Showing posts with label Tom Reese. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tom Reese. Show all posts
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...
Friday, April 29, 2016

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: Requiescat in Pace, Ban on Giving Platforms and Honors to People Who Hold Views Contrary to Church Teaching

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In a just-published essay at National Catholic Reporter , Father Thomas Reese calls on Catholic colleges and universities to bury th...
Saturday, April 9, 2016

"There Is Almost Complete Silence on Homosexuality" in Amoris Laetitia: There's Silence and Then There's Silence — Interpreting the Silence of Amoris Laetitia About LGBTQ Lives

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So, silence. What to do about silence? Massimo Faggioli writes about Amoris Laetitia , 
Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Father Thomas Reese on John Paul II As a Loving Grandfather: Whose Experience of the Church Counts, As Pope Francis's Exhortation on the Family Is Published?

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Father Thomas Reese thinks John Paul II came across as "a loving but benighted grandfather." And as I read that baffling o...
Friday, July 17, 2015

Douglas Laycock on U.S. Catholic Bishops and Marriage Equality: "Being on the Losing Side of a Revolution Can Be Very Dangerous for Churches" (the Continuing Ruse of U.S. Catholic Centrism)

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Father Thomas Reese reports today at National Catholic Reporter  that University of Virginia professor Douglas Laycock thinks ...
Friday, January 16, 2015

Tom Reese on Not Hinging Everything on the Pope: "There Is No Room in the Church for Passive Observers" — My Response

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Pope Francis's fellow Jesuit Father Tom Reese writes in the National Catholic Reporter  this morming about how the Catholic chur...
Sunday, September 14, 2014

Jerry Slevin and Tom Reese on Synod on the Family: Shaping Up to Be Disappointment to Those Hoping Laity Will Be Heard

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Tom Reese, one of the pope's fellow Jesuits and his usual strong supporter, says it flatly :
Friday, June 20, 2014

What Do You Do When Everyone Else Throws a Human Rights Party, but Your Church Leaders Pitch a Fit Instead?

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What do you do when you belong — when you chose to belong  — to a church which preaches that every human being deserves human rights,...
Saturday, May 12, 2012

Fr. Tom Reese on Need for Preferential Option for Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse

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Fr. Tom Reese of Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown, former editor of America  magazine, has just made an outstanding address...