Showing posts with label Australia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Australia. Show all posts
Thursday, February 2, 2023

As Cardinal Pell Is Buried, He's Acclaimed a "Saint for Our Times," While Abuse Survivors and LGBTQ People Protest

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As Rod McGuirk reports , as Cardinal Pell's funeral is held today, police have refused to permit LGBTQ-rights protesters outside the Cat...
Friday, August 30, 2019

"George Pell AC (born 8 June 1941) Is an Australian Cardinal of the Catholic Church and Convicted Child Sex Offender": Questions We Might Ask

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Plus ça change : for people who profess to be all about taking history and tradition seriously, many self-professed Catholic conserva...
Monday, March 27, 2017

Backwards-Focused and Angry: Parallels Between Trump Voters and One Nation Voters in Australia

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Yesterday, The Guardian published an excerpt from an essay written by David Marr for the Australian journal Quarterly Essay , entitle...
Monday, August 29, 2016

Parramatta (Australia) Diocesan Newspaper Catholic Outlook Back Online, with Text of Bishop Vincent Long's Ann D. Clark Lecture Calling for Catholic Church to Reassess Approach to Gay Folks

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For those who may not have seen the note I added last night to my posting earlier yesterday noting that Bishop Vincent Long's An...
Sunday, August 28, 2016

Text of Bishop Vincent Long's Lecture Calling for Reassessment of Catholic Cruelty to Gay People Has Disappeared Again

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The text of Bishop Vincent Long's recent Ann D. Clark lecture in Penrith, Australia, about which I blogged recently , has once ag...
Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Footnote to Commentary on Bishop Vincent Long's Ann D. Clark Lecture: Link Is Now Back Up

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A footnote to what I posted yesterday about the disappearing link to Bishop Vincent Long's Ann D. Clark lecture, which had been u...
Monday, August 22, 2016

On a Disappearing Lecture by a Bishop Challenging Injustice Towards Gay Folks: Churches Hostile to Gays Might Consider Just Shutting Up about a Loving God

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Last Friday, the publication Catholic Outlook , a publication of the Catholic diocese of Parramatta in Australia, uploaded to its w...
Thursday, February 18, 2016

Call to Cardinal Pell to Come Home and Face the Music Ruffles His Eminence's Feathers

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Even in Lent we can laugh, right? Though sometimes it's through our tears.
Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Charles Pierce and Joelle Casteix on the Rot in the NY Archdiocese: The Sordid Story of Father Peter Miqueli and What Cardinal Dolan Knew When

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Until yesterday, the story of what's happening with Father Peter Miqueli and former USCCB president Cardinal Timothy Dolan in t...
Friday, December 11, 2015

Frank Brennan, SJ, on the Australian Catholic Bishops and Marriage Equality: My Response and Critique of the Clericalist Closed-Circle Argument

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I very much appreciate that Chris Morley recommended to us Jesuit Father Frank Brennan's recent article at Eureka Street  no...

Theological Roots of Bitter Battle of Some Christians Against LGBT Rights: The Bible Can't Be Wrong (We Can't Be Wrong, and Heterosexual Men Rule)

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Here's a set of interlocking observations that, to my mind, share a common theme: 1) a comment an Episcopal priest made to me yes...
Monday, August 31, 2015

Kieran Tapsell on Bishop Geoffrey Robinson's Testimony Before Australian Abuse Commission: Vatican's Belief That Church Law Trumps Civil Law Is Big Obstacle for Commission

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Highly recommended: Kieran Tapsell's conversation with Noel Debien  of ABC Australia yesterday evening. Kieran Tapsell is an atto...
Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Christina Keneally on Bishop Robinson Before Australian Royal Commission: The Difference Silence Makes

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As Christina Keneally has reported for The Guardian , in his testimony before the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Res...
Thursday, August 20, 2015

More Blooms (or Weeds?) from My Garden: Catholic Mexico Has Marriage Equality, "Progressive" Australia Doesn't — What Gives?; Why the Huge Overlap Between Men's Rights Movement and Libertarian and Atheist Movements?

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I keep plucking blooms (Or are they weeds? It's often hard to distinguish) from my garden, and want to offer you a few more today...
Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Irish Vote for LGBT Equality Continues Rippling Out to Other Nations: Chris Morley's Update

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Chris Morley left two wonderful reports  (and here ) in the comments section of this blog today, about the ripple effect (already) of...
Monday, May 25, 2015

After Ireland, Heat On in Many Other Countries to Respect LGBT Equality: Australia, Italy, Germany, Etc.

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As I've noted in a number of postings in the past few days, a theme now emerging following the remarkable Irish vote for LGBT human...