Showing posts with label Jamie Manson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jamie Manson. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Quote for Day: "Church's Radically Patriarchal Leadership Structure and Theology Are at the Root of Most Sex Abuse Cases in the Church"

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Jamie Manson writes, " No, Jean Vanier is not 'like all of us' ":
Friday, April 12, 2019

More Valuable Commentary on Benedict's Poisonous Letter: Part of a Bigger Initiative of Catholic Right, with Bannon at the Very Center

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Steve Bannon is on a new crusade to reform the Vatican. Critics say he, and a movement, are using the same playbook that helped President ...
Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Why Blaming Gay Priests for Catholic Abuse Situation Will Not Help Anything (Plus News about Cardinal Pell, Anti-Gay Hardliner)

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As I posted my posting two days ago  with an assortment of reports about the sexual abuse of vulnerable people in Christian churches,...
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, ...
Thursday, August 23, 2018

Refusal of Catholic Hierarchy to Get Abuse Situation Parallels Refusal to Get LGBTQ People: World Meeting of Families Reminds Us, It's Not Going to Get Better

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Massive media turnout for lgbtq choir singing “Something Inside So Strong,” an Anti-Apartheid song, outside the walls of the World Meetin...
Friday, August 17, 2018

More Commentary on Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report, as Vatican Sends Thoughts and Prayers

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Elizabeth Bruenig, " Evil walked the earth in Pennsylvania ": That there should be mass defrockings is obvious. That t...
Saturday, June 2, 2018

Catholic Church and LGBTQ People: Clues, Hearsay, Spectacularly Failed Pastoral Leadership in Face of Oppression and Suffering

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Jamie L. Manson, " For LGBTQ Catholics, there is little hope in hearsay ":
Saturday, January 27, 2018

It's Never About Racism: White Catholic Voters, Abortion, and How the Religious Right Culture Wars Began (Hint: It's About Racism)

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In 1958, Jerry Falwell wrote the following: “When God has drawn a line of distinction, we should not attempt to cross that line,” and s...
Tuesday, October 24, 2017

"Some People Get Uninvited from Talks. Some People Never, Ever Get Even an Invitation to the Table at All": Mary Hunt, Marianne Duddy-Burke, Jamie Manson NCR Podcast Conversation

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I've previously recommended to you Mary Hunt, Marianne Duddy-Burke, and Jamie Manson's essay at National Catholic Reporter  entit...
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...

On the Characterization of Some Catholic LGBTQ Voices as Uncharitable Garbage: Continuing the Necessary Conversation

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Because I think this conversation is extremely important — if the goal of any reformist group within the Catholic church really is to...
Sunday, October 22, 2017

Associate Director of New Ways Ministry Responds to My Essay about Mary Hunt, Marianne Duddy Burke, and Jamie Manson's Recent Proposal as "Uncharitable Garbage": My Reflections

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A number of days back, I recommended  to you an essay by Mary Hunt, Marianne Duddy-Burke, and Jamie Manson calling for kick-starting...
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...
Friday, July 7, 2017

Jamie Manson's Critique of Father James Martin's Bridge-Building Proposal: "Compassion, Respect and Sensitivity Are Not Enough to Bring about a Truly Just Relationship Between Bishops and LGBT Catholics"

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Jamie L. Manson responds to Father James Martin's proposal for a bridge to be built between the LGBTQ community and the Catholic h...
Monday, May 23, 2016

More Commentary on Pope Francis and Women Deacons: Jamie Manson and Mary Hunt — "He Believes That God Simply Cannot Work Through the Female Body in the Way in Which God Works through the Male Body"

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Here are two more pieces of good commentary I'd like to recommend to you, regarding the discussion of the possibility of studying...
Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Father Thomas Reese on John Paul II As a Loving Grandfather: Whose Experience of the Church Counts, As Pope Francis's Exhortation on the Family Is Published?

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Father Thomas Reese thinks John Paul II came across as "a loving but benighted grandfather." And as I read that baffling o...
Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Jamie Manson on Pope Francis's Curiously Straitened Notion of Mercy When Women and Women's Ordination Are Under Consideration

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For the University of Arizona's Zócalo Public Square blog, Jamie Manson  explains the anguish of Roman Catholic women like hersel...