Showing posts with label USCCB. Show all posts
Showing posts with label USCCB. Show all posts
Sunday, December 18, 2022

Recent Religion + Politics Commentary: "Pro-Life" Movement, Christian Nationalism, Southern Baptists and United Methodists, Leonard Leo and New USCCB President

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Here are some valuable articles I've read in the past week or two about religion and politics and their intersection:
Thursday, December 1, 2022

As Respect for Marriage Act Passes Senate, Religious Groups (Even Mormons) Support it — But Not U.S. Catholic Bishops

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PRRI, " New Survey Shows Strong Support for LGBTQ Rights Championed in the Equality Act " As the Respect for Marriage Act gained S...
Saturday, November 26, 2022

Commentary on Respect for Marriage Act and How Religious Groups — Notably, U.S. Catholic Bishops — Are Dealing with This Issue

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PRRI, " Support for Nondiscrimination Protections for LGBTQ People, by Religious Affiliation, 2015-2021 " An offering of interrela...
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 "JΓ©sus Pleura," Brooklyn Museum, New York, Wikimedia Commons The Catholic church globally is facing the biggest...
Friday, December 11, 2020

Open Sedition from Their "Pro-Life" Party and an End-of-Office "Killing Spree": US Catholic Bishops Turn Their Big Guns vs. Hymn "All Are Welcome"

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Well, at least the US Catholic bishops are no longer babbling on about and pretending that all are welcome.
Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Robert P. Jones's Commentary on the "Historical Record of Lived Christianity in America," White Supremacy, and the Recent Sojourners DΓ©bacle

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An important contribution (and subtext) of Robert P. Jones's new book White Too Long is its focus on how white Christianity is lived in...
Tuesday, June 16, 2020

George Floyd Killed by Police, Catholic Bishops' President Takes Six Days to Speak; Supreme Court Forbids Workplace Discrimination Vs. LGBTQ People, USCCB Instantly Finds Its Voice

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Police kill George Floyd, Archbishop Gomez responds six days later; SCOTUS files a ruling about LGBT people, Gomez responds six hours late...
Thursday, July 18, 2019

I Refuse to Hate: People of Faith Challenge GOP Racism, or What's Wrong with the U.S. Catholic Bishops?!

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Chris Morley comments on Bilgrimage,
Sunday, January 6, 2019

As U.S. Bishops (Some of Them) Pray Together, Twitter Comments: "Through It All, and Still Today, the Bishops Have Attempted to Deflect Blame for the Crisis Onto Others"

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Demonstrators lined up outside a Catholic bishops' retreat in suburban Mundelein to protest church officials’ handling of sexual abuse...
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, November 28, 2018

Breaking News: Authorities Raid Offices of Galveston-Houston Catholic Archdiocese

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A significant footnote to what I posted earlier today about how Catholic pastoral leaders have moved beyond the point of no return with ...
Saturday, November 17, 2018

Commentary on U.S. Bishops' Meeting: "The Moral Credibility of Catholic Bishops in the United States Is in Tatters"

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Barry Blitt's "Welcome to Congress" cover for New Yorker , 9 November 2018 Now if a knock-off cover could only be prod...
Tuesday, November 6, 2018

With the Catholic Bishops, It's Always Someone Else's Sin That's Responsible for the Abuse Crisis: A Response to the Bishops' Prayer-and-Fasting Regime

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During the next seven days, bishops across the U.S. will dedicate themselves to intensified prayer and fasting. We pray for victims of cl...
Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Commentary: On Youth Synod Opening Door to LGBTQ Community (?!); On Latest McCarrick Revelations; On "Signs of the Times"

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Some meandering thoughts and mini-rants this morning:
Friday, October 12, 2018

Me, Talking Back to National Catholic Reporter and Michael Sean Winters re: Resignation of Donald Wuerl

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Wuerl hounded from office for becoming face of abuse crisis https://t.co/N2pHeSpgcP via @ncronline "He has been for 30 years a force...
Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Crux on Cardinal McCarrick's "Sexually Deviant Behavior": U.S. Catholic Church Continues to Be Unsafe for LGBTQ People

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I went to bed last night more than a little troubled by something Crux  reporter Christopher White states in his report on a presentatio...
Friday, August 17, 2018

USCCB, Delete Your Account: Lay Catholics Respond to Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report

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USCCB, delete your account. https://t.co/dkvQTJPfiO — πš†πš’πš•πš•πš’πšŠπš– 𝙳. π™»πš’πš—πšπšœπšŽπš’ (@wdlindsy) August 16, 2018
Monday, September 12, 2016

U.S. Commission on Civil Rights: "Religious Liberty Was Never Intended to Give One Religion . . . Veto Power Over the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties of Others"

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Anne Hilt, "Religious Freedom' Means Putting LGBT Americans Back in the Closet" Martin R. Castro, chairman of the U.S. ...
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 ...