Showing posts with label Peter Steinfels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Peter Steinfels. Show all posts
Monday, January 14, 2019

This Has Happened: What to Make of Recent Chain of Events from Opus Dei-McCloskey to Cardinal Burke to Peter Steinfels to Archbishop Viganò?

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So this has happened: 1. Jan. 7: Washington Post breaks Opus Dei-McCloskey story. 2. Jan. 8: Cardinal Burke mounts an attack on Pope F...
Saturday, January 27, 2018

It's Never About Racism: White Catholic Voters, Abortion, and How the Religious Right Culture Wars Began (Hint: It's About Racism)

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In 1958, Jerry Falwell wrote the following: “When God has drawn a line of distinction, we should not attempt to cross that line,” and s...
Sunday, December 18, 2016

Where Do Christians Go From Here? When "Pro-Life" Christianity Deals Death, Time to Turn Our Backs on the "Pro-Life" Game

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4 in 5 white evangelicals, 3 in 5 white Catholics and Mormons — "pro-life" voters — brought us the Trump nightmare. I will no...
Wednesday, December 14, 2016

When Toxic Religion and Toxic Politics Meet to Create a Death Cult of Historic Proportions: Where Do Christians Go From Here?

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Any political movement that is anti-women anti-poor anti-Muslim anti-LGBTQ anti-immigrant anti-refugee is anti-human and anti-Chr...
Friday, April 15, 2016

Three More Takes on Amoris Laetitia: Danger of Continuing "Toxic Patterns of Dissemblance at Every Level of Church Life" As Poison Enters the Church's Bloodstream

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Peter Steinfels at Commonweal : 
Tuesday, February 23, 2016

In Catholic News: Smoke, Mirrors, and Pope Francis on Abuse; Pope's Zika-and-Contraception Remark; Diocese Settles with Employee Fired for Same-Sex Marriage; U.S. Bishops' College Plans to Fête Archbishop Viganò

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Some bits and pieces of commentary that has caught my eye in recent days, which I want to pass on to you. These snippets are all comm...
Friday, April 10, 2015

Update, Further Commentary, on Recent Firing of Gay Teachers at Two Catholic High Schools in Midwest

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And another brief update to a story I posted yesterday — this one about Matthew Eledge, who was recently fired by Skutt Catholic Hig...