Thursday, October 31, 2013

Hepzibah Responds to My Posting about Ratzinger on "Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons": How to Deal with Homophobia Central?

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Congregation for Doctrine of the Faith, "On the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons" (1986) At his wonderful Hepzibah sit...

Bill Tammeus's Open Letter to Pope Francis about Bishop Finn, and More on St. Paul-Minneapolis and Archbishop Nienstedt

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Bill Tammeus's open letter to Pope Francis at National Catholic Reporter  this week is excellent: he writes to Francis as a brot...

Scary Hallowe'en Reads? Cardinal Ratzinger's "Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons"

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There's an interesting Hallowe'en thread right now at Commonweal , responding to Dominic Preziosi's question to readers ...
Monday, October 28, 2013

Cooking to Save the Planet: Tamar Adler's An Everlasting Meal

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When I blogged several days ago about our method of shopping weekly and cooking most of the vegetables we buy on the day that we sho...

Religious Right Leaders Note Declining Numbers and Conclude, "People Want God but They're Not Happy with Churches"

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Last week, I noted  Kathy Lynn Grossman's recent article which shows that baptism rates are dropping precipitously in churches ...

The Sea Change in Cultural Attitudes Toward Gay Lives: Importance of Telling Gay Stories and Bearing Gay Witness

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Last week at the Huffington Post site, Arianna Huffington announced that the Oprah Winfrey Network would air several programs on 27 Oc...
Saturday, October 26, 2013

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "High Time for Catholic Publications" to Include Women in Leadership Structures

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(One of the good droppings):  Heidi Schlumpf, commenting at National Catholic Reporter  on the lack of women's representation in...