Another Gay Saint - Vatican Goes Against Final Wishes

John Henry Newman http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10794a.htm. One of those gay heroes from our past. Men of quiet dignity that live their lives honestly and with conviction, doing good deeds and great things. Playing the cards they were dealt and making an example of their lives.

The vatican though a bit uneasy about making a saint from someone who's dying wish was to be buried with his lifelong friend and "roommate".

The last line is actually borrowed from their shared tomb. It's as if they are whispering to us from the past.


John Loves Ambrose

I hope at least you carved it on a tree,
That god would not begrudge some bark
For love to proclaim it’s name,
Though lips and deeds could not.

I hope at least fingers touched,
That closeness counted;
There had to have been a kiss
If only briefly on a cheek.

What blessed Seraphim it was
To bring you heaven’s dreams, of flesh,
Of consummation, of love’s embrace
That light of day would never know.

It would only be in death’s keep
That your bodies would share a bed,
For god to decide what lover’s fate
Waited beyond the gate.

Though here on common earth
Those who call themselves his servants
Would seek to rip inconvenient love
From it’s final resting place.

But who can argue with God’s hand
When his love rules even dead flesh
Ashes to ashes dust to dust
Two lovers together as one forever.

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Out of shadows and phantasms into the Truth.