Showing posts with label Legionaries of Christ. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Legionaries of Christ. Show all posts
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...
Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Bob Cesca on Fox News's Defense of Duggars as "Harrowing Turning Point in Our Discourse" — and Father Jonathan Morris's at Fox News's Defense of Duggars

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Yesterday, I pointed you to a thought-provoking article by Andrew O'Hehir which argues that it's through public conversatio...
Thursday, March 13, 2014

Irish Television Documentary on Maciel and Legion of Christ, and the Francis Effect: What Difference Is Francis Really Making?

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John XXIII knew.
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...
Saturday, January 25, 2014

National Catholic Reporter Calls for Criminal Investigation of Legion of Christ--"An Agency of Almost Unimaginable Fraud"

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National Catholic Reporter 's editorial calling for criminal investigation of the Legion of Christ minces no words. An edit...
Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Date Set for Canonizing John Paul II: We Are Church Responds

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Pope John Paul II and Father Marcial Maciel Pope Francis announced yesterday that he Popes John XXIII and John Paul II will be cano...
Monday, September 16, 2013

Matthew Fox, Letters to Pope Francis: On the "New" Evangelization

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More excerpts from Matthew Fox's book Letters to Pope Francis : in an important letter in the book, Fox discusses the "new...
Sunday, July 7, 2013

Eugene Kennedy on John Paul II's Beatification: The Saint Who Kept Looking Away (A Re-Posting)

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I published this piece back in January 2011 . With the announcement this past week by Pope Francis that he is moving the canonization...
Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Revelations from Legionaries of Christ Documents in Rhode Island Trial: Implications for Upcoming Papal Election

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John Paul II and Father Marcial Maciel Yesterday, I wrote ,
Monday, February 18, 2013

Archbishop Georg Gänswein and Benedict's Fixation on Rehabilitating SSPX, Benedict and Immunity from International Prosecution: What's Going on in the Vatican?!

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Follow the Money To be frank, I am not particularly interested in Vatican chit-chat. It seems far removed from my tiny little lif...
Thursday, November 29, 2012

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "Running the Slur Piece" about Fox News Priest "Beneath Contempt"

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National Catholic Reporter does take heat from some Catholics for circulating fact-based stories about how some American Catholics d...
Saturday, November 3, 2012

Gerald T. Slevin: Is Pope Leading a New "Children's Crusade" to Help Romney Win?

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Another outstanding piece this morning by Jerry Slevin.  In this essay, Jerry sketches the historical and political background to the ...
Friday, June 22, 2012

More End-of-Week News: Maciel and John Paul II, Bayard Rustin, and Crisis of Democracy

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I apologize that I'm a bit pressed for blogging time today, as I prepare for a day trip to chase down some information for the bo...
Friday, June 15, 2012

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? The Vatican's Current Turmoil

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In Der Spiegel , Fiona Ehlers, Alexander Smoltczyk, and Peter Wensierski chronicle the astonishing turmoil now taking place inside th...
Wednesday, May 23, 2012

More on Father Williams and Damage to Legionaries of Christ Credibility, and Bishops and Contraception

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Two articles today that continue stories about which I've blogged of late:
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "A Prophetic Voice Is Needed to Shake People out of Their Moral Lethargy"

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Eerie, isn't it, to re-read Legionary of Christ and teacher of moral theology, Father Thomas Williams now , in retrospect, on issue...
Thursday, May 17, 2012

SNAP Responds to Story of Legionary of Christ Priest Thomas Williams

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Barbara Blaine of Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests has released a press statement about the story of Legionary of Christ...
Wednesday, May 16, 2012

The Catholic Let's-Pretend Game and Legionary of Christ Priest Thomas Williams

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About the let's-pretend game-playing that seems to be working with ever diminishing effectiveness for the Catholic magisterium and ...
Friday, May 11, 2012

Chaput Cleaned up the Legionaries, but He Didn't Clean Them up? Please Explain.

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Maybe someone can 'splain this to me like I'm a two-year old:
Saturday, April 30, 2011

Cardinal Angelo Sodano on John Paul Beatification: Shut Up about the "Peripheral Issues" of the Abuse Crisis

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Here's another indicator (to me) that makes the upcoming beatification of John Paul II sickening: