Showing posts with label LGBT Catholics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LGBT Catholics. Show all posts
Friday, October 12, 2018

Me, Talking Back to National Catholic Reporter and Michael Sean Winters re: Resignation of Donald Wuerl

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Wuerl hounded from office for becoming face of abuse crisis https://t.co/N2pHeSpgcP via @ncronline "He has been for 30 years a force...
Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Mary McAleese on Synod: "If I Wanted Expertise on the Family, I Honestly Cannot Say That the First Thing That Would Come Into My Mind Would Be to Call Together 300 Celibate Males"

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Mary McAleese, former president of Ireland, commenting recently to a meeting of the Global Network of Rainbow (LGBT) Catholics on the  ...
Saturday, October 3, 2015

Michelangelo Signorile on Amazing Alacrity with Which Vatican Noticed Pushback About Kim Davis Meeting, and on Why This Happened

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Today's a day of non-blogging commitments for me (my supply of popcorn is quickly running out, for one thing), and so I can't...
Friday, October 2, 2015

New Civil Rights Movement Reports: "Kim Davis' Meeting with the Pope Was Arranged – Contrary to Theories Espoused in the Media – by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops"

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Yvette Schneider writes ,  The New Civil Rights Movement has learned through a source within the Apostolic Nunciature, the Vatica...

News Flash: Pope Met Gay Friend While on American Tour

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Wow. They're really in damage-control mode today. What that tells us is how much the pushback regarding the meeting with Kim Davis ...

Mary Dispenza's Powerful Memoir SPLIT: Moving from Childhood Rape by a Priest to Catholic Institutional Abuse As a Lesbian — "I Can Live with the Consequences of Love"

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On the day that news broke of the pope's meeting with Kim Davis, I was finishing Mary Dispenza's painful, liberating account of...

Barbie Latza Nadeau on Vatican "Clarification" of Pope's Meeting with Kim Davis: "Pope Doesn’t Say 'Stay Strong' to Just Everyone He Meets"

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At Daily Beast, Barbie Latza Nadeau is right on target with her assessment of today's Vatican (non-) statement about what the pope ...

Papal Meeting with Kim Davis: Vatican Doing Damage Control, But Unanswered Questions Galore Remain

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So the hugely damaging fallout from the pope's meeting with Kim Davis has now provoked an unusual response-retraction of sorts  fro...
Thursday, October 1, 2015

Why the Pope's Meeting with Kim Davis Is the Last Straw for Me: With Commentary on Father James Martin's "Points to Keep in Mind" About the Meeting

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Several days back, I received an email from America Magazine  asking me to contribute financial support to America  as a member of th...
Friday, September 18, 2015

New York Catholic Pastor Reports Meeting with Pope Francis, in Which Pope Says, "I Would Love to Visit and Talk to Gay and Lesbian People and Please Tell the Gays to Pray for Me"

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Kira Brekke reports at Huffington Post today on a report provided by Father Gil Martinez, pastor at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle ...
Thursday, September 17, 2015

The Francis Effect: Putting Rhetoric Together with Reality on Eve of Pope's Visit (2)

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Note: this article is part two of a two-part series. The first part of this article is here . The Francis effect ? Anecdote #1: M...
Wednesday, February 13, 2013

For LGBT Catholics, Will It Get Better After Benedict? An Ash-Wednesday Meditation

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A question pulling at my heart as the initial fanfare about Benedict's resignation announcement dies down: for LGBT Catholics, wi...
Tuesday, November 6, 2012

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...