Showing posts with label Vatican II. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vatican II. Show all posts
Monday, February 10, 2020

The Holocaust and Christian Theologies of Sin and Forgiveness: Imperative Need for Christians to Listen to Jews

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Elizabeth Johnson, The Quest for the Living God (London: Bloomsbury, 2007) Ruth Krall's recent sounding of various ecclesial resp...
Monday, November 5, 2018

"A Broad, Deep, Clerical Conspiracy" and "Bishop Accountability Has Proved a Contradiction in Terms": More Commentary

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And there's more: here's another diptych from recent commentary that I want to offer for your consideration — about a totally...
Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Joanna Moorhead in The Guardian on Pope's Letter re: Sexual Crimes of Clergy and Cover-up by Church Officials — "[H]ow Dare You Ask Ordinary Catholics Like Me to Atone?"

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Joanna Moorhead for The Guardian   on papal letter about clerical abuse crimes and their cover-up by church officials :
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:
Monday, July 13, 2015

How the Confederate Battle Flag Is Like the Tridentine Mass: What Sister Never Knew and Father Never Told You Speaks Out

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At the What Sister Never Knew and Father Never Told You site , blogger Consolamini minces no words as he compares the Confederate bat...
Monday, July 21, 2014

Robert Blair Kaiser's Inside the Jesuits: How Pope Francis Is Changing the Church and the World — Jesuit DNA and the Papacy

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Some weeks back, Rowman & Littlefield kindly sent me for review a copy of Robert Blair Kaiser's book Inside the Jesuits: How ...
Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Hans Küng's Can We Save the Catholic Church? on Anti-Vatican II Decision of John Paul II and Benedict XVI to Wage War Against Secular Culture

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Three more passages from Hans Küng's book Can We Save the Catholic Church? (London: William Collins, 2013) that leap out at me a...
Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Hans Küng, Can We Save the Catholic Church? Casts Cold Eye on "Monstrous Triumphant Rallies Staged for the Predecessors of Pope Francis"

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In his book Can We Save the Catholic Church? (London: William Collins, 2013) Hans Küng casts a very cold eye on the massive PR-savv...
Monday, June 9, 2014

Hans Küng, Can We Save the Catholic Church?: Küng's Diagnosis of a Church Sick Unto Death

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I'm nearing the end of Hans Küng's book Can We Save the Catholic Church?  (London: William Collins, 2013), about which I beg...
Friday, June 6, 2014

Hans Küng, Can We Save the Catholic Church?: An Excerpt re: President George W. Bush and Pope Benedict XVI

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I've mentioned in the comboxes here in the past several days that I'm now reading  Hans Küng's new book Can We Save the ...
Sunday, April 27, 2014

The Day of the Four Popes: Pope Francis and the Reform (??) of the Church

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The day of the four popes , they're calling it .
Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Catholic Moral Theologian Lisa Fullam: An Argument for a Catholic Moral Obligation to Support Civil Marriage for Same-Sex Couples

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At Bondings 2.0, Catholic moral theologian Lisa Fullam  takes a careful look at the U.S. Catholic Bishops' argument that Catholic...
Wednesday, February 5, 2014

United Nations Releases Scathing Report on Handling of Abuse Crisis by Catholic Authorities

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The United Nations Committee on Protection of the Rights of the Child has now released its report  (pdf file) following the Vatican...
Monday, January 20, 2014

Two Video Discussions of Pope Benedict's Defrocking of 400 Priests Who Had Abused Minors: "They've Been Kicked into Society with No Repercussions Whatsoever"

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Two video interviews discussing the AP report that, in 2011 and 2012 Pope Benedict defrocked some 400 priests who has abused children: ...
Sunday, January 5, 2014

Another Prediction for 2014: Talk of the Dying of Catholicism Even as Lay-Led Catholic Movements Flourish

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Another prediction I'd be willing to go out onto a limb and make as the new year begins: we will be hearing more in this year abo...
Friday, September 20, 2013

Catholic Ethicist Daniel Maguire on Pope's Interview as End of the Catholic Church's "Pelvic Zone Orthodoxy"

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Catholic ethicist Daniel Maguire on Pope Francis's comments in the interview released yesterday:

My Theological Reflection on Pope Francis's Jesuit Interview: "God Is Encountered Walking, Along the Path"

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Where is God?
Friday, September 6, 2013

Richard Sipe on Culture of clerical Narcissism, Eugene Kennedy on Francis and Mount Hierarchicus, Joan Chittister on Mary and Women Religious

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Frank Douglas has uploaded an important article to his Voice from the Desert website. It's a well-documented multi-part study en...
Sunday, July 7, 2013

Eugene Kennedy on John Paul II's Beatification: The Saint Who Kept Looking Away (A Re-Posting)

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I published this piece back in January 2011 . With the announcement this past week by Pope Francis that he is moving the canonization...
Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Reforming the Catholic Church Today: Three Perspectives

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Steve's surgery seems to have gone well, and he has spent the day sleeping. Thank you, all who have asked about this and have tol...