Friday, July 2, 2010

New York Times Coverage of What Benedict Knew When: Commentary from the Community of Survivors of Clerical Sexual Abuse

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Another late-in-the-day posting, and another piece commenting on the New York Times article to which I linked early today.  The article t...

Tom Roberts on the New York Times Coverage of the Abuse Crisis: The Misplaced Papal Priorities of John Paul and Benedict

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I realize I'm being exceptionally chatty today, but it's hard not to be right now, with one significant article after another comi...

Ireland on Verge of Enacting Same-Sex Civil Unions: Catholic Nations Continue to Lead in Human Rights Movements for LGBT Persons

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Back in 1997, when Steve and I were still living in the Charlotte, North Carolina, region after having been fired by Belmont Abbey College...

Benedict, a Citizen of Sodom in Good Standing for 40 Years: More News Coverage about What Benedict Could Have Done When

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I noted a few days ago that the mainstreaming of truth-telling news coverage about the scandal caused by the cover-up of clerical sexual a...
Thursday, July 1, 2010

Why Catholics Can't Sing: Benedict's Retrieval of "Old" Liturgy as a "New" Liturgical Movement

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At  National Catholic Reporter , John Allen has just published an excerpt from Joseph Ratzinger’s (now Pope Benedict) 1997 memoirs entitl...

On the Gulf's Destruction by Oil, Science Experiments, and Toxic Rain

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Oil is dangerous.  Oil is toxic. These are fundamental scientific facts that I refuse to put out of my head, even as the governor of Miss...
Wednesday, June 30, 2010

For a Little Levity: Tea Party Jesus

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For a little levity as a hot summer day ends (levity with a nice pinch of acerbity in it): don't miss this Huffington Post article ab...