Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Eduardo Moisés Peñalver on Latest Firing of Gay Catholic Teacher, Mark Zmuda: Continuing Inconsistency in Treatment of Straight and Gay Employees of Catholic Institutions

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I appreciate the work that Eduardo Moisés Peñalver has been doing at the Commonweal  website to invite Catholics of the comfortable ce...

Novelist Sue Monk Kidd on Empathy and Seeing World from Bottom Up: Echoes of Pope Francis on Center and Peripheries

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Pope Francis has stated  (pdf file),

Mary Hunt on What Worries Her about Francis: "Substantive Structural and Doctrinal Issues Do Not Evaporate Just Because the Pope Does Not Wear Prada"

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I n a new essay at Religion Dispatches , theologian Mary Hunt discusses three puzzles that she's trying to make sense of as she l...
Monday, January 6, 2014

National Catholic Reporter Suspends Comments After Weekend of "Vile and Demeaning" Discourse in Some Threads

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A brief footnote to my posting last Friday about the "food for worms" response to a eulogy of Father Bob Nugent of New W...

Rebecca Solnit on the Arc of Justice and the Long Run: "Everyone Has a Genealogy"

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Rebecca Solnit's new essay at The Nation about the arc of justice and the long run is illuminating. She writes, 

Pope Francis and the Clerical System: Jerry Slevin on Lay Catholics and Making a Mess, Colleen Baker on Seeing from the Margins and Interpersonal Relationships

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Yesterday, I asked about Pope Francis and his reform of the Catholic church: "Will he continue the disastrous decision of his t...
Sunday, January 5, 2014

Another Prediction for 2014: Talk of the Dying of Catholicism Even as Lay-Led Catholic Movements Flourish

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Another prediction I'd be willing to go out onto a limb and make as the new year begins: we will be hearing more in this year abo...