March 2014: http://tinyurl.com/qg64mms
Religious Conservatives Are the New Minority, But They’re Not Victims
1 April 2014
Right Revd Gene Robinson comments in The Daily Beast on the fact that religious conservatives are now in the minority: http://tiny.cc/d3endx
CAI Chair’s statement on Equal marriage in England and Wales, 29th March 2014
30 March 2014
As Chair of our Church of Ireland group, Changing Attitude Ireland, I welcome the extension of civil marriage to same sex couples in England and Wales from 29th March 2014. In particular we extend our congratulations to our fellow Anglicans in England and Wales on their civil marriages, with Scotland to soon follow. We hope […]
