Showing posts with label Catholic church. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Catholic church. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 21, 2018

The Bridge-Building Metaphor, the LGBTQ Community, and the Catholic Church: You Want to Build a Bridge to THAT?!

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As a metaphor, the image of building bridges from the LGBTQ community to the Catholic church and vice versa does not work for me. A primar...
Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Church of England's Choice to Accept Female Bishops: What Will Be the Effect on the Roman Catholic Church? Some Musings

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As the Church of England votes at long last to accept women bishops, Catholic News Service, the USCCB's  Pravda , is already (an...
Friday, June 24, 2011

In the News: Obama and Marriage, Catholic Church's Welcoming Problem, Jim Wallis and Sojourners Again

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As the week ends, a selection of articles from the week's news that have caught my eye:
Friday, December 10, 2010

Advent Reflections: Models of Pastoral Leadership and the Future of the Church

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One of the interesting aspects of looking back through one's old journals, papers, letters--any written work into which one has poured...
Wednesday, January 6, 2010

News Roundup: Recent Articles of Significance to Religion-Culture Debates

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This is one of those posts in which I try to gather links to articles and blog postings that have impressed me in recent days. Several of t...
Friday, September 11, 2009

Readers Write: The Abuse Scandal Goes to the Heart of What Is Wrong with the Church

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And one more posting this evening that involves a dialogue sparked by a previous discussion. This discussion occurs in the thread following...
Monday, May 4, 2009

Church at the Crossroads: Reflections as Gene Robinson Becomes a Bishop

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As I've been going through my journals from the past several years, I've happened on a reflection I wrote in June 2003, as Gene Robi...
Saturday, May 2, 2009

Augustine and Croaking Frogs: America Magazine on Sectarian Catholics

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America has just uploaded to its website an editorial entitled “Sectarian Catholicism” ( here ), and it’s a fine statement—a powerful one....
Friday, May 1, 2009

On Being Catholic Today: Living Amidst Tumbling Walls

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And, as a counterpoint to what I just posted about grim data that for two years now have noted that one in ten American adults is now a form...
Tuesday, March 3, 2009

The Catholic Right as Republican Mouthpiece: Frank Cocozzelli's Analysis

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As an appendix to my discussion of the Catholic right's capitulation to the political right--its subordination of Catholic belief and va...
Thursday, February 26, 2009

A Reader Writes: Did Vatican 2 Happen?

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A very astute reader of this blog left a wonderful response to my posting yesterday about Bobby Jindal’s response to President Obama’s recen...
Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Lent and the Tears of Things: A Meditation on Mourning and the Spiritual Life

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Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt . . . . I have been struggling with sadness lately. I continue struggling with sadness as Le...
Friday, February 20, 2009

The Smaller, Purer (Leaner, Meaner) Church Rattles Again: Martino's Back

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Martino's back. And with a vengeance. You know, the Scranton, Pennsylvania, bishop who made a big splash during the presidential elect...

Readers Respond . . . .

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As I blog here, it occurs to me that I don't invite suggestions about topics to discuss--and perhaps I ought to do so. In the past two ...

Standing on the Promises: Mormons and Catholics Say, Mormons and Catholics Do

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Remember how, in the wake of prop 8’s victory in California, leaders of the LDS church assured us ( here ) that, in blocking gay marriage, t...
Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Some Notes on the Meaning of Church in Light of Benedict's Rehabilitation of SSPX (2)

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A week ago, I posted some notes ( here ) on Vatican Council II. I wanted to look back at that council in light of the choice of the current...