Showing posts with label Austen Ivereigh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Austen Ivereigh. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Crux on Cardinal McCarrick's "Sexually Deviant Behavior": U.S. Catholic Church Continues to Be Unsafe for LGBTQ People

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I went to bed last night more than a little troubled by something Crux  reporter Christopher White states in his report on a presentatio...
Monday, September 17, 2018

Once Again: Catholic Journalists Pushing Back Vs. Viganò's False Claims Are Not Pushing Back Vs. His Homophobia — See Austen Ivereigh's Recent Tweet re: Mary Hunt

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In my last posting , I shared a Twitter conversation I had several days ago with Catholic Democrats. It was about his claim that ther...
Monday, April 4, 2016

With Knights of Columbus Funding and Strong Connections to Well-Heeled Right-Wing Catholic Elite Groups, Crux Promises No Good New for LGBTQ Catholics

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Last week, I commented on a recent statement by Kaya Oakes at Religion Dispatches raising critical questions about the choice of Jo...
Sunday, February 9, 2014

Taking A Close Look at the "Church Teaching" That Vatican Media Apologists Claim U.N. Attacks: There's Their World, and Then There's the Real World

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For Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP),  David Clohessy responds to Austen Ivereigh's claim that the U.N. Comm...
Thursday, February 6, 2014

Times Editorial on U.N. and Vatican, Plus Vatican Apologists Begin Their Spin: Ten Critical Questions

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An editorial in todays'  New York Times responds to the U.N. report on the Vatican’s handling of the abuse crisis in the Catholi...
Saturday, March 10, 2012

Catholic v. Catholic: Marriage Equality Debate (and Battles) Continue

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And on the more ignorance, less bliss front (I'm piggybacking here on what I just posted about Krugman's latest): readers wil...
Friday, November 18, 2011

Update on Catholic Voices Discussion of Gay Marriage: Gays Not Welcome

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And speaking of the common good (piggybacking here on what I just posted about Michael Sean Winters's USCCB report for Catholics in...
Thursday, November 17, 2011

Terry Weldon on Catholic Voices Group and "the" Catholic Position on Marriage Equality

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As I write about the U.S. Catholic bishops' crusade to protect "religious freedom" (I'm referring to what I've ...
Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Austen Ivereigh on Dismantling of Welfare State as Cause of London Riots: "Hard to Know"

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It's interesting to read Austen Ivereigh's latest at the America blog--this posting is on the London riots--in tandem with the pie...
Friday, May 6, 2011

Mary Hunt on Royal Wedding: Theologically, "Stabilizing for the Status Quo"

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As with everything she writes, Mary Hunt's recent commentary at Religion Dispatches on the royal wedding is well worth reading.  Hunt...
Friday, April 29, 2011

From One Royal Wedding to Another: Kate and Wills Marry, and I Remember Charles and Diana

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When I wrote yesterday about Austen Ivereigh's anti-gay heterosexist take on the Kate and Wills show, I said in a comment to TheraP th...
Thursday, April 28, 2011

Austen Ivereigh on the Royal Wedding: Not the Gays' Show

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To all you gay folks who imagine the royal wedding (or marriage in any shape, form, or fashion) might have something to do with you, Engli...
Friday, February 25, 2011

U.S. Catholic Bishops' Response to DOMA Decision: Continued Demands for the "Right" to Discriminate

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Yesterday, I noted that the immediate response of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to the Obama administration's announcement th...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Francis X. Rocca on Berlusconi as Embarrassment: Catholic Heteronormativity Creating More Cognitive Dissonance

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Yesterday, as I commented on Austen Ivereigh's recent call for the Catholic bishops of the United Kingdom to stand up against equality...
Monday, February 21, 2011

Austen Ivereigh on Change in Marriage Laws in UK: "Stand Up Against Equality"

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As I wrote about Ronni Sanlo's recent report noting that Jesuit-owned Marquette university is characterized by a climate of fear and h...
Monday, January 3, 2011

Benedict on Religous Freedom: Can the Church Claim Rights for Itself While Denying Rights to LGBT Persons?

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Simon Barrow's recent essay "Reform, Persecution and Future Church" at the Ekklesia website provides a brilliant response t...
Sunday, December 5, 2010

Kevin McKenna on the Defensive Posture of Shrill Catholic Evangelicals and Pious Ecclesiastics: The Scottish Case

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I wrote recently about how misplaced, on the whole, the defensive posture being encouraged in the Catholic church today from on high appe...
Monday, November 29, 2010

The Defenders of the Church and the Apologetic Challenge of Catholicism Today

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And, building on what I have just posted: it strikes me that Austen Ivereigh at America continues to get it all wrong, when he writes tod...
Monday, November 8, 2010

Kings, and Queens, and Awe-Filled Restorationist Catholicism: We're Baaack!

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The headlines alone are almost worth the rollercoaster ride.  I'm talking about the rollercoaster ride of yet another top-dollar, resple...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Saving the Male-Female Binary Model: Mating Is Fundamental Reason for Marriage

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Meanwhile (and as a counterpoint to what I just posted about how much Catholics have to learn from Christians of some other faith traditions...