Showing posts with label AIDS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AIDS. Show all posts
Thursday, March 17, 2016

Defensive Responses to Critiques of Hillary's "Misstatement" About Reagans and AIDS: What Do They Portend for Future of Democratic Politics?

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I've been noticing an interesting (yes, that word again) thing lately in comments in my circles of Facebook friends. I'd like...
Thursday, December 3, 2015

Paul Vallely and Patricia Miller on the Pope's Failure in Africa: "How Gays Are Treated Is Fundamental to the Future of the Universal Church"

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I am not by any means the only person giving testimony about how Pope Francis's silence regarding the threat to LGBT lives in Afr...
Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Bob Shine on Pope Francis's Silence About LGBT People in Africa, and How This Silence Colors His Message of Good News

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Bob Shine of New Ways Ministry on Pope Francis's silence about LGBT people in Africa, and how this silence colors his message of...

On World AIDS Day, What Message of Good News Do Catholic Leaders Have for People Affected by HIV — After Pope Francis's Trip to Africa?

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Yesterday was World AIDS Day. What was the official, unambiguous statement of good news offered by the leaders of the Catholic church...
Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Ken Briggs on the Shocking "No Big Deal" Approach of Pope Francis to Questions About Catholic Position on Condom Use and AIDS — The Moral Limits of Pretending That Some People Don't Exist

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As Ken Briggs notes today in National Catholic Reporter , the "no big deal" approach Pope Francis appears to take to some ...
Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Translating the News: Immigrants as Targets, Gays as Targets, Women as Targets, Religion as Vehicle — Some Common Threads in Recent News Stories

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The news is often written in code. The news is a foreign language that calls on us, wherever we are in the world, to translate it. 
Monday, June 2, 2014

A Postscript to "Normal Heart" Discussion: An Entry from My Journal of July 1992, re: the Death of a Longtime Friend from AIDS

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As a postscript to what I posted last week about Larry Kramer's "The Normal Heart" and to the discussion that posting ...
Saturday, May 31, 2014

We Watch "Normal Heart," and Think of Our Recent Marriage and Friends Who Went Before Us

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Steve and I watched "Normal Heart" this past week, and as we did so, how could we not  think about the story it told without...
Saturday, July 6, 2013

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: Mary Ann McGivern Speaks of Brothers' Death from AIDS, Fellow Catholics Pile On

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Sister of Loretto Mary Ann McGivern publishes  a thoughtful (and anguished) statement about how her family's struggle to deal wit...
Friday, August 10, 2012

Birthdays: Mark Doty and My Brother

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Three Lindsey Brothers and Father, 1953, Columbus, Mississippi Today is Mark Doty's birthday.  It also happens to be my brother...
Thursday, July 26, 2012

In Catholic News: Reaction to Lynn Sentence, AIDS, and Scottish Catholic Leaders

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Having a Conversation *In Catholic news today (I'm shoehorning a lot of material into my postings today in anticipation of our ...
Friday, July 20, 2012

In the News as Week Ends: AIDS, Condoms, Moral Norms

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More news commentary I've found worth reading this week: these articles focus on questions about HIV-AIDS, condoms, human rights,...
Thursday, December 1, 2011

Matthew Shepard's Birthday and World AIDS Day: In Remembrance

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Friday, June 18, 2010

Jamaica Kincaid's "My Brother": A Meditation on the Price of Connection

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What I am writing now is not a journal; a journal is a daily account, an immediate account of what occurs during a certain time.  For a lo...
Thursday, July 9, 2009

Gays and Generativity: The Significance of Non-Biological Generativity for the Human Community

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From a journal entry dated September 1990: People argue that homosexuality is abhorrent because non-generative. But generativity clearly oc...
Tuesday, June 30, 2009

The AIDS Crisis and the Church: The Churches' Calling to BE Church

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From journals of September 1990: I've been thinking of an idea I sketched in journals last year about an article on AIDS and the church....
Monday, March 23, 2009

Benedict, Bush, and Condoms in Africa: The Rest of the Story

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There’s a fascinating array of op-ed statements the last several days, re: the pope’s recent statement that condoms not only don't solve...
Friday, March 20, 2009

Condoms Cause AIDS: The Cruel, Twisted "Logic" of Right-Wing Christian Opposition to Condoms

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22 million people have got AIDS now because of the condom campaign. It’s making it worse, not better! I blogged recently about the malefic...
Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Shakin', Rattlin', Rollin': American Catholic Centrists Parse Benedict on Condoms

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Asked on Tuesday if condom use is warranted in Africa where many people on that continent are dying in an ongoing AIDS epidemic, Pope Benedi...
Friday, September 12, 2008

HBCUs and CDC Data about New HIV Infections: Head in Sand

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I’ve blogged here a number of times about how my work in historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) has increased my concern for L...