Showing posts with label John Paul II. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Paul II. 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...
Tuesday, March 7, 2023

"Pope St. John Paul II Knew about Sexual Abuse of Children by Priests and Sought to Conceal It": Pope SAINT John Paul II?

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News outlets are now reporting that Polish television broadcaster TVN24 has just aired a report stating that " Pope St. John Paul II kn...
Thursday, February 2, 2023

Report on Jean Vanier: Vanier Founded L'Arche "Primarily as a Cover for a Secretive Religious Sect with Exploitative 'Mystical-Sexual' Beliefs and Practices"

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Photo of Jean Vanier by Kotukaran, at Wikimedia Commons On 30 January, a study commission convoked by L'Arche International to look into...
Tuesday, November 10, 2020

"Pope John Paul II Was Warned about Allegations of Sexual Impropriety by Theodore McCarrick, but Chose to Promote Him": My Response

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Joshua McElwee on Twitter Some headlines today:
Sunday, December 22, 2019

St. John Paul II, Pray for Us! Legionaries of Christ Report Shows Maciel Abused at Least 60 Boys, Abuse Was Rife in the Order

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Sexual abuse of minors was rife among superiors of the Legionaires of Christ, with at least 60 boys abused by its founder Father Marcial M...
Friday, March 22, 2019

More from Frédéric Martel's In the Closet of the Vatican on the Source of Corruption in the Catholic Church: Not Glitches, but a System

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As I keep reading Frédéric Martel's In the Closet of the Vatican , I'd like to say more about the theme of corruption I featu...
Wednesday, March 20, 2019

More on Frédéric Martel's In the Closet of the Vatican: The Dark Heart of Martel's Story — Corruption of Pretend Heterosexuality Coupled with Abominable Treatment of Queer People

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I have now made my way about halfway through Frédéric Martel's In the Closet of the Vatican , trans. Shaun Whiteside (London: Blo...
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...
Wednesday, February 20, 2019

"Everything in This Spreading Crisis Revolves Around Structural Mendacity"; "Poland's Most Senior Nun Has Been Banned from Further Media Contact": Talking Abuse

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Poland's most senior nun has been banned from further media contact after condemning the sexual abuse of religious sisters by Cathol...
Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Two More Valuable Resources re: Opus Dei: Betty Clermont's and Penny Lernoux's Books

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I'd like to add two valuable resources to the primer of books and articles about Opus Dei I posted this past weekend . That primer ...
Saturday, November 17, 2018

Commentary on U.S. Bishops' Meeting: "The Moral Credibility of Catholic Bishops in the United States Is in Tatters"

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Barry Blitt's "Welcome to Congress" cover for New Yorker , 9 November 2018 Now if a knock-off cover could only be prod...
Monday, November 5, 2018

"A Broad, Deep, Clerical Conspiracy" and "Bishop Accountability Has Proved a Contradiction in Terms": More Commentary

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And there's more: here's another diptych from recent commentary that I want to offer for your consideration — about a totally...
Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Commentary: On Youth Synod Opening Door to LGBTQ Community (?!); On Latest McCarrick Revelations; On "Signs of the Times"

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Some meandering thoughts and mini-rants this morning:
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: 
Tuesday, September 11, 2018

On the "Light Handed" St. John Paul the Great and the "Mild" Benedict: Anti-Francis Catholic Right and "Dinesh DeSouza School of Church History"

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Lessons from the 14th Amendment: Every society is built on foundation myths, affirming the righteousness of the National project. But the ...
Saturday, September 8, 2018

Latest Viganò Commentary: "Vatican Receives a Letter in *November 2000* Detailing a Mess of Allegations Against McCarrick. Three Months Later, Instead of Sanctions, St. JPII Gives McCarrick a Red Hat"

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The Viganistas have an obvious timing problem. The secret sanctions was the clever solution to bridging the gap, but it may have been too ...
Wednesday, September 5, 2018

My "Final" Take on the Viganò Narrative: I Am Frankly Not Sure That Catholicism Can Be Cleansed of Hatred of Queer People

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One possible explanation of Pope Francis's silence on Viganò: to respond to the accusations would require him to directly critique the...
Saturday, September 1, 2018

NCR Editorializes: John Paul II "Provided the Model for the Hierarchy's Approach to the Growing Scandal"

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The  National Catholic Reporter has made an editorial statement on the current crisis in the Catholic church following the McCarrick ...
Thursday, August 30, 2018

Footnote to Previous Posting: On John Thavis' Testimony re: How Vatican Press Corps Cheered When Benedict Was Elected

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A footnote to what I posted earlier today providing some recent commentary on the Viganò story: did you notice in the article by Mic...