Showing posts with label Cardinal Ratzinger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cardinal Ratzinger. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 10, 2020

"Pope John Paul II Was Warned about Allegations of Sexual Impropriety by Theodore McCarrick, but Chose to Promote Him": My Response

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Joshua McElwee on Twitter Some headlines today:
Thursday, April 11, 2019

Benedict Undercuts Francis on Abuse Narrative: The 1960s Made Us Do It

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Pope Benedict's letter from his hideout blames the sexual revolution in the '60s for crimes against children committed on his wat...
Thursday, March 28, 2019

Frédéric Martel's In the Closet of the Vatican: Concluding Remarks About Why This Book Matters — The Extensive Damage Done by a System "Perverted Since the Outset"

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I've now finished reading Frédéric Martel's In the Closet of the Vatican , and want to share some concluding thoughts about the...
Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Frédéric Martel on the Tragedy That Is the Pastoral Career of Joseph Ratzinger — A Tragedy for the Entire Church

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From Frédéric Martel, In the Closet of the Vatican , on the tragedy of Joseph Ratzinger's (Benedict XVI's) pastoral career: ...
Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Two More Valuable Resources re: Opus Dei: Betty Clermont's and Penny Lernoux's Books

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I'd like to add two valuable resources to the primer of books and articles about Opus Dei I posted this past weekend . That primer ...
Saturday, November 17, 2018

Commentary on U.S. Bishops' Meeting: "The Moral Credibility of Catholic Bishops in the United States Is in Tatters"

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Barry Blitt's "Welcome to Congress" cover for New Yorker , 9 November 2018 Now if a knock-off cover could only be prod...
Tuesday, September 11, 2018

On the "Light Handed" St. John Paul the Great and the "Mild" Benedict: Anti-Francis Catholic Right and "Dinesh DeSouza School of Church History"

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Lessons from the 14th Amendment: Every society is built on foundation myths, affirming the righteousness of the National project. But the ...
Tuesday, August 14, 2018

More Initial Impressions of Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report: "They Hid It All"

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More first impressions:

Initial Impressions of Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report: "They Hid It All"

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I have not yet read the Pennsylvania grand jury report. I am reading news coverage now. Here are some initial top-of-the-head responses...
Thursday, February 2, 2017

Failure of Catholic Progressives to Speak Out for Years Now About LGBTQ Humanity Undercuts Catholic Witness vs. Muslim Ban

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From 1986 forward, when Cardinal Ratzinger issued his infamous "Hallowe'en document" defining gay people as intrinsically ...
Sunday, October 30, 2016

Some Resources for Your Consideration: Live Streaming of Father James Martin's Address on LGBTQ Issues in Catholic Context Today, Etc.

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I'd like to draw your attention today to some noteworthy (and time-sensitive) resources that may interest many Bilgrimage readers...
Saturday, August 27, 2016

Where Have All the Christian Intellectuals Gone? (Does Anyone Remember John Paul's and Ratzinger's Purge of Catholic Theologians?)

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It's a thing now among journalists and religion commentators to ask what has happened to the public intellectuals of the churches...
Monday, June 20, 2016

"They Put Us in Closets and Do All They Can to Keep Us There": More on the Catholic Erasure of LGBTQ People from the Narrative About Orlando

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"Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy takes the rest of the week." - Alice Walker — Broderick Greer (@BroderickG...
Friday, January 22, 2016

Recommended: Joe Biden on LGBT Rights, Catherine Wallace on Gay Marriage and Anglican Anxiety, Patricia Miller on What Pope Benedict Knew When

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God bless Joe Biden (the section I've transcribed from his recent remarks at the World Economic Forum begins at about the 1.55 mar...
Friday, January 15, 2016

Quote for Day: Alexander Stille on What Pope Benedict Knew About Abuse in the Catholic Church

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Alexander Stille in The New Yorker yesterday, commenting on the disclosure by a German lawyer that 231 boys were abused in the Regen...
Saturday, October 3, 2015

The Telenovela Continues: Gay Vatican Official Comes Out and Is Sacked in Advance of Synod on the Family

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OMG. Did someone say head-turners? (Yes, I'm between popcorn runs, and very glad I bought in a big new supply of popcorn today, b...
Saturday, September 26, 2015

Remembering John McNeill, As Doors Slam Shut on Thousands at World Meeting of Families

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As several of you have noted in comments here in the past few days, on the day on which Pope Francis arrived in the U.S., noted t...
Wednesday, September 23, 2015

As Francis Comes to U.S., I Remember JPII's Visit to My University in 1987 — When the Ceiling Fell

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As the current pope comes to the U.S., how can I ever forget the visit of another previous rock-star pope, John Paul II, to the U.S.?...
Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Gabriel Daly on Irish Vote as "Caring for a Wounded Minority Who Were Strangers in Their Own Community": Contrasting Irish and American Catholic Values

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Catholic theologian (and priest) Gabriel Daly commenting in The Tablet on the deeply Catholic theological underpinnings of the recen...
Friday, November 14, 2014

El Salvador Martyrs: Valuable Educational Resources Now Coming Online

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