Acknowledgements
John Sackett
For not turning away, even when he didn't understand.
this whole web site into being.
For being a true friend.
David Goodrum
For not making any promises, but always being there.
Stephen Protomartyr
For being my earliest example and inspiration.
- Abraham
- For showing me that it's OK to argue with God.
- Socrates
- For teaching me scepticism combined
- Plato
- For so much wisdom and insight.
- John Evangelist
- For writing so beautifully and profoundly
- Origen
- For demonstrating that open minded
- Athanasius
- For showing me that it's OK to be the
with humility and a devotion to justice.
about Jesus.
theological inquiry isn't the same as heresy.
odd one out.
- Mary Renault
- For testifying to the nobility of homo-gender affectivity.
- C.S. Lewis
- For my earliest theological education.
- Karl Popper
- For showing me that to quest for subjective certainty is to miss the way that leads to objective truth.
- Richard Feynman
- For pointing out that reality has a habit of "kicking back".
- Ayn Rand and Richard Dorking
- For proposing a rational basis for ethics.
- Ludwig Ott
- For putting the faith on record, before the modernists could change it!
- Michael Davies
- For not letting the liberals have it all their
- Francis Selman
- For introducing me to Aquinas.
own way.
- My Mother
- For showing me, and many others,
- George and Carol Hopper
- For hospitality and kindness.
- Balasz Gyorffy
- For giving me back my self-respect.
- Derek Jay
- For showing me how to be a gay Catholic,
- A Catholic Priest
- For telling me that it wasn't wrong to be gay.
- Zak
- For showing me affection exactly how
- Elizabeth Stuart
- For teaching me that traditionalism and
- Patricia Grimer
- For valiantly remaining faithful to the truth.
- Sue Coote
- For dogged determinism in the face of
the love of God.
even though he is an Anglican.
and when I needed it.
radicalism are the same.
hostile authority.
Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre
and Bishop Castro de Mayer
For standing up to be counted.
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For setting an example of uncompromising
love for God, for friends and for truth.
John Boswell
For telling the story that no-one else
wanted to hear.
Paul Hallsal
For compiling the Lesbian and Gay
Catholic Handbook
Bishop Gumbleton
For daring to speak the truth and rock the boat.
Bishop J. Terry Steib
For simple kindness, courtesy and genuine concern.
Rev. W. Thomas Faucher
Who decided not to be "particularly wise"
Deo Gratias!
Rev T. Radcliffe
For speaking out,
even though he's part of the establishment.
Gareth Moore
For pointing out that you can't confess what you
don't think is a sin, and that one non-infallible
statement can't make make another
non-infallible statement infallible.
James Allison
For daring to speak and take the consequences.