Showing posts with label James Alison. Show all posts
Showing posts with label James Alison. Show all posts
Thursday, October 22, 2020

"Nobody Should Be Thrown Out": Francis's Latest Shock Wave (in Some Circles) re: Same-Sex Civil Unions

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James Alison, " Pope Francis backing same sex unions isn't a surprise. But it's still a big deal " As Jamie Manson tweets ...
Sunday, February 24, 2019

Frédéric Martel's In the Closet of the Vatican: Valuable Commentary — "A Dishonest System Cannot Demand Honesty"

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I have not read Frédéric Martel's explosive new book In the Closet of the Vatican , about which there has been a flurry of commen...
Monday, August 13, 2018

Blame-the-Gays Game in U.S. Catholicism and What Rhetoric of Moral Decay Is Really About: Who Gets Blamed and Who Gets Mulligans

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Things I'm reading lately that, to my way of thinking, belong together:
Sunday, August 5, 2018

James Alison on Homosexuality Among the Clergy, the Anatrella and McCarrick Stories, and the Trap of Clerical Dishonesty

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Someone else who understands and has recently commented on the significance of the Anatrella (and McCarrick) story for those trying t...
Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Readers Write: Pope Francis, Fox News, and Image Management; Humanae Vitae and Catholic Left's Sell-Out; Following Christ as Screaming the Catechism

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Here are four valuable comments from conversations on Bilgrimage in the past week or so (conversations about different topics) — comm...
Saturday, October 25, 2014

James Alison on the Gifts Offered by LGBT Catholics to the Church Today: "Bearers of Catholicity on Terms of Equality with Everyone Else"

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Some theology for you on this beautiful fall weekend (beautiful here, at least — and I hope in many other places too): I'd like t...
Wednesday, February 25, 2009

More on Lent and the Tears of Things: Andrew Sullivan on James Alison and Gay Believers' Pain

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And now I see, having blogged earlier today ( here ) about Lent and taking pain into one's depths to confront it and perhaps transmute ...

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...