Showing posts with label Marcial Maciel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marcial Maciel. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 16, 2022

In the Midst of Global Catholic Crisis, Look at Whom U.S. Catholic Bishops Choose as Their Leaders

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James Tissot's "Jésus Pleura," Brooklyn Museum, New York, Wikimedia Commons The Catholic church globally is facing the biggest...
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, August 30, 2019

"George Pell AC (born 8 June 1941) Is an Australian Cardinal of the Catholic Church and Convicted Child Sex Offender": Questions We Might Ask

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Plus ça change : for people who profess to be all about taking history and tradition seriously, many self-professed Catholic conserva...
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 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 ...
Wednesday, August 29, 2018

For All You Folks Suddenly Discovering There's Corruption Reaching to the Papacy — Because Vigano Has Told You So — Let Me Tell You About Maciel and John Paul II

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1) For all you folks suddenly discovering there's corruption in the church reaching to the papacy — because Vigano has pointed this ou...
Friday, February 10, 2017

Steve Bannon's Thick Ties to Cardinal Raymond Burke and Trumpist Catholicism: Recent Commentary

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Since last October, When the BuzzFeed site provided a transcript of Steve Bannon's statements to a Vatican conference organized ...
Friday, January 22, 2016

Recommended: Joe Biden on LGBT Rights, Catherine Wallace on Gay Marriage and Anglican Anxiety, Patricia Miller on What Pope Benedict Knew When

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God bless Joe Biden (the section I've transcribed from his recent remarks at the World Economic Forum begins at about the 1.55 mar...
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...
Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Matthew Fox on Benedict XVI (in Introduction to Norbert Krapf's Catholic Boy Blues): Suggestions for a Retreat for the Pope Emeritus

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I'm doing a lot of reading lately, and it occurs to me to share the fruits of that labor with you by way of snippets from things ...
Saturday, April 26, 2014

Colleen Baker on Opus Dei's Spin-Doctoring of John Paul II's Record, Father Tom Doyle on What John Paul Knew When

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At her Enlightened Catholicism site , Colleen Baker points out that the Vatican spin doctors who are now trying to spin Pope John Pau...
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.
Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Liberation Theology Founder Gustavo Gutiérrez on Legacy of Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI: "Ratzinger Was More of a Theologian"

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The Iglesia Descalza blog offers an English translation of an interview with the founder of Latin American liberation theology, Gus...
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...