Showing posts with label Knights of Columbus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Knights of Columbus. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 31, 2017

"Trump Administration Is Dismantling Its Predecessor's Moves to Protect Women, Minorities, the Poor, and LGBTQ People": Thoughts About the Morning's News

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David Gushee , "The Most Fantastic Association of Men Imaginable" In one morning, I read (1), The Trump administratio...
Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Religion (and Politics) Stories in the News: Evangelicals, White Supremacist Marches, Callista Gingrich, Knights of Columbus, Jim Bakker and Antichrist

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Some things I have been reading/listening to/sharing in the past few days, which may interest many of you:
Wednesday, May 4, 2016

As Their Party Puts Forward a Reality-Show Star Who Spouts Racism, Misogyny, and Xenophobia, Catholic Bishops Use "Religious Freedom" Video to Attack Hillary Clinton

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Did I just say that the yuuuge affection of large numbers of (white) Catholics in the U.S. for the outright racist (and misogynist a...
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...
Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage 2.0: What Do Fortnights, Marriage Marches, and Vials of Papal Blood Have in Common?

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More birdcage droppings for you today (these are definitely the stinky kind):
Friday, January 24, 2014

Financial Transparency Emerges as Major Theme in St. Paul-Minneapolis Abuse Story: Outstanding MPR Report (and Nicole Sotelo on Knights of Columbus)

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To my mind, one of the strangest claims that apologists for the Catholic hierarchy who want to assist the hierarchy by bashing survivors ...
Monday, December 2, 2013

Parsing Cardinal Dolan: Catholic Hierarchy Losing Marriage Equality Battle Because It's about Morality, Not Money

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The outgoing leader of the U.S. Catholic bishops, His Eminence Timothy Cardinal Dolan, has just observed that the Catholic bishops (...
Monday, December 10, 2012

Faith Seeking Understanding: Catholic Commentary on the State of the Church, Advent 2012

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A Monday-morning smorgasbord of smart, thoughtful statements I've read in recent days about matters Catholic:
Saturday, November 10, 2012

Gerald T. Slevin: About Obama's Papal Victory--Are Bishops and the Pope Now Chastened? Is Constantine's Curse Now Lifted? Are Catholic Children Now Protected?

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Another brilliant posting by Jerry Slevin, which asks what will happen now with the leadership of the Catholic church, after a geo-p...
Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Eugene McCarraher at Commonweal: Leaders of the American Catholic Church and Sickness Unto Death

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During the lead-up to the 2012 elections, why did the leader of the U.S. Catholic bishops, Cardinal Dolan, wail that the White House ...

National Catholic Reporter Editorials on Catholic Winners, Catholic Losers in U.S. Elections

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Two valuable editorial statements from National Catholic Reporter as election day arrives in the U.S.: the first maintains that thre...
Friday, October 19, 2012

Knights of Columbus Back in News: $15.8 Million Spent Since 2005 to Strip Gays of Civil Rights

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Earlier in the week, I excerpted observations from Joanna Brooks's  The Book of Mormon Girl: A Memoir of an American Faith (NY: F...
Tuesday, October 16, 2012

More from Joanna Brooks on the Steep Price of Bigotry

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Another passage this morning from Joanna Brooks's  The Book of Mormon Girl: A Memoir of an American Faith  (NY: Free Press, 2012) com...
Sunday, August 12, 2012

The Paul Ryan Selection and Spectacular Pastoral Failure of U.S. Catholic Bishops

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The New York Times on Romney's selection of Paul Ryan: after weeks of hearing nothing but vague, mendacious, marshmallow blath...
Thursday, July 12, 2012

FBI Releases Report about Penn State Sandusky Cover-up: Top Officials Knew

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The FBI's Freeh report is now telling us that Joe Paterno and Penn State's president Graham Spanier deliberately engaged in ...
Monday, June 25, 2012

The Lynn Conviction in Philadelphia: A Selection of Commentary

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Following the conviction of Msgr. William Lynn in Philadelphia last week for child endangerment, quite a bit of thoughtful commentary...
Thursday, June 21, 2012

In the News: More "Religious Freedom" Shock and Awe from U.S. Bishops, Civil Rights for Gays

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Some news analysis that seems to me worth noting today:
Friday, June 15, 2012

Catholic Identity Again: More on Joan Chittister and Christiane Amanpour

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Benedict and Curia, December 2008 I keep hearing in my head snippets of Joan Chittister's dialogue this week with reporter Chri...