More on Huffington Post Crackdown on Toxic Discourse, and More on Challenge for Administrators of Catholic Blogs

As I reported several days ago, Huffington Post is implementing a new plan to require anyone leaving comments at the HuffPo site to register in a way that makes the identify of all commenters visible to the moderators of the HuffPo commenting threads. The new policy will not require commenters to post under their own names in discussion threads. But it will require them to disclose their identity to HuffPo itself as they apply for commenting privileges.

Australian PM Debates Homosexuality with an Australian Pastor: "What Is the Fundamental Principle of the New Testament?"

Professor William J. Dohar on Why No U.S. Bishops Stood by Pope Francis When He Asked, "Who Am I to Judge?

William J. Dohar

And it's not only Professor Charles J. Reid who's speaking out about the Catholic church's treatment of gay folks: at Religion Dispatches, another professor, William J. Dohar of Santa Clara University's religious studies department, notes that, in making his remark following World Youth Day about not judging gays, Pope Francis made trouble for bishops. He made trouble for bishops like His Eminence Timothy Cardinal Dolan, who felt compelled to head to the media and inform them that there was nothing in the least new about what the pope said: nothing new here, just move on.

Professor Charles Reid to U.S. Catholic Institutions on Labor Day: "Stop Firing Gays and Gay-Rights Supporters"

Charles J. Reid

For Labor Day, here was University of St. Thomas Professor of Law Charles J. Reid's recommendation to Catholic institutions, especially Catholic schools: 

Labor Day: Reflections on Work and Labor from All Over the Place

Comments from all over the place that have caught the eye of my magpie mind as I read over the years, on the themes of labor and of work (you'll find one or both words in each excerpt below): a very happy Labor Day to all U.S. readers, and a happy day to everyone reading this blog from anywhere around the world.

Kiva, Strathmore University, and Opus Dei: The Rest of the Story (Up to the Present)

So here's an update about what has been happening in the discussion of the choice of Kiva, a charitable non-profit that claims to support gay rights, to partner with an Opus Dei university in Kenya, about which I've blogged recently (and here): as the first link states, Tony Adams and Beverly Woods have told this story to wide audiences beyond the discussion boards of several lending groups at Kiva itself, where it had already begun receiving much attention.*

Footnote to Discussion of Bottum's Essay on Gay Marriage and the Re-Enchantment of Culture: The Addition of Calah Alexander's Voice

A footnote to my discussion yesterday of Matthew Boudway's round-up of conservative commentary about Joseph Bottum's Commonweal essay on Catholics and marriage equality: