Showing posts with label John Allen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Allen. Show all posts
Monday, March 13, 2023

On the Canonization of John Paul II and Survivors of Clerical Sexual Abuse, John Allen and Thomas Reese Spectacularly Miss the Point

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Käthe Kollwitz, "Mothers" ("Mutter"), 1919, lithograph in Princeton University Art Museum John Allen and Thomas Reese ap...
Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Crux on Cardinal McCarrick's "Sexually Deviant Behavior": U.S. Catholic Church Continues to Be Unsafe for LGBTQ People

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I went to bed last night more than a little troubled by something Crux  reporter Christopher White states in his report on a presentatio...
Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Francis Effect for Gay* Folks? Still Elusive, As Bishops Around Globe Throw His Harsh Words in Faces of Gay* People

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Yesterday, I drew your attention to a just-published essay by Patricia Miller  which suggests that the U.S. Catholic bishops have done...
Monday, April 4, 2016

With Knights of Columbus Funding and Strong Connections to Well-Heeled Right-Wing Catholic Elite Groups, Crux Promises No Good New for LGBTQ Catholics

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Last week, I commented on a recent statement by Kaya Oakes at Religion Dispatches raising critical questions about the choice of Jo...
Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "Instead, We Are Left with the Likes of John Allen and Rocco Palmo Who Are Just Pole Dancers at Bishop Conventions"

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In response to Kaya Oakes's recent article about John Allen's decision to turn to the Knights of Columbus to fund his Crux  ...
Tuesday, March 29, 2016

As Crux Turns to Knights of Columbus for Funding, A Reflection on Catholic Heterosexism and Lack of Solidarity with LGBTQ People Among Heterosexually Privileged "Liberal" Catholics

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Tomorrow's my birthday, but Steve has informed me that the Birthday Rules dictate that one's birthday begins at sundown the d...
Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Robert Mickens on Bread, Circuses, and Dressed-Up Enbalmed Corpses for the Year of Mercy (and John Allen's Counter-Analysis)

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Robert Mickens on bread and circuses (and dressed-up enbalmed corpses) for the Year of Mercy:
Sunday, October 26, 2014

Ross Douthat on the Pope's Betrayal of Catholics Who Count: A "Small Minority" Have "Kept the Faith"

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My family once belonged to a country club. I hated every moment we spent in that club, because its "old" members made it ve...
Sunday, February 9, 2014

Taking A Close Look at the "Church Teaching" That Vatican Media Apologists Claim U.N. Attacks: There's Their World, and Then There's the Real World

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For Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP),  David Clohessy responds to Austen Ivereigh's claim that the U.N. Comm...
Thursday, February 6, 2014

Patricia Miller: Vatican Itself Argued That Sexual Abuse of Children Is a Culture-War Issue

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Patricia Miller at Religion Dispatches on the Vatican's perfervid response (echoed by centrist media commentators) to the U.N. r...

Times Editorial on U.N. and Vatican, Plus Vatican Apologists Begin Their Spin: Ten Critical Questions

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An editorial in todays'  New York Times responds to the U.N. report on the Vatican’s handling of the abuse crisis in the Catholi...
Sunday, January 19, 2014

AP Reports That Benedict Defrocked 400 Abusive Priests: Vatican Denies Report, Then Retracts Denial, John Allen Sums Up

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Wednesday, January 8, 2014

In the News: Little Sisters of Poor vs. Obama, Frank Cocozzelli's Coughie Award, Fred Clark's "Daily Blog of the Day," John Allen Leaving NCR

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The Daily Show Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes , The Daily Show on Facebook Now a grab-bag of news items and articles that hav...
Thursday, August 22, 2013

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "We Also Want Men--Including John Allen, Michael Sean Winters . . . --to Realise That There is a Problem with the Role of Women in the Church Today"

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Writing in response to Dennis Coday's "Morning Briefing" column in National Catholic Reporter  yesterday, which links ...
Sunday, August 4, 2013

Right Reels at Pope Francis's Comments About Not Judging Gays: Scott Lively on Papal Choice to Say Gay

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Scott Lively 'splains why Pope Francis's choice to say "gay" is bad news for anti-gay Christians who want to deny ...
Thursday, December 29, 2011

Bill Tammeus's Predictions for World of Religion, 2012

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Good for a smile: Bill Tammeus's bold predictions for the world of religion in 2012.
Thursday, December 22, 2011

Advent, Hope, and the Current Situation of the Catholic Church

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I like very much the gist of Maureen Fiedler's review of John Allen's book about U.S. Catholic Bishops Conference president ...
Monday, November 21, 2011

Benedict XVI as Liberation Theologian?: "We Catholics" Aren't Buying It

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Thank you, William Horan, TomC, John Church, Karen52, and many other respondents who join me in objecting to John Allen's recent ...
Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Media Coverage of Finn Indictment: An Authoritarian Culture in Serious Denial

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In a posting yesterday , I linked to A.G. Sulzberger's recent New York Times article about how Catholic pastors in the diocese of...
Saturday, October 8, 2011

John Allen on Religious Freedom: Premier Catholic Concern of 2011

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Remember how, when 2011 began, I started blogging about the sudden discovery of the notion of religious freedom by Catholic pastoral le...