Showing posts with label Minnesota. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Minnesota. Show all posts
Saturday, November 7, 2020

Church Bells Ringing Throughout the World, Horns Honking, Fireworks and People Dancing in the Streets: Celebration of the End of Trump Presidency

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" The Guardian ,  CNN's Van Jones brought to tears as Joe Biden wins US election " Mark Sumner, " America is celebrating ...
Monday, June 1, 2020

Again, Case Study from Minnesota: Bishops Playing Culture-War Games Cannot Effectively Address Real, Pressing Problems Like Racism

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On 23 May , I posted a piece here entitled " As US President Demands That Churches Re-Open, Case Study from Minnesota ." That...
Sunday, May 31, 2020

Reaping the Whirlwind: America Now Confronts the Reality of Its 2016 Election

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People Can Only Bear So Much Injustice Before Lashing Out via @thenation https://t.co/qevqJ0pvk4 — 𝕎𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕒𝕞 𝔻. 𝕃𝕚𝕟𝕕𝕤𝕖𝕪 🌈 ...
Saturday, May 23, 2020

As US President Demands That Churches Re-Open, Case Study from Minnesota

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Thursday, March 19, 2020

My Reflections as Minnesota and Vermont Declare Grocery Clerks Emergency Workers

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Hell yeah, now make it national https://t.co/XEad0wx53j — Clara Jeffery (@ClaraJeffery) March 19, 2020 The people putting their lives ...
Monday, January 20, 2020

Now This in Diocese of Charlotte, North Carolina: "Advocate Wants Former Belmont Abbey Priest Named as Child Sexual Abuser"

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In an article entitled, "Advocate wants former Belmont Abbey priest named as child sexual abuser," Nathan Morabito writes ,  ...
Monday, September 16, 2019

Catholic Bishop of Diocese of Crookston, Minnesota, First to Be Investigated Under New Church Guidelines: A Selection of My Commentary on Crookston Diocese Over the Years

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This could get interesting. https://t.co/zKizQX0SbR — Jennifer Haselberger (@jmhaselberger) September 11, 2019 The bishop of the Ca...
Saturday, July 23, 2016

Documents in Settlement of Curtis Wehmeyer Case Reveal Vatican Interference in Investigation of Allegations about Archbishop Nienstedt's Sexual Improprieties

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WHAT HE'S SAYING : Well, there you have it at the top of this posting. Archbishop Nienstedt's full statement in response to...
Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Jennifer Haselberger's Affidavit in the St. Paul-Minneapolis Archdiocesan Bankruptcy Case: "A Question of Equity and Fairness" Grounded in the Corporatist Tradition of Catholic Theology and Ecclesiology

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Before we left for our recent vacation, I made a promise here, I seem to recall, to read and comment on the 22 May affidavit of Jenni...
Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Jennifer Haselberger: "The Philosophy, the Ideology, Has Always Been to Protect the Assets of the Church" — Not to Respond with Pastoral Concern

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As abuse survivors in Minnesota charge that the archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis is shielding millions of dollars of assets in a ba...
Friday, May 6, 2016

Cousin of John Nienstedt Reports That He Told Nienstedt of Abuse by Nienstedt's Priest-Friend, and Nienstedt Did Nothing: The Unholy Trinity of Lies, Secrets, and Silence

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The story told in the video above is one to which a valued reader of this blog alerted me yesterday. The report is from KMSP (Fox News) i...
Sunday, April 24, 2016

Daily Beast on Jeyapaul Story: "This May Be the Worst Case We’ve Ever Seen. What Does a Priest Have to Do to Get Kicked Out of the Catholic Church?"

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Noting that the Vatican has placed convicted rapist Father Joseph Jeyapaul back into a parish, Barbie Latza Nadeau (and Daily Beast) ...
Thursday, April 21, 2016

Laurie Goodstein on Why the Catholic Abuse Story Remains a Story (and Minnesota Survivor Megan Peterson Files Lawsuit As Her Abuser Father Jeyapaul Is Returned to Ministry)

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Recommended: New York Times reporter Laurie Goodstein's "Times Insider" report today on why the sex abuse story in th...
Friday, February 19, 2016

Abuse Survivor Megan Peterson on Pope Francis's Recent Statement About Holding Bishops Accountable: Actions Talk Louder Than Words

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In what I posted earlier today about Pope Francis's recent statement that a bishop who moves a priest to another parish when a ...
Friday, February 12, 2016

From Bad to Worse in News Of Catholic Abuse Crisis: Vatican Tells Bishops They Don't Have to Report Abuse to Authorities, Indian Bishop Places Criminally Convicted Priest in Ministry

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This week, as Carnival was in full swing in many Catholic regions of the world and as the body of Padre Pio was paraded in Rome in a glas...
Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Footnote to a Footnote: Fixation on Homosexuality in Discussions of Catholic Abuse Crisis, and Questions About Hate Speech

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I'll admit to you all a frustration bordering on peevishness at the way many people in religious circles seem inclined to turn pl...
Friday, January 22, 2016

Footnote to Discussion of St. John's Abbey Story: NCR Thread Filling Up with Homophobic Charges That Catholic Abuse Crisis Is Rooted in Homosexuality

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A footnote about what I posted earlier today regarding the documents just made public by St. John's Benedictine Abbey in Minnes...

St. John's Abbey Releases 15,000 Pages of Disclosure re: 18 Monks: NCR Reader Writes, "To Me, This Story Encapsulates the Entire Scandal"

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Does anyone but me ever have the sense that Catholic pastoral authorities have played and continue playing an ugly game with the rest...
Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Pathology of Internalized Homophobia in Gay-Bashing Catholic Clerics: "How Strange Their Psyches Must Be As a Result...and Sometimes Dangerous As Well"

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The synchonicity of conversations on the worldwide web never fails to intrigue me — discourse community linking to discourse communit...
Monday, September 21, 2015

As Pope Arrives: "Until Francis Gets the House in Order on the Matter of Sexual Abuse of Clergy, All the Other Pastoral and Charitable Efforts of Our Church Are Like Sandcastles"

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Two simple (but are  they simple?) reminders this morning about the abuse situation in the Catholic church, and the imperative need o...