Showing posts with label New Orleans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Orleans. Show all posts
Friday, January 31, 2020

Commentary about the New ProPublica Database of Catholic Priests Across the U.S. "Credibly Accused" of Sexual Abuse

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Ultimately @SNAPNetwork suggests that every diocese lists be made as complete as possible to protect children & give account towards...
Wednesday, September 25, 2019

It's Still Going on — Cover-Up of Abuse Is Still Going on — and Catholics Know This, Do not Trust Their Bishops, and Are Withholding Money

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Since some of us recently had a discussion here about Catholics withholding donations to parishes and Catholic institutions because m...
Monday, December 10, 2018

Abuse of Vulnerable People and Churches: Recent Reports, from Baptists to Nuns Raped by Bishops and Priests to Jesuits to a German Princess Saving the Church

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This is a collection of reports on the abuse situation as it is unfolding in various churches now. These are all recent statements, and...
Wednesday, November 28, 2018

German Catholic Bishops on Abuse: Church Is at "Point of No Return" and Has Been Exposed as "Perpetrator Organization" — What Now?

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Christa Pongratz-Lippitt, " Bishops must open archives to 'independent experts' ":
Sunday, July 15, 2018

A Story of Two Jesuits, with Commentary on the Current State of the Catholic Church (Especially re: LGBTQ People)

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This is a story of two Jesuits. I'm telling it now primarily because news I read about one of the two this week gave me a shock, ...
Thursday, May 31, 2018

In the News: Wendy Vitter Refuses to Affirm Support for Brown v. Board in Federal Judgeship Hearing; Americans Display Appalling Ignorance of History of Evangelicals Vis-a-Vis Slavery

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Two stories in today's news I'd like to share with you, both showing the effects of religious thinking and influence on the p...
Monday, August 24, 2015

Katrina: The Obligation to Remember — "Hurricane Katrina Exposed Our Nation's Amazing Tolerance for Black Pain" (Jamelle Bouie)

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Rebecca Solnit on why we need to get what happened in New Orleans with Hurricane Katrina right: 
Saturday, August 8, 2015

Remembering a Friend on His Birthday: Holiness in Ordinary

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I didn't actually say I wouldn't post this weekend, did I? :) What prompts me to do so today is that today's the birt...
Friday, June 28, 2013

On Archbishop Aymond's Apology for the Catholic Response to Victims of UpStairs Lounge Fire: Conflicting Viewpoints

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I didn't mention this earlier in the week, but some impulse (which may turn out to be one of the lesser angels of my nature) impe...
Monday, June 24, 2013

On This Day in 1973, "The Largest Killing of Gay People in U.S. History": UpStairs Lounge Fire in New Orleans

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Today is the day on which the UpStairs Lounge fire about which I wrote last week took place ( here and here , and don't forget Ki...
Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Julia Moskin on New Orleans's Love Affair with Sugar: Don't Forget Bread Pudding!

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I think Julia Moskin is probably right when she characterizes New Orleans as a city drenched in sugar , and when she attributes the c...
Saturday, January 29, 2011

I Remember John Paul II: The New Orleans Visit

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Have I ever shared my encounter--loosely speaking--with John Paul II?  I don't think so.  Since it may offer comic relief to any reader...
Friday, October 2, 2009

Tom Roberts on Archbishop Tomasi's "Indefensible Defense": Abuse Crisis Is about Clerical Privilege

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More follow-up to the story about Archbishop Tomasi, the Vatican’s U.N. observer, who stated this week that the problem of abuse of minors ...
Monday, August 31, 2009

Hurricane Katrina, Triage, and the Memorial Hospital Story: Ethical Implications for American Health Care

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I have a number of reflections after reading Sheri Fink’s account in the New York Times yesterday of what happened at Memorial Hospital in ...
Wednesday, July 22, 2009

"Charity in Truth": Some Preliminary Reflections on Benedict's Encyclical

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In case readers are wondering, I’m not ignoring the pope’s recent encyclical Caritas in veritate . I was out of the country when it came ou...
Monday, October 20, 2008

Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans

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Steve and I went to the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival with friends on Saturday, and saw an outstanding film that continues to haunt ...
Thursday, August 28, 2008

Respect for Life: The Tragedy in New Orleans

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As the current elections revive the increasingly enervating discussion of the pro-life principles that should guide people of faith as they ...