Showing posts with label Cardinal Francis George. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cardinal Francis George. Show all posts
Saturday, September 13, 2014

More on National Congregations Study's Finding That U.S. Churches Are Moving in Gay-Inclusive Direction — Except Catholics: Whys and Wherefores

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Yesterday, I briefly discussed the results of the National Congregations Study's survey  released on 11 September, a survey that ...
Saturday, May 24, 2014

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcages: The Gays Get Human Rights, and the Blood of Christian Martyrs Will Run in the Streets

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A teacher fired by a Catholic school for marrying his partner files suit to contest the discrimination, and some commentators at the...
Saturday, February 1, 2014

Father Tom Doyle Responds to Cardinal George: "What Is It They Did Not Know 'Then' That They Know Now?"

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Father Thomas Doyle I received Father Thomas Doyle's outstanding rebuttal to the claims of Chicago Cardinal Francis George abou...
Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Frank at Letters to the Catholic Right: Pope Francis Speaks, Catholic Right Responds, "Nothing New," Rinse, Repeat

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Yesterday, I took a look at William J. Dohar's recent essay at Religion Dispatches which examines the implication of Pope Franc...
Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Professor William J. Dohar on Why No U.S. Bishops Stood by Pope Francis When He Asked, "Who Am I to Judge?

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William J. Dohar And it's not only Professor Charles J. Reid who's speaking out about the Catholic church's treatment ...
Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Pope Francis Steps, Cardinal Dolan Back-Steps: Dolan on Francis's Statement about Gays--"What Surprises Me Is That People Are Surprised"

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Yesterday, Timothy Cardinal Dolan, leader of the U.S. Catholic bishops, shared his understanding of Pope Francis's comments Mon...
Sunday, July 21, 2013

Faithful America Petition: "Tell Roman Catholic Cardinal: Don't Offer Your Blessing to Ex-Gay Therapy"

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On Thursday, I blogged about the decision of Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, the past president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic...
Thursday, July 18, 2013

Cardinal Francis George to Celebrate Mass at Courage Conference Featuring NARTH Speakers

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Maureen Fiedler reports  at National Catholic Reporter  this morning that the past president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bisho...
Friday, February 15, 2013

Illinois Catholic Laity Reject Bishops' Lead about Marriage Equality, Robert Mickens on Benedict's Resignation, Rachel Maddow on Hubris and Iraq War

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End-of-week news items that I couldn't shoehorn into other postings today, but which strike me as eminently worth paying attentio...
Sunday, January 6, 2013

Illinois Bishops Slam the Gays, and Illinois Priest Is Found Handcuffed and Gagged

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Can I be the only person in the world thinking about this  when I read this  and listen to the audio clip attached to the article?
Thursday, January 3, 2013

Catholic Leaders Step Up Attacks on Gays: Reports from the Battlefronts

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I doubt it will be any secret to readers of this blog, but the leaders of the Catholic church are stepping up their battle against the ...
Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Catholic Bishops Meet: "800-Pound Gorilla" Gathers with Them, According to David Gibson

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At the end of last week , I linked to a powerful statement of journalist Susan Hogan  reminding us that, ten years ago this month--a ...
Friday, December 23, 2011

Merry Christmas to the Gay Community from Cardinal George: Gays = Klan

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Just in time for Christmas, the former president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, gives ...
Monday, August 8, 2011

Reflections on Rick Perry's Response Rally: Attack on the Love Ethic and Corporatist Puppet-Masters

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I didn't watch Rick Perry's Response rally this weekend.  I took last week as a kind of retreat-discernment week, and as I did so,...
Monday, January 24, 2011

Benedict to Christian Leaders in Week of Prayer for Christian Unity: Pro-Life Means Anti-Gay

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And in case we don't get the point that I emphasized in my posting yesterday commenting on Archbishop Timothy Dolan's "state ...
Saturday, January 15, 2011

Pastoral Leadership of Bishops and the Exodus from the Catholic Church: Is There a Correlation?

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In my previous posting about Eugene Kennedy's critique of John Allen's attempt to spin Cardinal Francis George as the U.S. Catholi...

John Allen on Cardinal George as U.S. Bishops' Thinker-in-Chief: Eugene Kennedy Responds (Say Whaaa?!)

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Yesterday, I noted a lecture that the outgoing president of the U.S. Catholic Bishops' Conference, Cardinal Francis George, gave in De...
Thursday, January 13, 2011

My Real Rights Trump Your Alleged Rights: Catholic Officials Keep Appealing to Religious Freedom While Urging Discrimination

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In several postings as the new year began, I predicted that we'd see much more of what I regard as a subject-changing rhetorical ploy ...
Thursday, December 2, 2010

Illinois Senate Passes Civil Unions, Despite Cardinal George's Opposition

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An update to the story about which I posted two days ago: the outspoken opposition of the Illinois Catholic Conference to a bill for same-...
Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Robert McClory on the Anti-Gospel of Catholic Leaders, and Exodus from Catholic Church

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In Chicago Catholic News , Robert McClory, professor emeritus of Northwestern School of Journalism, writes in response to Cardinal Francis...