Showing posts with label Garry Wills. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Garry Wills. Show all posts
Friday, January 4, 2019

Garry Wills on How Celibacy Is Not the Cause of the Sex-Abuse Crisis — The Priesthood Is: "The Priesthood Is Itself an Affront to the Gospel"

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Responding to a prediction by Father Tom Reese that the Catholic church will begin relaxing its celibacy requirement for priests thi...
Friday, August 24, 2018

Catholics Talking, Walking: "It Is Time to Stop Waiting for More Reports to Accumulate, Hoping That Something Will Finally Be Done about This"

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Colm O'Gorman to Shelagh Fogarty, "Leading Britain's Conversation" Interview, by way of Sandra Glab Amanda Auchter, ...
Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Here Be Dragons: Tribalistic Patrolling of Catholic-Identity Boundaries and Pushback Against Garry Wills

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Over the lunch hour and after we had met friends for lunch, Steve had a bit of business to conduct. As I often do while I wait in the...
Friday, February 15, 2013

Michael Sean Winters Orders Garry Wills to Go Away, and I Order Wills's Book Why Priests? in Response

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Michael Sean Winters tells Garry Wills "please go away" and "stop posing as a Christian commentator," and my imm...
Monday, January 28, 2013

Frank Bruni Talks Hubris and Cosseted Clerical Castes, Michael Sean Winters Talks Tortellini

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I n a pull-no-punches statement yesterday  entitled "Catholicism's Curse,"  New York Times  columnist Frank Bruni bring...
Monday, December 17, 2012

News Tidbits: Gun Sales Going Great Guns, Adam Lanza's Mother a Gun Enthusiast, Garry Wills on Gun Idolatry, Jerry Slevin on Petition to Protect Children

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Ed Kennedy reports at AfterElton today that, according to buzz on social media, "gun shops are doing record business this [pas...
Monday, July 9, 2012

Frank Cocozzelli on Bill Keller's "Shut Up and Go" Invitation to Catholic Dissenters: Stay and Fight

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Not to be missed: Frank Cocozzelli's recent assessment of Bill Keller's invitation (à la Bill Donohue) to dissident progressiv...
Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Holy Things for the Holy: Debate about the Sacrament of Marriage among Catholics Today

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Garry Wills writes in the New York Review of Books  that marriage is a "natural" institution and a natural union that was ...
Friday, April 27, 2012

Gerald T. Slevin: Philly Predator Priests & Papal Politics

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As this work week ends, another outstanding piece from Jerry Slevin, commenting on the ongoing trial in the archdiocese of Philadelphia...
Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Catholic Bishops, Religious Women, Politics: Recent Commentary

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In an essay just published in NY Review of Books  entitled "Bullying the Nuns," Garry Wills argues that the following is hap...
Thursday, February 16, 2012

Contraception Battles: More Commentary Hot off the Presses

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I'm immersed in mounds of footnotes for my book right now, and working in a chair beside a long table stacked high with books, whic...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Mary Lee Settle, John Henry Newman, and Roger Williams: Musings on Authentic Catholicity

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Becky Garrison's interview today at Religion Dispatches with Wake Forest's Bill Leonard about Roger Williams catches my eye ...
Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Mid-Week News Update: Stories from Marquette, Boston, Vatican, Portugal, and Malawi

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A mid-week news update: articles that have either caught my attention because they seem to me to deserve careful reading, or because th...