Showing posts with label James Martin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label James Martin. Show all posts
Monday, January 14, 2019

This Has Happened: What to Make of Recent Chain of Events from Opus Dei-McCloskey to Cardinal Burke to Peter Steinfels to Archbishop Viganò?

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So this has happened: 1. Jan. 7: Washington Post breaks Opus Dei-McCloskey story. 2. Jan. 8: Cardinal Burke mounts an attack on Pope F...
Sunday, October 7, 2018

Mark Shea on What Viganò, Burke, and Bannon's Anti-Francis Gay-Bashing Is About: "This is About the Rich Seizing Control of the Church, not About the Protection of Victims"

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Kavanaugh Has Exposed the Savage Amorality of America's Ruling Class https://t.co/PgdtZykKrw — Mary Aktay (@maryaktay) October 6, 201...
Thursday, August 23, 2018

Google Top Stories Featuring Catholic Homophobic Bile in "Top Stories" re: World Meeting of Families

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Look at the Catholic homophobic bile Google is billing right now as its set of "top stories" if you google Fr. James Marti...
Sunday, February 4, 2018

Kevin Ahern on the Failure of American Catholic Theologians to Defend Father James Martin: "A Crisis or Perhaps Even a Failure in Our Public Theology"

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A Failure in Public Theology: The Non-Defense of James Martin, SJ by @kevin_ahern https://t.co/XX7Z9kmdRr via @wordpressdotcom — Katie...

Frank Bruni's Column on How Father James Martin Is Being Attacked Reads Like Commentary on RNS Discussion Thread About Martin

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Pat Bagley on Twitter As I said earlier today in the RNS  discussion thread following Jacob Lupfer's account of Father James Mar...
Saturday, February 3, 2018

For Religion News Service, Jacob Lupfer Reports on Georgetown Lecture by Father James Martin: Queer-Bashing Trolls Go Wild

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Most of you readers are no doubt smarter learners than I am. So you will have figured this out long before I did: it's an absolut...
Friday, January 19, 2018

When "Pro-Life" Christianity Becomes Death-Dealing: An Intra-Catholic Twitter Discussion on the Day of March for Life (2)

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This week I spoke to a gay man who lost his job at his parish. Spoke to an *autistic* (and celibate) gay man whose pastor said he could on...

When "Pro-Life" Christianity Becomes Death-Dealing: An Intra-Catholic Twitter Discussion on the Day of March for Life

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Being "pro life" means defending the lives of the unborn and the sick the poor the homeless the aged the mentally challen...
Wednesday, December 27, 2017

"Bishops Like Curlin and Cardinal Law, What They Have Done Is Criminal": A Church That Wants to Be Pastoral Must Listen to Testimony of Abuse Survivors

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In a 27 April 2002 letter to the Charlotte Observer  entitled "In Eyes of Abuse Victims, Bishop Curlin Is No Hero,"* Neal E...
Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Remembering Bishop William G. Curlin of Charlotte As Eminently Pastoral (There's Still No Room in the Inn for You Queer Catholics) (2)

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On 22 January and 3 February 2003, Cardinal Bernard Law was deposed in Boston by attorneys representing abuse survivors. In that depo...

Remembering Bishop William G. Curlin of Charlotte As Eminently Pastoral (There's Still No Room in the Inn for You Queer Catholics)

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RIP Bishop William Curlin, Emeritus Bishop of Charlotte, NC: a holy man, a gifted pastor, a gentle priest and a dear friend. He was a frie...
Monday, December 25, 2017

The Message of the Church to LGBTQ Catholics: Merry Christmas — Oh, and There's (Still) No Room in the Inn for the Likes of You

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Until we do right by immigrants & refugees, we forfeit the right to claim we know what Christmas is about. https://t.co/vJ3nl3B7a2 —...
Wednesday, October 25, 2017

A Reader Asks: "If You Could Sit Down with Fr. Martin for a One on One," What Would You Say? My Response

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In response to what I posted yesterday as I recommended to you the podcast discussion featuring Mary Hunt, Marianne Duddy-Burke, and ...
Monday, October 23, 2017

An Apology from New Ways Ministry Official for His Comment About Me on Facebook

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I do want to acknowledge that I have received an emailed apology from the New Ways Ministry official who left the comment on Facebook...
Wednesday, October 11, 2017

"When Wolf Meets Sheep": On the Possibility of Safe Dialogue Spaces to Discuss Same-Sex Lives and Love in the U.S. Catholic Church

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At New Ways Ministry's Bondings 2.0 blog today , Robert Shine cites Damian Torres-Botello, an out gay Jesuit who writes the followin...
Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Mary Hunt, Marianne Duddy-Burke, and Jamie Manson Propose Reframing Catholic Conversation re: Same-Sex Love; Francis DeBernardo Responds — My Reflections

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Recently, at National Catholic Reporter , Mary Hunt, Marianne Duddy-Burke, and Jamie Manson published an essay calling for kick-star...
Thursday, October 5, 2017

Las Vegas Story: Google Finds Itself Gamed Again by Organized Hate Groups (Back to the Case of Father Martin and Church Militant)

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On 21 September, I presented you with a series of screenshots showing you that on that day at about 2 P.M. CST (in the U.S.), the thre...
Thursday, September 21, 2017

Google's "Top Stories" re: Fr. James Martin Right Now? All Vile, Hateful, Lie-Filled Personal Attacks by Church Militant — Google's Continuing Irresponsibility with "Top Stories"

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Google James Martin now, & the top 3 stories Google recommends are vile, hate-filled, lie-filled attacks on him from Church Milit...
Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Bridge-Building with the Catholic and LGBTQ Communities, and the "Both Sides" Argument: More Critical Responses

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54 years ago today, four black girls were killed by white supremacist terrorists in a bombing at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham...
Tuesday, September 19, 2017

On the (Hateful Homophobic) Vitriol Eating Away at the Communion of the Church: "If Good Religion Slumbers and Stagnates, Bad Religion Is the Alternative"

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I see connections galore between these good articles I've read in the past few days. Do you, too, I wonder? Laura Donlon , ...