Eve Tushnet

@evetushnet

Author of Amends (a novel), and Gay and Catholic (not a novel). Hobbies include sin, confession, and ecstasy. eve_tushnet@yahoo.com .

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Joined November 2010

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  1. 18 hours ago

    From paintings to newsprint to the 24-hour news cycle to Twitter, more and more immediate, until you’re flooded with humanity and you turn against all of it, all the way back down to the paintings

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  3. 20 hours ago

    OK it is from a wire service (Religion News Service) which definitely changes things. I did not notice, my apologies.

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  4. 20 hours ago

    sorry, decided to do this separate from the thread below: Last but, unfortunately, probably not least, I note that our nation's Jesuit magazine now uses "marriage equality." sure do hope this isn't house style.

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  5. 20 hours ago
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  6. 20 hours ago

    That's all I've got for now. If you're into this stuff check out Alan Bray's THE FRIEND, also this & this, for the immense power of the cultural context and uh, my book

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  7. 20 hours ago

    In both cases there really is a Catholic way to live out your love. They are different--you lose & gain diff things w/marriage or w/devoted friendship. But if we chase quasi-gay marriage we'll never find the diverse paths of love the Church actually offers Her gay members.

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  8. 20 hours ago

    In terms of pastoral care, I'd ask how cohabiting straight couples w/no plans to move toward marriage are treated. I hope it's obvious that the indiv.s could be blessed, and their children etc. I sort of think blessing their relationship is dubious but idk, maybe I'm wrong.

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  9. 20 hours ago

    In general, encouraging Catholics to ask the Church for "as much like the world as possible" seems like a wrong turn.

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  10. 20 hours ago

    What it wasn't, was "as much gay marriage as possible, under the circumstances." Encouraging people to seek that, instead of seeking forms of love more deeply guided by Scripture & history, seems like a huge mistake.

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  11. 20 hours ago

    It was sometimes analogized to brotherhood, sometimes to both marriage and brotherhood; differed from both but was as lovely & publicly-recognized as either.

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  12. 20 hours ago

    It differed from marriage in many ways. The promises were in some ways more stringent (you often agreed to share home & goods/wealth, it lasted after death due to prayer obligations if you survived your friend). It wasn't sexual (obvs) & you could have both a spouse and a friend.

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  13. 20 hours ago

    ok a series of initial thoughts, may write better-considered stuff later, but: There's a Catholic history, already, of honored same-sex relationships, promises made before God. It's called friendship & it used to look much more beautiful than it does today

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    Jan 28
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    The final for Suffering should be having to listen to other students talk about Happiness for 2 hours.

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  15. Jan 28

    And yet the class on Suffering is a TA-taught seminar in poli sci, which meets in the smallest classroom in the basement of WLH

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    Jan 27

    In Chile, pregnant women silently gave voice to the voiceless with “loudhailers” to amplify the sound of the ❤️s beating inside them. One participant said, "Abortion activists lost all words. They watched in silence: The voice of those hearts was an unanswerable question."

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    Jan 28

    Is this: a) A crime scene. b) A Turner Prize entry. c) Sea bass nailed to a floorboard at James Martin’s Chewton Glen restaurant. (Pic: )

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  19. Jan 28

    I read THE IMPERFECTIONISTS, a novel about an English-language newspaper in Rome

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    I actually can't get over the name of this knock off orange julius chain

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