Showing posts with label Geoffrey Robinson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Geoffrey Robinson. Show all posts
Saturday, June 24, 2017

More on Father James Martin's Bridge-Building Project: If Derision Is a Societal Necessity, Is Mocking the Sartorial Excesses of the Hierarchy Really Disrespectful?

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As the current discussion of the staging of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar in Central Park in New York reminds us, mockery can be a ...
Thursday, June 22, 2017

Father James Martin's Bridge-Building Metaphor and Call to Mutual Respect Between Catholic Leaders and LGBTQ Community: My Critical Commentary

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I have not read Father James Martin's new book Building a Bridge , which calls on the pastoral leaders of the Catholic church to ...
Monday, August 31, 2015

Kieran Tapsell on Bishop Geoffrey Robinson's Testimony Before Australian Abuse Commission: Vatican's Belief That Church Law Trumps Civil Law Is Big Obstacle for Commission

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Highly recommended: Kieran Tapsell's conversation with Noel Debien  of ABC Australia yesterday evening. Kieran Tapsell is an atto...
Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Christina Keneally on Bishop Robinson Before Australian Royal Commission: The Difference Silence Makes

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As Christina Keneally has reported for The Guardian , in his testimony before the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Res...
Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Tom Doyle in Robert Blair Kaiser's Whistle: "Survivors Have Changed the Course of Catholic History. They Have Accelerated the Paradigm Shift of the Church"

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I don't want to wear you out with excerpts from Robert Blair Kaiser's book about Tom Doyle , Whistle . I do encourage you to ...
Thursday, July 23, 2015

SNAP on Premature Forgiveness and Harm It Does to Abuse Survivors: The Need for a Moratorium on Forgiveness Talk in Clergy Abuse Cases

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Today, I'd like to share with you a statement from Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP), which appeared a few days...
Friday, December 6, 2013

Papal Commission on Sexual Abuse Crisis Announced; Survivors Respond

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The Vatican announced yesterday that Pope Francis has set up a papal commission to advise him about dealing with the sexual abuse cri...
Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Open Letter to Pope Francis and Cardinal-Advisors from For Christ's Sake: "All Catholics Have the Right, Innately Deriving from Our Baptism, to Have an Effective and Deliberative Voice"

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More on the discussion of the agenda of reform that many lay Catholics hope the current pope has begun to undertake with the assistan...
Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Bishop Geoffrey Robinson to Pope Francis: "For Christ's Sake, Stop Sexual Abuse"

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A number of e-friends of mine and good readers of this blog have recommended an international petition to Pope Francis from Bishop Geof...
Monday, February 11, 2013

Benedict's Resignation: Thanks Owed to Survivors of Childhood Clerical Abuse for Call to Build a Better Church

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One of the significant stories about the second Vatican Council conspicuously ignored by many contemporary "traditionalists...
Wednesday, November 28, 2012

The Ongoing Challenge of Dealing with Child Abuse in the Catholic Church: Testimony of Bishop Geoffrey Robinson

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As I offer my ten notes  about the problem of child abuse and Jerry Slevin's valuable proposal for a U.S. national commission to...
Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Recent Statements on Need for Catholic Reform: Father Tom Doyle, Bishop Geoffrey Robinson

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From my previous week of blogging silence, I have a number of articles all related to the theme of the need for reformation of the Ca...
Tuesday, June 22, 2010

A Report from the Front: Sunday Liturgy at Most Holy Redeemer Parish in San Francisco

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Steve and I went to liturgy this past weekend at Most Holy Redeemer church in the Castro district of San Francisco.  It's the parish o...
Monday, May 4, 2009

Thought for the Day: Geoffrey Robinson on Salvific Role of Victims of Clerical Abuse

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There is another forgiveness that is essential. Communities must forgive, in the literal sense of "give themselves for," victims ...
Thursday, June 5, 2008

Disinformation, Speaking Truth to Power, and the Ministry of Blogging

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I have noted previously, valued friends, that I want to avoid focusing this blog on political discussion per se . As my profile statement ...
Friday, April 18, 2008

Benedict's Visit: Drawing Lines or Opening Arms?

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This has been a week of travel, in which it has not been easy to be online frequently. Given this, and since I’ve fulfilled my major task f...
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