Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Brief Hiatus

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Dear Friends, I apologize to you for being slow to acknowledge your many valuable comments on postings here of late. I've fal...
Monday, July 28, 2014

Richard Rodriguez, Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography: "It Is Because the Church Needs Women That I Depend Upon Women to Protect the Church from Its Impulse to Cleanse Itself of Me"

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Last week, I noted  that in his new book Darling: A Spiritual Autibiography (NY: Viking, 2013), Richard Rodriguez continues a theme ...

In the News: Sixth Mass Extinction of Species Now Underway

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In her review of Elizabeth Kolbert's The Sixth Extinction (NY: Henry Holt, 2014), Louise Rubacky notes that Kolbert's thesis...

Now the Star Tribune: Top Minneapolis Paper Calls on Nienstedt to Resign

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And now the Minneapolis Star Tribune :
Friday, July 25, 2014

Members of Theology Faculty of St. Thomas University, St. Paul: We Need "New Leadership at the Archdiocesan Level, Leadership That Includes Individuals Who Are Neither Perpetrators Nor Enablers of Abuse"

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Brian Roewe reports today that five members of the theology faculty of St. Thomas University in St. Paul, Minnesota — Cara Anthony, ...

Tom Reese on Catholic Bishops' Opposition to Executive Order Forbidding Anti-Gay Discrimination: "It Is Time for the Bishops to Sideline Their Lawyers and Consult with Moral Theologians"

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Father Thomas Reese, SJ , on the U.S. Catholic bishops' bitter and mean-spirited (my words, not his) opposition to President Obam...

In the News at Week's End: Pastoral (?) Leadership (?) in Catholic Church, Faith-Based Anti-Gay Discrimination, Gaza, Immigrant Children, Healthcare, and Theocracies and Women

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Michael Bayly , The Wild Reed: