Showing posts with label Pope Francis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pope Francis. Show all posts
Thursday, December 8, 2022

Pope Francis on Women Priests and Related Recent News Items: "I do not know whether to laugh or cry at Pope Francis’ suggestion about women’s position in the Church"

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Altar of Veit Stoss, descent of the Spirit at Pentecost, St. Mary's Church, Krakow, Poland, photo by Robert Breuer at Wikimedia Commons ...
Wednesday, November 16, 2022

In the Midst of Global Catholic Crisis, Look at Whom U.S. Catholic Bishops Choose as Their Leaders

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James Tissot's "Jésus Pleura," Brooklyn Museum, New York, Wikimedia Commons The Catholic church globally is facing the biggest...
Tuesday, November 15, 2022

More Commentary on Situation in French Catholic Church: "Structural 'Implosion" and Pope Francis's Mixed Record

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More commentary on the eye-popping revelation in the French Catholic church that 11 former bishops, some still sitting and others retired, ...
Saturday, October 24, 2020

When the Instinctual Response of Christian Communities to a Changing World Is, No!

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Read the responses of a number of bishops and the homophobic sector of Catholic Twitter to the recently released papal statement about civil...
Thursday, October 22, 2020

"Nobody Should Be Thrown Out": Francis's Latest Shock Wave (in Some Circles) re: Same-Sex Civil Unions

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James Alison, " Pope Francis backing same sex unions isn't a surprise. But it's still a big deal " As Jamie Manson tweets ...
Tuesday, May 12, 2020

German Catholic Bishops on Dismal Failure of Predecessors in Nazi Period; Anne Barrett Doyle on Anniversary of Vos Estis Lux Mundi

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Writing in The Tablet  yesterday, Christa Pongratz-Lippit reports on an in-depth study the German Catholic bishops recently commissi...
Saturday, February 22, 2020

Centering Religion on Possession or Lack of a Penis Seems to Have Some Significant Downsides

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Tina Beattie, "A 'frozen idea of the feminine,"   The Tablet, 20 Feb. 2020 I think this morning of three famous m...
Monday, September 30, 2019

Dominican Priest-Theologian James Alison Receives Affirming Phone Call from Pope: When Will the Call Come for the Rest of Us?

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Pope Francis’ call and respect for Alison’s path rights a major injustice inflicted by the Vatican. It should give all Catholics encourage...
Saturday, April 13, 2019

The Bannon Link: Using Trump Playbook to Attack Pope Francis

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Steve Bannon: If Trump is reelected, the country is going to get "pure Trump off the chain" https://t.co/ItFWWiyOz4 pic.twitte...
Friday, April 12, 2019

More Valuable Commentary on Benedict's Poisonous Letter: Part of a Bigger Initiative of Catholic Right, with Bannon at the Very Center

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Steve Bannon is on a new crusade to reform the Vatican. Critics say he, and a movement, are using the same playbook that helped President ...
Friday, March 8, 2019

The Pell Case, the Continuing Vast Gulf Between What Francis Says re: Abuse and What Really Happens, and the Anger of Catholic People

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How many more mornings will we wake up to read of yet another cardinal convicted by a court? And yet gobs of Catholics still have their cu...
Sunday, February 24, 2019

Frédéric Martel's In the Closet of the Vatican: Valuable Commentary — "A Dishonest System Cannot Demand Honesty"

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I have not read Frédéric Martel's explosive new book In the Closet of the Vatican , about which there has been a flurry of commen...
Wednesday, February 20, 2019

"Everything in This Spreading Crisis Revolves Around Structural Mendacity"; "Poland's Most Senior Nun Has Been Banned from Further Media Contact": Talking Abuse

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Poland's most senior nun has been banned from further media contact after condemning the sexual abuse of religious sisters by Cathol...
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...
Monday, January 7, 2019

Commentary re: Religious Issues, Hot Off Press: Catholic Abuse, Evangelicals & Trump, LGBTQ People & Church, U.S. Catholic Resistance to Pope Francis

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" Whom Would Jesus Shoot? ," Karen Fiorito From the graphic above through the tweets and article excerpts below, some valuab...
Friday, January 4, 2019

Tweets About the Bishops' Retreat: "Secrecy, Hypocrisy, and an Arrogant Refusal to Be Held Accountable"

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Things are likely to be tense when the US Catholic bishops meet at their closed-door retreat near Chicago this week. The credibility of t...

U.S. Catholic Bishops Meet for Prayer-and-Repentance Confab: Some Valuable Responses

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DiNardo, who is credibly accused of declining to report abuse in his own diocese, is currently US Bishops president. @pontifex ’s entire e...
Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Father Tom Reese's Prediction for 2019: Catholic Church Will Loosen Celibacy Requirement for Priests — My Response

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The series that Religion News Service  is now running with predictions of what will happen in the world of religion in 2019...
Saturday, December 22, 2018

Father Prado on Pope Francis: Wants to Deny Access to Priesthood to Gays Because He's Catholic — I Have Questions

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Father Fernando Prado, author of the book  The Strength of Vocation , in which he interviews Pope Francis and gets the pope on record...
Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Why Blaming Gay Priests for Catholic Abuse Situation Will Not Help Anything (Plus News about Cardinal Pell, Anti-Gay Hardliner)

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As I posted my posting two days ago  with an assortment of reports about the sexual abuse of vulnerable people in Christian churches,...