Showing posts with label Patricia Miller. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Patricia Miller. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Commentary: Political Fall-Out as Catholic Bishops Face Reckoning for Covering Abuse Crimes; German Catholic Discussion of Bible and Homosexuality

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More commentary today that catches my attention, and is especially interesting when read side by side:  Patricia Miller, " I...
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,...
Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Mary Hunt and Patricia Miller on Why U.S. Bishops Have Blown Abortion Out of Proportion: A Reminder About Why Many Catholics No Longer Listen

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Mary Hunt's reminder here, by way of Patricia Miller's book Good Catholics: The Battle Over Abortion in the Catholic Church , ...
Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Patricia Miller on Catholics Driving Exodus of Nones, Kaya Oakes on How Nones Aren't Coming Back — And Why Should They, Considering What the Church Is Offering?

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Two more helpful pieces of commentary on the recently published PRRI report about why Americans (and especially younger ones) are le...
Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Francis Effect for Gay* Folks? Still Elusive, As Bishops Around Globe Throw His Harsh Words in Faces of Gay* People

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Yesterday, I drew your attention to a just-published essay by Patricia Miller  which suggests that the U.S. Catholic bishops have done...
Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Patricia Miller on Why White Catholics of the John Paul II Church May Be Rejecting Donald Trump: "Seems Awfully Quiet in the Catholic Trenches This Year"

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In a just-published essay at Religion Dispatches ,  Patricia Miller takes a sharp look at the discernible trend of white Catholics t...
Friday, June 24, 2016

Commentary on U.S. Catholic Bishops and "Religious Liberty" Crusade As "Fortnight for Freedom" Begins: "Fair to Say Religious Liberty Has a Damaged 'Brand' These Days"

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This week, the U.S. Catholic bishops began their latest "Fortnight for Freedom" shindig, whose purpose is  to drive Catholic ...
Monday, June 20, 2016

"They Put Us in Closets and Do All They Can to Keep Us There": More on the Catholic Erasure of LGBTQ People from the Narrative About Orlando

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"Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy takes the rest of the week." - Alice Walker — Broderick Greer (@BroderickG...
Monday, May 16, 2016

Want to Know Why "Pro-Life" Democrats Are Vanishing Breed? Go See "Spotlight," Fred Clark Advises: On the Catholic Bishops, the Culture Wars, and Mr. Trump

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Want to know why the "pro-life" Democrats have vanished, Fred Clark asks ? And then he recommends: "Go see 'Spotligh...
Friday, April 22, 2016

Patricia Miller on Firing of Tony Spence: Reveals Just How Cynical U.S. Catholic Bishops' Manipulation of Principle of "Religious Freedom" Really Is

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As with all she writes, Patricia Miller's take on the recent firing of Catholic News Service's Tony Spence is illuminating:...
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...
Friday, January 22, 2016

Recommended: Joe Biden on LGBT Rights, Catherine Wallace on Gay Marriage and Anglican Anxiety, Patricia Miller on What Pope Benedict Knew When

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God bless Joe Biden (the section I've transcribed from his recent remarks at the World Economic Forum begins at about the 1.55 mar...
Thursday, January 14, 2016

More Commentary on Frederick Clarkson's New Essay about Religious Freedom: Patricia Miller and Bill Berkowitz

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More valuable commentary today about Frederick Clarkson's report on religious freedom  entitled "When Exemption Is the Rule:...
Thursday, December 17, 2015

Belmont Abbey College in National News Again: Claims Catholic "Right-to-Discriminate" Title IX Exemption Targeting Transgender Students and Staff

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I have shared with you the story of how a Catholic college in North Carolina owned by a Benedictine community destroyed my career as ...
Thursday, September 17, 2015

The Francis Effect: Putting Rhetoric Together with Reality on Eve of Pope's Visit (1)

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On the eve of Pope Francis's visit to the U.S., I've been collecting information that, to my way of thinking, provides somethin...
Friday, May 22, 2015

Patricia Miller's Takeaway re: Recent Pew Study Showing U.S. Catholic Church in "Demographic Free-Fall," with Notes about Recent Débacle re: LGBT Youth Conference in Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis

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As I noted last week , the most recent Pew Research Center "Religious Landscape" report  on the state of religious affiliat...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

Patricia Miller on Who Was Not at Georgetown Confab on Poverty, and William Greider on Recent IMF Banking Conference: Difference Women's Voices Make

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Everywhere I turn online today the news at religion and religion-and-politics websites is the recent panel discussion at Georgetown o...
Friday, May 1, 2015

Things I'm Reading at Week's End: Marriage, Bible, Catholics, Women's Rights, Recovering from Religious Trauma, Pope Francis and Women

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Things I'm reading as this week ends — these items all connected in that they talk about issues of religion in the public square:
Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Patricia Miller on Pope Francis's Breeding Bunnies Remark: Challenging the "Breath of Fresh Air" Spin

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I like how Patricia Miller calls the bluff of all the adulatory (heterosexual, male, married) Catholic journalists who have been try...
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Patricia Miller on What the U.S. Bishops Have Wrought, Michael Sean Winters on USCCB Meeting, James Carroll on Francis Effect

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Recent commentary that has caught my eye, about various Catholic issues: