Showing posts with label National Catholic Reporter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label National Catholic Reporter. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Robert P. Jones's Commentary on the "Historical Record of Lived Christianity in America," White Supremacy, and the Recent Sojourners Débacle

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An important contribution (and subtext) of Robert P. Jones's new book White Too Long is its focus on how white Christianity is lived in...
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 ...
Sunday, January 13, 2019

Front Page News Today in Charlotte, North Carolina: "PRIESTS ACCUSED OF SEX ABUSE — The Charlotte Diocese Has Not Released Lists"

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On the front page of today's Charlotte Observer : a headline reading, "PRIESTS ACCUSED OF SEX ABUSE," with a notice that th...
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, November 5, 2018

"People Who Are Most Likely to Appear in These Kinds of Stories Are the Least Likely to Have a Say in How Those Stories Are Told": Lessons for Catholic Media Reporting on LGBTQ Community

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A diptych for you today — news commentary dancing two-by-two which, in my view deserves to be highlighted, and which illuminates, I thi...
Saturday, November 3, 2018

National Catholic Reporter Addresses Wave of Catholic Hate Against Queer Community: My Response — Listening Means Listening

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The hatred is breathtaking. Online and in person. I've been a Jesuit 30 years and it was only this year that I've had people (lit...
Friday, October 12, 2018

Me, Talking Back to National Catholic Reporter and Michael Sean Winters re: Resignation of Donald Wuerl

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Wuerl hounded from office for becoming face of abuse crisis https://t.co/N2pHeSpgcP via @ncronline "He has been for 30 years a force...
Friday, March 16, 2018

More on Catholic Schools and National Walkout: "Unfortunately, Some of the Sponsors of the National School Walkout Advocate for Positions That Are Contrary to the Church’s Teachings"

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Two PA Catholic Schools to Pray Instead of Protest in Walkout Over Gun Violence https://t.co/wNaYKEaXgh — Fox News (@FoxNews) March 14, ...
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...
Monday, November 6, 2017

Why Do Many of Us Feel "Impotent Helplessness" in Face of Cultural Violence? A Reflection (Implicating the Churches)

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In both of the postings I've made this morning in response to the Texas mass shooting yesterday (God, how glibly that ugly phrase...
Thursday, October 5, 2017

Las Vegas Story: Google Finds Itself Gamed Again by Organized Hate Groups (Back to the Case of Father Martin and Church Militant)

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On 21 September, I presented you with a series of screenshots showing you that on that day at about 2 P.M. CST (in the U.S.), the thre...
Monday, October 2, 2017

Back from Trip, Thinking About American Catholicism, the "Both-Sides" False Equivalency Argument, and Ethics of Survival

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I'm sorry to have been silent for a week. Steve and I spent last week in New Orleans visiting friends and family, and as we did so,...
Saturday, August 12, 2017

National Catholic Reporter Calls for Dialogue on Sexual Ethics: My Response

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My new denomination hosted the counter protest in C'ville; my old one is still complaining about women getting to use birth control...
Wednesday, May 31, 2017

National Catholic Reporter: "Describing the Trump Administration as "Pro-Life" Drains the Expression of Any Meaning" (But Wait: NCR Is Saying This?)

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Describing the Trump administration as "pro-life" drains the expression of any meaning . This is a very fine line in the Na...
Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Moira Weigel on How the Right Invented Phantom Enemy of Political Correctness and Gave Us Trump (with Complicity of "Liberal" Elites)

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Moira Weigel in The Guardian on how the right invented the phantom enemy of "political correctness," how leading U.S. inte...
Monday, November 21, 2016

As Trump Presidency Is Normalized in Mainstream and Religious Media, Attempts Underway to Sanitize White Evangelical, White Catholic, Mormon Vote for Trump

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The attempt to normalize Donald Trump and his presidency is well underway, and anyone following the trajectory of the mainstream (and...
Tuesday, September 20, 2016

No, Trevin Wax, Genesis Creation Accounts Aren't About "Family Structure" — And, Yes, Polygamy (with Concubinage and Slavery) Is the Default Notion of Marriage for Eons in the Old Testament

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As I've mentioned to you previously, I find myself in this pre-election season spending more and more of my online time sharing i...
Tuesday, August 30, 2016

National Catholic Reporter Announces It Will Restrict Its Commenting Services, Due to "Dramatic Increase in Trolls and Disruptive Comments"

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Last week, I pointed you to some valuable (and worrisome) commentary about how trolls are trashing open discussion spaces online and...