Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: Contraception? Open to Discussion! Homosexuality? Closed Discussion! Gays Are Welcome to Confess Their Sins

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Here's an interesting set of comments at Catholic blog sites recently, for your edification:
Sunday, September 28, 2014

The Danger of the Single Story (with Implications for American Catholic Experience)

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Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie discusses "the danger of the single story":
Saturday, September 27, 2014

Quote for Day: The Clear, Publicly Stated Goal of Christian Right's "Religious Freedom" Crusade — Taking Control of Senate

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Frederick Clarkson on the clear and publicly stated goal of the Christian right's "Values Voter" Summit with its claim...

Gay Music Director of Parish Who Marries? Scandal; Priests Who Engage in Sexual Improprieties Sitting on Marriage Tribunals? Not So Much

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How's this for news? A headline in yesterday's Star Tribune  (Minneapolis) reads, "Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis ...
Friday, September 26, 2014

More Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "This 'Religious Liberty' Fiction of the Hierarchs Is a Thinly Veiled Political Gambit"

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And, in contrast to the previous posting, this is one of the good  birdcage droppings — the non-stinky ones: at the Commonweal blog,...

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "Shocker — LGBT Is Incompatible with Being Catholic"

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This is one of the stinky sort: someone calling himself  3DeadInChi-cah-goh logs into the National Catholic Reporter  thread discuss...

End-of-Week Commentary on Growing Gap Between Super-Rich Elite and Everyone Else: Erosion of Democratic Values, Democratic Societies

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More end-of-week tidbits: I'll leave it to you to spot the common theme of this batch.