Showing posts with label Bishop William Lori. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bishop William Lori. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 22, 2022

More on Catholic Leaders' Loss of Moral and Pastoral Credibility Due to Handling of Abuse Crisis: Protecting Children, Really?!

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Frank Schindler of Baltimore writes the Baltimore Sun, " Bishops show lack of interest in pedophile victims ":
Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Who Really Set Up Papal Meeting with Kim Davis? Enlightening Comments at Catholic Blog Site

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Yesterday at the National Catholic Reporter  site , Tom Gallagher posted an article focusing on something about which I spoke briefly...
Thursday, August 20, 2015

Will Newark Archbishop John Myers Be at Papal Events in U.S. Next Month? Yet Another Sordid Tale of Clerical Abuse (and Cover-Up) from Newark Diocese

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Archbishop John Myers A question that comes to my mind as I read Mark Mueller's article at Religion Dispatches  Religion News Ser...
Tuesday, April 7, 2015

New Ways Ministry on Catholics Responding to Anti-Gay "Religious Freedom" Laws: Bishops Continue Advocating for "Right to Discriminate" Laws

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At the New Ways Ministry blog, Bondings 2.0, today, Bob Shine summarizes various Catholic responses to the anti-gay "religious ...
Monday, April 6, 2015

Easter Monday Collage: "They Wanted to Silence the Voices of Love, but the Words of the Resurrected . . . Hammered Upon Their Minute Brain"

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An Easter Monday collage for you: articles I've read and shared this morning with friends on Facebook, all of which seem to me to...
Friday, October 11, 2013

Quote for Day: "Letter to Congress from Cardinal O'Malley and Archbishop Lori . . . Seems to Me to Violate the First Amendment"

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Religious Freedom Hearings, Feb. 2012, D.C. About that 26 September letter the USCCB sent to members of Congress, Ken Briggs tells ...
Sunday, July 28, 2013

Fred Clarkson on Christian Right's Determination to Renew Itself by Alliance of Catholic Leaders and Evangelical Right: Important Discussion

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As one week ends and another begins, I want to take note of a very important new article  by Fred Clarkson  at the Political Research Ass...
Friday, July 5, 2013

End-of-Week Commentary: Catholic Bishops' Fortnight for Freedom, DOMA and Future of the U.S.

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At his Spiritual Politics blog , Mark Silk maintains that "[t]he USCCB ought to be embarrassed" about the bizarre sideshow ...
Friday, June 21, 2013

New Round of USCCB Fortnight for Freedom Bashes Starts on Summer Solstice, Runs to Independence Day: Y'all Be There, You Hear?

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Monday, March 11, 2013

Andrew Sullivan on Bishops' Opposition to Violence Against Women Act: "Looking for Bigger Rocks"

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As last week ended, I noted the vocal opposition of a group of key U.S. Catholic bishops to the reauthorization of the Violence Agai...
Sunday, December 23, 2012

Think Progress Chooses Picture from Religious Freedom Hearings as One of 12 Memorable Photos of 2012

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I'm not the only one, it seems, who thinks this picture crystallizes some really important recognitions about the agenda of the r...
Thursday, November 15, 2012

Catholic Bishops Meet: People of God Talk about Dumb Doubling Down, Laughing, and Crying

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On her Posner Show, Sarah Posner interviews Anthea Butler about the U.S. Catholic bishops' "takeaway" from the recent U....
Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Midweek News: Maryland Marriage Equality, Mel White, Sr. Simone Campbell and Romney-Ryan

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A midweek miscellany of articles commenting on topics we've been discussing here of late--the following religion-and-politics theme...
Sunday, August 12, 2012

The Paul Ryan Selection and Spectacular Pastoral Failure of U.S. Catholic Bishops

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The New York Times on Romney's selection of Paul Ryan: after weeks of hearing nothing but vague, mendacious, marshmallow blath...
Friday, June 29, 2012

John Wojnowski: In Solitary Witness

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Abuse survivor and activist John Wojnowski is a remarkable man.  I think I first became aware of him and of the solitary witness he h...
Friday, June 15, 2012

Catholic Identity Again: More on Joan Chittister and Christiane Amanpour

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Benedict and Curia, December 2008 I keep hearing in my head snippets of Joan Chittister's dialogue this week with reporter Chri...
Thursday, June 7, 2012

Archbishop Lori Spins Religious Freedom Initiative as Non-Partisan: Reality-Based Catholics not Buying Spin

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Archbishop William Lori, head of the GOP organizing committee  Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Freedom of the U.S. Conference of Cathol...
Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Puppet Masters of Attack on American Nuns Revealed: No Surprises, Continuing Deep Corruption in Catholic Leadership

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2007 Knights of Columbus Annual Convention: Supreme Knight Anderson Gives Gaudium et Spes Award to Cardinal Bertone, Vatican Secretary of ...
Monday, March 5, 2012

Lori in the Limelight: What about Those "Large Anonymous Gifts" Used to Fight Disclosure of Sex-Abuse Files?

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And speaking of the USCCB religious freedom guru, Bishop William Lori and the increasingly high-profile role he's playing in American...
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Saturday, March 3, 2012

Bishop Lori Responds to America Editorial re: Obama Accommodation: This Is Pro-Life?!

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Recently, I wrote  that liberal Catholics who immediately signed onto the U.S. Catholic bishops' religious freedom crusade agains...