Showing posts with label Michael Sean Winters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michael Sean Winters. Show all posts
Saturday, January 19, 2019

Kentucky Catholic Students at Pro-Life March Mock Native Americans; Michael Sean Winters Chides Catholics Lukewarm to Pro-Life Movement — Side-by-Side Stories

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After Michael Sean Winters shook his finger at liberal Catholics for being insufficiently pro-life as the March for Life was staged, will ...
Monday, December 31, 2018

Michael Sean Winters Asks, "Can the Church Round the Corner in 2019?": My Response

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"Can the church round the corner in 2019?" Michael Sean Winters asks in an end-of-year reflection published today . I conside...
Monday, September 17, 2018

Once Again: Catholic Journalists Pushing Back Vs. Viganò's False Claims Are Not Pushing Back Vs. His Homophobia — See Austen Ivereigh's Recent Tweet re: Mary Hunt

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In my last posting , I shared a Twitter conversation I had several days ago with Catholic Democrats. It was about his claim that ther...
Sunday, August 26, 2018

Michael Sean Winters on the Coup Attempted by Viganò & Cronies: "Francis Did Act" & "Vigano Is More Than a Little Obssessed with Homosexuality"

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I appreciate Colleen and Sarasi for pointing to Michael Sean Winters' statement today on the attempted coup staged by Viganò and ...
Saturday, January 27, 2018

It's Never About Racism: White Catholic Voters, Abortion, and How the Religious Right Culture Wars Began (Hint: It's About Racism)

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In 1958, Jerry Falwell wrote the following: “When God has drawn a line of distinction, we should not attempt to cross that line,” and s...
Monday, January 8, 2018

No Cake for the Gays and the Libertarian + White Catholic + White Evangelical Erosion of Civil Rights for All Minorities: Truth-Telling about Having Your Cake and Eating It, Too

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All these pieces fit together:  Jeffrey S. Trachtman, " Preserving LGBTQ Equality In The Supreme Court: No Piece of Cake ...
Friday, December 15, 2017

Not Even Close: Knowing Exactly Who Roy Moore Is, Majority of White Alabamians — and White Evangelicals Overwhelmingly — Tried to Put Him in Senate

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8 in 10 white evangelicals & 6 in 10 white Catholics & Mormons elected Donald Trump, claiming "pro-life" motivation. ...
Thursday, December 14, 2017

Hot Takes on Moore Defeat: White Evangelicals Did It! It's All About Abortion! (And Why Masterpiece Cake Will Likely Prevail)

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Some takes on the Alabama election I should have anticipated, but did not: 1. Though 80 percent of white evangelicals in Alabama  cas...
Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: Catholic Church Cannot Alter Teaching on Marriage Because "There Is Explicit Teaching Over Centuries"

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Michael Sean Winters writes that the Catholic church cannot alter its teaching on marriage because, "On marriage, there is explic...
Friday, June 17, 2016

In Post-Orlando Discussion of Religion and Homophobia, "Liberal" Catholics at NCR and Commonweal Once Again Fail to Meet the Mark

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As I just noted , the problem queer people face in challenging religious believers to understand the barbarism, the utter cruelty, of...
Monday, May 23, 2016

More Commentary on Pope Francis and Women Deacons: Jamie Manson and Mary Hunt — "He Believes That God Simply Cannot Work Through the Female Body in the Way in Which God Works through the Male Body"

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Here are two more pieces of good commentary I'd like to recommend to you, regarding the discussion of the possibility of studying...
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...
Thursday, March 31, 2016

Again with the Claim that Critics of Catholic Bishops' "Religious Freedom" Crusade Use Scare Quotes to Attack Religious Freedom: Michael Sean Winters' Continued Misrepresentation of Discussion of Bishops' Betrayal of Religious Freedom

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As I've noted previously , National Catholic Reporter 's Michael Sean Winters just doesn't get it when it comes to unders...
Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: Why Trump Keeps Winn Despite Crystal-Clear Evidence of Growing Violence Among His Supporters

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Michael Sean Winters on how no amount of reporting on the growing violence at Trump rallies will deter Trump voters — rather, it spu...
Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Anthony Annett and Patrica Miller Respond to Catholic Neocons Calling on Catholics to Stop Trump: "These Issues Are All—to Coin a Phrase—Non-Negotiable"

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At Commonweal , Anthony Annett responds to the appeal of Catholic neocons Robert George and George Weigel to Catholics to stop Dona...

Racism Is Not a Non-Negotiable: White Catholic Voters and Trump, Responsibility of the U.S. Bishops and Catholic Neocon and Centrist Lay Leaders

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And so who's voting for Donald Trump in the primaries now being held around the country? The "surprising" (but entire...
Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Goldie Taylor Notes Rise of New Dixiecrat Voters with Trump, Michael Sean Winters Attributes White Catholic Defection from Democratic Party to Anything But Racism

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Goldie Taylor comments on how Donald Trump represents the rise of New Dixiecrats whose geographic range is not confined to the Ameri...
Saturday, January 9, 2016

Michael Sean Winters on Bishops' Treatment of LGBT People: "Affirmation of the Dignity of Gays and Lesbians Is Usually More Rhetorical Than Real"

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Several days ago, when I took note of National Catholic Reporter columnist Michael Sean Winters' soft selling of a statement by...
Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: Firing of LGBT Employees in Catholic Institutions — Welcome? What Welcome?!

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In an essay published yesterday by National Catholic Reporter , Michael Sean Winters quotes approvingly a statement by Washington, D...
Thursday, December 3, 2015

Paul Vallely and Patricia Miller on the Pope's Failure in Africa: "How Gays Are Treated Is Fundamental to the Future of the Universal Church"

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I am not by any means the only person giving testimony about how Pope Francis's silence regarding the threat to LGBT lives in Afr...