Andy

Gay by birth, called to ordination by God & fabulous by choice! :)
RTs & Follows ≠ Endorsement.
Other half to Mike.
#LGBT #Equality #MarriageEquality #NoH8

[Robert Thompson (he/him) @Rgt71Robert]

This is a really important just read article from Michelle Burns.

Reflecting on her experience as a safeguarding advisor @dioceseoflondon she points out how safeguarding policy is used by senior staff to police the personal relationships of clergy and that this is varied by significant degree in relation to sexuality.

Michelle highlights how deeply this affects queer clergy in particular, whose lives are often brought under particular scrutiny. She further highlights the extraordinary disjunction between now much resource we spend on policing consensual sex between adults and how little on governance failures in safeguarding….

For my part I have been becoming more convinced that a Church that can impose lifetime sanctions for consensual sex between adults, but cannot identify meaningful accountability when safeguarding systems cause profound harm, has a serious moral problem and has lost sight of the Jesus presented in the gospels.

Five years after Alan Griffin’s death, many still ask where responsibility lies……and why consensual sex, even if outside the teaching is the Church, leads to lifetime bans, but governance failures, which lead to a death have no consequences at all.

The Church has become highly skilled at scrutinising the powerless. It remains much less confident at holding power to account.That is not justice. And it is not safeguarding.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

No nation, no society, and no international order can call itself just and humane if it measures its success solely by power or prosperity while neglecting those who live at the margins. Indeed, Christ’s love for the least and the forgotten compels us to reject every form of selfishness that leaves the poor and the vulnerable invisible.

[Ekklesia Network @Ekklesia_co_uk]

Yet millions still cannot see who and what he is — that is the sickness.

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

🚨BREAKING -- The Gaza Tribunal has published its final report.

It calls on Britain to end all military co-operation with Israel, impose economic sanctions, and investigate British citizens who participated in Israel's war crimes.
👉https://t.co/vtEeSqC0IC

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Professor John Mearsheimer:

“From 1971 to 2021, the U.S. murdered 38 million people.”

“38 million.”

And this is the same U.S. that now wants to “liberate” Iran.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Allowing British bases to be used in an illegal war of aggression is a catastrophic and historic mistake.

Britain has been dragged into another war because our Prime Minister would rather appease Donald Trump than stand up for international law.

War is not a game. This shameful decision makes Britain complicit in the devastating consequences ahead - and jeopardises the safety of us all.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Another day, another unspeakable act of cruelty.

There will be no consequences. Instead, our government will keep providing military and economic support, granting endless impunity for Israel's crimes.

What utter inhumanity. We will not rest until Palestine is free.

[State of Palestine @Palestine_UN]

More than 100 States and international organizations have joined the statement condemning Israel’s unilateral measures and rejecting annexation.

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[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

"To heal our blindness, the Lord chooses to reveal himself in each human being, who reflect his true image, according to a plan of love begun at the creation of the world. As long as the night of error obscures this providential truth, then 'there is no room for others either, for children, for the poor, for the stranger' (Benedict XVI, Dec. 24, 2012).

"These words of Pope Benedict XVI remain a timely reminder that on earth, there is no room for God if there is no room for the human person. To refuse one is to refuse the other. Yet where there is room for the human person, there is room for God."

Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex: Christmas Eve homily, Dec. 24, 2025.

Image: Christ in the Rubble, by @KLICONS

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

🇷🇺: Illegally annexes

🇮🇱: Changes the map

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

BREAKING: A new UN report finds that Israel’s assault on Gaza - with the destruction of health care, education, infrastructure, even the banking system - has erased 69 years of human development, marking the worst economic collapse ever recorded.
This is not war: it is genocide.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

What is the point of these posts?

She refuses to name the state responsible for blocking the aid - Israel.

That shows she is refusing to put any public pressure on the UK's ally, Israel, as it continues to deprive the Palestinian people of food and life's essentials.

[Howard Beckett @BeckettUnite]

These words from Francesca Albanese:

‘I am not here to discuss what two indicted war criminals have to say’

‘This is genocide’
‘It’s not for debate’
‘We failed to prevent a genocide’

The Hague for Netanyahu 🇮🇱, Trump 🇺🇸 & Starmer 🇬🇧

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

When I was first elected, evidence showed it would take 193 years to bring London's air pollution within legal limits.

Due to our policies, we've done it in 9.

In Brazil this week, we showed that cities are giving the world reason to hope when tackling the climate emergency.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Ceasefire, Israeli style: Gaza bombed, Palestinians killed in the West Bank, more land taken in both.

The int’l community dares call it “peace.”

To those who’ve recently recognised the State of Palestine: you see, recognition means nothing if you do not protect it.

[Bob Vylan @BobbyVylan]

They thought they were going to get a dumb angry punk ranting. Instead they got articulate and considered responses to each question with facts to back it up when needed. Their hope to further vilify me couldn’t run, so they target Louis to make an example for sitting with me.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

[Andy @vicaringroo]

"Winded After the Death of LLF" by the Very Revd David Monteith, Dean of Canterbury. https://t.co/vGE0w5p5DS

[Andy @vicaringroo]

Church of Norway says sorry to LGBTQ+ people for ‘shame, great harm and pain’ | LGBTQ+ rights | The Guardian https://t.co/SHJOb1R064

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

The British spy plane that has been gathering intelligence over Gaza for the Israeli military for 22 months has not turned on its transponder since ceasefire took effect

It needs to be impounded by the ICC before it flies back to the US. Then UK ministers need to be arrested