Showing posts with label Robert Mickens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robert Mickens. Show all posts
Monday, January 16, 2023

Telling Truth about Benedict's Legacy re: Clerical Sexual Abuse of Minors, and Commentary on Cardinal Pell's Legacy re: Abuse

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Adam Horowitz offers one of the best pieces of commentary  I've seen on how far too many Catholic journalists and academics have chosen ...
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 ...
Thursday, August 2, 2018

Ecclesiastical Censure of Tony Anatrella: "All Those Religious Officials with Responsibility to Hear This Case in Paris and Rome Have Known the Facts about Anatrella for at Least Two Decades"

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In comments here in the past two days, Sarasi and MarkWilliam both noted that they had not seen news* of the recent censure of the infl...
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...
Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Robert Mickens on Bread, Circuses, and Dressed-Up Enbalmed Corpses for the Year of Mercy (and John Allen's Counter-Analysis)

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Robert Mickens on bread and circuses (and dressed-up enbalmed corpses) for the Year of Mercy:
Tuesday, April 14, 2015

More Notes on the Vatican's Refusal of the Appointment of the Gay French Ambassador: Who Might Be Doing What to Whom

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As I said several days ago when I last spoke about what's being reported re: the French government's appointment of Laurent ...
Saturday, January 10, 2015

Gerald Slevin on Pope's Pivot on Rumors of a Vatican Council: Now or Never

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In a new posting at his Christian Catholicism site , Jerry Slevin cites a recent observation by Robert Mickens:
Monday, October 6, 2014

Pope Francis and Synod: Coercive Top-Down Model of Church, or Consensual Bottom-Up Lay-Dominated Model? Recent Analysis Worth Reading

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The synod on the family opened in Rome yesterday, and as this gathering begins, journalist Robert Mickens states, in an interview with ...
Friday, February 15, 2013

Illinois Catholic Laity Reject Bishops' Lead about Marriage Equality, Robert Mickens on Benedict's Resignation, Rachel Maddow on Hubris and Iraq War

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End-of-week news items that I couldn't shoehorn into other postings today, but which strike me as eminently worth paying attentio...
Monday, November 26, 2012

Matters Catholic: Church "Implosion," Cost of Clothing Cardinals, Sociopathic Lack of Empathy of Many Church Leaders, Cost of Anti-Gay Attacks by Hierarchy

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A number of very good articles (and a video) today, all having to do with Catholic news stories: Robert Mickens on the implosion of the g...