Showing posts with label Catholic bishops. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Catholic bishops. Show all posts
Sunday, December 18, 2022

Recent Religion + Politics Commentary: "Pro-Life" Movement, Christian Nationalism, Southern Baptists and United Methodists, Leonard Leo and New USCCB President

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Here are some valuable articles I've read in the past week or two about religion and politics and their intersection:
Thursday, December 1, 2022

As Respect for Marriage Act Passes Senate, Religious Groups (Even Mormons) Support it — But Not U.S. Catholic Bishops

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PRRI, " New Survey Shows Strong Support for LGBTQ Rights Championed in the Equality Act " As the Respect for Marriage Act gained S...
Saturday, November 26, 2022

Commentary on Respect for Marriage Act and How Religious Groups — Notably, U.S. Catholic Bishops — Are Dealing with This Issue

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PRRI, " Support for Nondiscrimination Protections for LGBTQ People, by Religious Affiliation, 2015-2021 " An offering of interrela...
Friday, December 11, 2020

Open Sedition from Their "Pro-Life" Party and an End-of-Office "Killing Spree": US Catholic Bishops Turn Their Big Guns vs. Hymn "All Are Welcome"

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Well, at least the US Catholic bishops are no longer babbling on about and pretending that all are welcome.
Thursday, October 8, 2020

The Current US Election and Spectacularly Failed "Pro-Life" Politics of US Catholic Bishops

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Pew Research Center, 22 July - 4 August 2019 Catholic bishop Tobin of Rhode Island tweeted during last night's debate , "Joe Biden ...
Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Robert P. Jones's Commentary on the "Historical Record of Lived Christianity in America," White Supremacy, and the Recent Sojourners Débacle

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An important contribution (and subtext) of Robert P. Jones's new book White Too Long is its focus on how white Christianity is lived in...
Tuesday, June 16, 2020

George Floyd Killed by Police, Catholic Bishops' President Takes Six Days to Speak; Supreme Court Forbids Workplace Discrimination Vs. LGBTQ People, USCCB Instantly Finds Its Voice

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Police kill George Floyd, Archbishop Gomez responds six days later; SCOTUS files a ruling about LGBT people, Gomez responds six hours late...
Sunday, June 7, 2020

Want to Know Why, Even Now, More Than Half of US White Christians Stand with Trump? See Robert P. Jones on GOP's White Christian Strategy

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1/ THREAD: For the second time this week, Donald Trump used a church as a photo op. This image released this morning shows the President ...
Monday, June 1, 2020

Again, Case Study from Minnesota: Bishops Playing Culture-War Games Cannot Effectively Address Real, Pressing Problems Like Racism

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On 23 May , I posted a piece here entitled " As US President Demands That Churches Re-Open, Case Study from Minnesota ." That...
Saturday, May 23, 2020

As US President Demands That Churches Re-Open, Case Study from Minnesota

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Tuesday, May 12, 2020

German Catholic Bishops on Dismal Failure of Predecessors in Nazi Period; Anne Barrett Doyle on Anniversary of Vos Estis Lux Mundi

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Writing in The Tablet  yesterday, Christa Pongratz-Lippit reports on an in-depth study the German Catholic bishops recently commissi...
Friday, January 31, 2020

Commentary about the New ProPublica Database of Catholic Priests Across the U.S. "Credibly Accused" of Sexual Abuse

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Ultimately @SNAPNetwork suggests that every diocese lists be made as complete as possible to protect children & give account towards...
Monday, November 25, 2019

Who Catechized Devin Nunes?

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Devin Nunes is Catholic. Who catechized Devin Nunes? Who normalizes men like William Barr and Devin Nunes (and Patrick Buchanan and Se...
Friday, November 1, 2019

If I Were a Young Person Seeking a Church Home for Myself, Why Would I EVER Want to Consider a Church in Which….

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If I were a young person seeking a church home for myself, why would I EVER want to consider a church in which
Wednesday, September 25, 2019

It's Still Going on — Cover-Up of Abuse Is Still Going on — and Catholics Know This, Do not Trust Their Bishops, and Are Withholding Money

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Since some of us recently had a discussion here about Catholics withholding donations to parishes and Catholic institutions because m...
Thursday, July 18, 2019

I Refuse to Hate: People of Faith Challenge GOP Racism, or What's Wrong with the U.S. Catholic Bishops?!

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Chris Morley comments on Bilgrimage,
Saturday, July 6, 2019

Ruth Krall, Looking Slant: Oppressive Ideologies and Belief Systems (2)

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Ebola: Transporting a Sick Child to a Care Facility This is the second part of Ruth Krall's essay "Looking Slant: Oppressive...
Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Margaret Renkl on Obligation of Catholics to Defend Their LGBTQ Brothers and Sisters — Even Against Archbishops

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Margaret Renkl, " How to Defy the Catholic Church: Believers have a spiritual obligation to defend their L.G.B.T.Q. brothers and sis...
Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Southern Baptist and U.S. Catholic Leaders Meet in Same Week, Both Confronting Serious Sexual Abuse Problems: A "Gender Hurricane" Results

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It's a gender hurricane out there this week. Come Holy Spirit. https://t.co/ebDdAKIsEc — Natalia Imperatori (@nimperatori) June 11, 2...
Friday, June 7, 2019

Bishop Bransfield Authors "One of the Finest Pastoral Letters on Poverty" Michael Sean Winters Has Read: My Response

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In an essay about the scandal that is Bishop "$182,000 for Cut Flowers" Bransfield, entitled " Lavish living by Cathol...