Showing posts with label Jesuits. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jesuits. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 6, 2019

As Catholic Dioceses Release Lists of Priests Credibly Accused of Abuse of Minors, Important Things to Watch for: The Case of Arkansas

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As more and more U.S. Catholic dioceses — but not the diocese of Charlotte, North Carolina, which remains "one of the least tran...
Monday, December 10, 2018

Abuse of Vulnerable People and Churches: Recent Reports, from Baptists to Nuns Raped by Bishops and Priests to Jesuits to a German Princess Saving the Church

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This is a collection of reports on the abuse situation as it is unfolding in various churches now. These are all recent statements, and...
Monday, October 8, 2018

U.S. Catholic Church in Snapshots from Twitter, as Georgetown Prep Grad Kavanaugh Is Seated as a Supreme

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. @newtgingrich and I congratulate our new Supreme Court Justice. pic.twitter.com/LDlDsUhL4k — Callista Gingrich (@CallyGingrich) Octobe...
Friday, September 28, 2018

Just Me, Mouthing Off About Crux and America and Large Investment of U.S. Catholic Intellectual Elites in Upholding Heterosexual Male Entitlement

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I'm just an old poofter and what I have to say doesn't matter to anyone at all, but Jesum Pete: 
Thursday, September 27, 2018

Kavanaugh Hearing and Catholic Abuse: Overlapping Narratives — Same Catholics Who Support Viganò's Allegations Dismiss Kavanaugh's Accusers

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Today I'm thinking of how many students, over the course of my teaching career, have recoiled, outraged at the thought that a woman...
Tuesday, September 25, 2018

More on the Jesuit Elite Boys' Club from Which Kavanaugh and Judge Emerged: Need to Rethink Jesuit Claims re: Inculcating Healthy Masculinity in Students?

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1) There is a serious problem in American Catholic conversations that is glaringly obvious in the discussion of Brett Kavanaugh, Mark Judg...

Emily Witt on the (Jesuit Elite) Boys' Club That Protects Kavanaugh: Need to Rethink Jesuit Claims re: Inculcating Healthy Masculinity in Students?

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Mark Judge's Page , Georgetown Prep Yearbook The Cupola , 1983 Read the following statement by Emily Witt side by side with  my po...
Monday, September 24, 2018

Recent Discussion of Brett Kavanaugh's Jesuit Prep-School "Man for Others" Training: Ambiguity of Jesuit "Band of Brothers" Ethos

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John Gehring, " Improper Formation? Kavanaugh & the Prep-School Culture ": 
Sunday, July 15, 2018

A Story of Two Jesuits, with Commentary on the Current State of the Catholic Church (Especially re: LGBTQ People)

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This is a story of two Jesuits. I'm telling it now primarily because news I read about one of the two this week gave me a shock, ...
Saturday, October 24, 2015

An Entirely Wrong-Headed Proposal for USCCB Funding of Lay Theological Education at America Magazine: My Critical Response

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As I've mentioned here in the past, I have given up on reading the Jesuit weekly America , even though I read it faithfully for m...
Sunday, February 1, 2015

On How My Jesuit Education Taught Me I'm Not a Very Good Catholic: Implications for Bilgrimage

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I'm not a very good Catholic, you understand. One of the first ways I learned that lesson decisively, as a callow convert to the ...

A Reader Writes: About Pope Francis and the Jesuits, "Many of the Origin Stories of Religious Orders Do Look a Lot Like a Spectacularly Successful Effort at Prolonged Adolescence"

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Not to be missed: Brian Gallagher's stellar response to my posting yesterday about the ambiguity of Pope Francis's Jesuit ro...
Saturday, January 31, 2015

Pope Francis's Meeting with a Transgender Man: State of the Discussion in Catholic Circles

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Two things strike me as I read this report by Tom Fox that Pope Francis met last week with a transgender man and embraced him. To be...
Friday, November 28, 2014

New Essay by Jerry Slevin: "Thanksgiving, Catholic Hope and Pope Francis"

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For your weekend reading on what's a long weekend for many American workers, I'd like to recommend to you Jerry Slevin's...
Friday, November 14, 2014

El Salvador Martyrs: Valuable Educational Resources Now Coming Online

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Monday, July 21, 2014

Robert Blair Kaiser's Inside the Jesuits: How Pope Francis Is Changing the Church and the World — Jesuit DNA and the Papacy

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Some weeks back, Rowman & Littlefield kindly sent me for review a copy of Robert Blair Kaiser's book Inside the Jesuits: How ...
Friday, September 20, 2013

My Theological Reflection on Pope Francis's Jesuit Interview: "God Is Encountered Walking, Along the Path"

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Where is God?
Friday, May 24, 2013

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "The Whole Church Reeks of Something That Is Far Removed from God"

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Yesterday, in his "Morning Briefings" column in National Catholic Reporter , Dennis Coday linked to a Chicago Tribune   sto...
Monday, August 30, 2010

Jim Martin on Glenn Beck's Bête Noire: Christianity in All Its Disturbing Fullness

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Following his Saturday revival meeting for America, Mr. Beck continues his full-throated attack on the social justice teachings of Christi...
Sunday, February 3, 2008

Compendium of Recent Catholic Anti-Gay Initiatives

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The following chronicle captures significant events in what commentators are seeing as an unprecedented attempt of the Catholic church to in...
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