Showing posts with label Matthew Fox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Matthew Fox. Show all posts
Saturday, August 27, 2016

Where Have All the Christian Intellectuals Gone? (Does Anyone Remember John Paul's and Ratzinger's Purge of Catholic Theologians?)

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It's a thing now among journalists and religion commentators to ask what has happened to the public intellectuals of the churches...
Monday, November 16, 2015

bell hooks on Worship of Death As Central Component of Patriarchal Thinking: The Events in Paris and Our Response to Them

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On my retreat the last two weeks, I read bell hooks' book All About Love: New Visions  (NY: William Morrow, 2000). The following ...
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 ...
Monday, June 2, 2014

Rebecca Solnit on Struggle to Name the Significance of Isla Vista Shootings as "Watershed Moment in the History of Feminism"

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In yesterday's New York Times , Charles Blow continues the post-Isla Vista drumbeat of insistence that men, all men, need to fac...
Thursday, October 24, 2013

More (and Final Installment) from Augustine Thompson's Biography of Francis of Assisi on Francis and Gender

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As I've said previously , I'm intrigued by the number of times Augustine Thompson's new biography of Francis of Assisi  s...
Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Open Letter to Pope Francis and Cardinal-Advisors from For Christ's Sake: "All Catholics Have the Right, Innately Deriving from Our Baptism, to Have an Effective and Deliberative Voice"

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More on the discussion of the agenda of reform that many lay Catholics hope the current pope has begun to undertake with the assistan...
Monday, October 7, 2013

Matthew Fox, Letters to Pope Francis: "It Is Essential to Talk of Women's Rights"

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Throughout his book Letters to Pope Francis , theologian Matthew Fox points out that one of the major gifts to the church of the sain...
Thursday, October 3, 2013

Matthew Fox, Letters to Pope Francis: "Let's Be Honest--Francis Never Attended a Seminary"

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On this feast day of St. Francis of Assisi, another excerpt from Matthew Fox's book Letters to Pope Francis :

Pope Francis and Theology of Women: Overcoming Us-Them Imagination in Catholic Clerical Structure's Understanding of Women

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In a posting at the Commonweal  blog site two days ago, theologian Lisa Fullam suggests that those who want to help Pope Francis bet...
Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Jeff Sharlet on Ditto Boys: Laying Bare the Ideology of Male-Bonded Obedience in New Religious Movements Like the Fellowship and Opus Dei

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In the excerpt from his letter to Pope Francis on "new evangelization" that I featured yesterday , Matthew Fox maintains th...
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...
Saturday, September 14, 2013

Matthew Fox, Letters to Pope Francis: The Name Francis and Stories about Fathers

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Another excerpt from Matthew Fox's book Letters to Pope Francis : in the opening chapter of his book, Fox explores the promise he ...
Friday, September 13, 2013

Matthew Fox, Letters to Pope Francis: On Homosexuality

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I've begun reading Matthew Fox's recent book Letters to Pope Francis , and thought it might be helpful to readers if I posted...
Sunday, September 1, 2013

Kiva, Strathmore University, and Opus Dei: The Rest of the Story (Up to the Present)

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So here's an update about what has been happening in the discussion of the choice of Kiva, a charitable non-profit that claims to s...
Monday, August 5, 2013

Matthew Fox to Pope Francis: "With All My Heart I Hope Your Papacy Is One of Compassion in Its Fullest and Richest Meanings"

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Matthew Fox Theologian (and former Catholic priest) Matthew Fox writes Pope Francis an impassioned, theologically rich open letter in ...
Thursday, February 21, 2013

Matthew Fox on Benedict's Legacy and the Necessary Destruction of the Imperial Church

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Last week, Rob Kall of OpEd News's Up Radio interviewed Dominican theologian and former Catholic priest Matthew Fox regarding the...