Showing posts with label Archbishop John Nienstedt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Archbishop John Nienstedt. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 12, 2020

German Catholic Bishops on Dismal Failure of Predecessors in Nazi Period; Anne Barrett Doyle on Anniversary of Vos Estis Lux Mundi

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Writing in The Tablet  yesterday, Christa Pongratz-Lippit reports on an in-depth study the German Catholic bishops recently commissi...
Sunday, October 7, 2018

Mark Shea on What Viganò, Burke, and Bannon's Anti-Francis Gay-Bashing Is About: "This is About the Rich Seizing Control of the Church, not About the Protection of Victims"

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Kavanaugh Has Exposed the Savage Amorality of America's Ruling Class https://t.co/PgdtZykKrw — Mary Aktay (@maryaktay) October 6, 201...
Saturday, September 8, 2018

Latest Viganò Commentary: "Vatican Receives a Letter in *November 2000* Detailing a Mess of Allegations Against McCarrick. Three Months Later, Instead of Sanctions, St. JPII Gives McCarrick a Red Hat"

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The Viganistas have an obvious timing problem. The secret sanctions was the clever solution to bridging the gap, but it may have been too ...
Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Media Begin Filling in Picture of Those Orchestrating Viganò's Attack on Francis: Predictable Players with Predictable Anti-LGBTQ Agenda

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Thanks to @nwinfield , @elizabethjdias , and @lauriegnyt we now know of two of Archbishop Vigano's ghostwriters: Italian journalist @...
Saturday, July 23, 2016

Documents in Settlement of Curtis Wehmeyer Case Reveal Vatican Interference in Investigation of Allegations about Archbishop Nienstedt's Sexual Improprieties

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WHAT HE'S SAYING : Well, there you have it at the top of this posting. Archbishop Nienstedt's full statement in response to...
Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Catholic-Themed News: Nienstedt at Napa, Chaput and Amoris Laetitia, Joe Paterno and What He Knew, Violence of Catholic Teaching about LGBTQ People

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Brother Body can be a real ass sometimes, can't he? I'm dealing with some health things right now, and finding it hard to concent...
Friday, May 6, 2016

Cousin of John Nienstedt Reports That He Told Nienstedt of Abuse by Nienstedt's Priest-Friend, and Nienstedt Did Nothing: The Unholy Trinity of Lies, Secrets, and Silence

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The story told in the video above is one to which a valued reader of this blog alerted me yesterday. The report is from KMSP (Fox News) i...
Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Pathology of Internalized Homophobia in Gay-Bashing Catholic Clerics: "How Strange Their Psyches Must Be As a Result...and Sometimes Dangerous As Well"

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The synchonicity of conversations on the worldwide web never fails to intrigue me — discourse community linking to discourse communit...
Monday, September 21, 2015

As Pope Arrives: "Until Francis Gets the House in Order on the Matter of Sexual Abuse of Clergy, All the Other Pastoral and Charitable Efforts of Our Church Are Like Sandcastles"

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Two simple (but are  they simple?) reminders this morning about the abuse situation in the Catholic church, and the imperative need o...
Monday, June 15, 2015

Nienstedt Resigns: "My Leadership Has Unfortunately Drawn Attention Away from the Good Works of His Church"

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This is news to which to wake up on a Monday morning: the archbishop of St. Paul-Minneapolis, John Nienstedt, and his deputy archbish...
Friday, June 5, 2015

Criminal Charges Filed Against Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis in Abuse Cover-Up

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As Chris has noted in a comment here today, this noontime the Ramsey County, Minnesota, prosecutor's office announced that it has...
Friday, May 22, 2015

Patricia Miller's Takeaway re: Recent Pew Study Showing U.S. Catholic Church in "Demographic Free-Fall," with Notes about Recent Débacle re: LGBT Youth Conference in Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis

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As I noted last week , the most recent Pew Research Center "Religious Landscape" report  on the state of religious affiliat...
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Jennifer Haselberger on Current Status of Nienstedt Investigation: Contextual Information

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This is a footnote to what I posted yesterday about the archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis and its choice to hire a high-powered cr...
Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: Who's Paying for High-Powered Criminal Lawyer Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis Has Hired?

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At Commonweal , Grant Gallicho  reports that as it investigates allegations that its archbishop, John Nienstedt, has behaved improper...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

More News: Updates to Stories about Archbishop Nienstedt, Rev. Frank Schaefer, David Gushee, and LDS Church

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And finally this morning, some odds and ends providing updates on stories we've discussed here in the past: 
Saturday, September 27, 2014

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 ...
Thursday, September 25, 2014

Archbishop Nienstedt, Firing of Gay Catholic Employees, and Upholding Teachings of the Church: Critical Reflection

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Yesterday, I noted that anti-gay culture-warrior archbishop John Nienstedt of St. Paul-Minneapolis forced the resignation of a music...
Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Midweek News Miscellany: Story about Paul Huff and Tom Wojtowick, New Pew Forum Survey, Nienstedt Forces Out Gay Music Minister, Gay Jesuit Quits

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A midweek miscellany of articles, several of them commenting on topics we've discussed here recently:
Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Family Values, Theologians, and Archbishop Nienstedt: A Theological Discussion Pertinent to the Synod on the Family

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I just wrote that  I'm seeing a strong hunger for authentic dialogue expressed in much commentary in Catholic circles about  the ...
Friday, September 5, 2014

National Catholic Reporter's Call for Archbishop Nienstedt to Be Transparent and Accountable: Sauce for Nienstedt's Goose Also Sauce for NCR's Gander, in Censoring Jerry Slevin?

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As Jerry Slevin pointed out  in a posting at his Christian Catholicism site yesterday, in various threads, readers of  National Catholi...