Monday, May 4, 2015

A Reader Writes: Chris Morley on Forthcoming Marriage Referendum in Ireland and Response of Catholic Hierarchy

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In a comment here this weekend , Chris Morley has kindly posted a report about the forthcoming referendum on marriage equality in Ireland...
Friday, May 1, 2015

More Things I'm Reading at Week's End: Baltimore, Racism, White Privilege, Recognizing African-American Contributions to American Culture

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More stuff I'm reading as this week ends — these resources are about what's happening right now in Baltimore, about the need of...

Things I'm Reading at Week's End: Marriage, Bible, Catholics, Women's Rights, Recovering from Religious Trauma, Pope Francis and Women

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Things I'm reading as this week ends — these items all connected in that they talk about issues of religion in the public square:
Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Peter Isely on the Resignation of Bishop Finn, Abuse Survivors, and Persephone's Pomegranate Seed

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A valuable piece of commentary from Peter Isely of SNAP Wisconsin, in his Facebook feed recently , about the resignation of Bishop Ro...

Why Antonin Scalia Found the Outburst of a Nutcase Shouting about Hell and Abomination at Yesterday's Supreme Court Hearing "Refreshing"

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In his commentary in the New Yorker today on the arguments in yesterday's  Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court hearing about same...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015

A Lull in Conversation

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From one side, I have people throwing rocks at me and accusing me of being unfair to poor Bishop Finn and to the Catholic clergy in general...

Baltimore Burns: Limits of Rhetoric of Non-Violence in Face of Systemic Violence Practiced by Powerful vs. Vulnerable

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Two takes this morning on what's happening in Baltimore that I find illuminating: