Showing posts with label Oscar Romero. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oscar Romero. Show all posts
Monday, May 23, 2016

Quote for Day: "Liberal Christians Often Pay Lip Service to Many Politically Radical Christian Thinkers and Activists While Lining Up Behind the Political and Economic Forces That They Fought Against"

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At Religion Dispatches , Daniel José Camacho responds to a recent article at the same venue by Ruth Graham which argues that liberal...
Saturday, May 23, 2015

As Catholic Ireland Votes for Human Rights for a Minority, Martyr for Those on the Margins, St. Oscar Romero, Is Beatified

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And, as long as I'm sharing postings I've made this morning on Facebook and Twitter, here's another I'd like to share w...
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: John Dear on Nonviolence As Call for Everyone, Matthew Pulver on U.S. Complicity in Assassination of Oscar Romero

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Father John Dear on the . . . odd and capricious . . . way in which mainstream news commentators chide protesters in places like Bal...
Monday, July 8, 2013

The Construction of Saints: For Whom Is a Particular Saint (e.g., John Paul II) Made?

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In her book Saints and Postmodernism: Revisioning Moral Philosophy (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago, 1990), Edith Wyschogrod writes:
Sunday, July 7, 2013

E.J. Dionne on Francis's Decision to Canonize JPII and John XXIII: "One for One Side, One for the Other" and Why Centrists Drive Me Up a Wall

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E.J. Dionne's statement at Commonweal  right now about the "saintly politics" Pope Francis is ostensibly using as he c...
Thursday, March 24, 2011

Remembering Oscar Romero: God Hears the Cries of the Poor

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  Today is the anniversary of Oscar Romero's assassination in 1980.  Since several readers have mentioned in comments here lately that t...
Sunday, March 20, 2011

One More Piece Worth Reading Now: Michael Sean Winters on Obama's Visit to Romero's Tomb

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In my posting earlier today, I provided a link to a posting at Jayden Cameron's Gay Mystic blog with a video of a recent performance i...
Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Oscar Romero to the U.S. Catholic Bishops: Now is the Time to Recover Your Consciences

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Today is the anniversary of Oscar Romero’s martyrdom.  And I am thinking of the words he spoke in his final homily the day before he was sh...
Friday, January 29, 2010

John Paul II’s Penitential Practices and Competing Narratives about Sanctity in the Postmodern Church

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There was a time, before the Second Vatican Council prompted religious congregations to return to the charisms of their founders, when prac...
Monday, March 30, 2009

John Paul II and the Unfinished Eucharist of Oscar Romero: Questions for the Church in Our Day

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It’s my birthday, and I may let my heart out today. I keep it so often in a box. I’m sitting in Steve’s chair facing the south window of th...
Wednesday, July 23, 2008

On Clericalism: A Response to Alipius

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*Alipius, I apologize for the tardy reply. I was traveling yesterday, and had no opportunity to think about or compose a reply adequate to y...
Tuesday, June 3, 2008

And the Pilgrimage Continues

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Readers, brothers and sisters on the journey with me, thank you for your patience during the few days I have been silent. I appreciate the ...