Showing posts with label Vatican. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vatican. Show all posts
Friday, January 20, 2023

Abusive Anti-Gay French Priest Tony Anatrella Sanctioned by Vatican; Survivors Say They Expected More

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" Catholic Church Tells Bishops They Are Not Obliged to Disclose Child Sex Abuse: Report ,"  Time (11/2/2016) Earlier this week, t...
Wednesday, September 25, 2019

It's Still Going on — Cover-Up of Abuse Is Still Going on — and Catholics Know This, Do not Trust Their Bishops, and Are Withholding Money

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Since some of us recently had a discussion here about Catholics withholding donations to parishes and Catholic institutions because m...
Saturday, July 6, 2019

Ruth Krall, Looking Slant: Oppressive Ideologies and Belief Systems (2)

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Ebola: Transporting a Sick Child to a Care Facility This is the second part of Ruth Krall's essay "Looking Slant: Oppressive...
Monday, December 31, 2018

Michael Sean Winters Asks, "Can the Church Round the Corner in 2019?": My Response

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"Can the church round the corner in 2019?" Michael Sean Winters asks in an end-of-year reflection published today . I conside...
Tuesday, November 27, 2018

"Scapegoating Gay Priests and Pining for a World in Which Most Catholics Agree with Church Teaching on Birth Control Is No Way to Confront the Abuse Crisis"

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It needs to be said again: the call of some Catholic pastoral leaders and of some sectors of the church for "purification" ...
Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Paris Archbishop Upholds Sanctions Against Vatican "Expert" on Homosexuality, Msgr. Tony Anatrella

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A tidbit of news that should not escape our notice as Vigano et al. try to stage a coup toppling Pope Francis, with overt allegations tha...
Sunday, August 19, 2018

As Papal Visit to Ireland Nears, More Commentary on Abuse Crimes in Church: Cover-Up Directed from "Central Command and Control, Which Is the Vatican"

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This is powerful! : Names of 796 Tuam Babies written on white sheets and brought to Galway church #Stand4Truth (via @thejournal_ie ) http...
Saturday, August 18, 2018

Now This: Wuerl Withdraws from World Meeting of Families

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Now there's this: as Patsy McGarry reported several hours ago, Cardinal Wuerl has withdrawn from the World Meeting of Families: A ...

Colm O'Gorman on Wuerl as Keynote Speaker in World Meeting of Families: Will Speak on "Welfare of the Family is Decisive for the Future of the World"

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Read this. This man reappointed known serial child abusers to ministry. Cardinal Wuerl will give the keynote address in the RDS at 2.30pm ...
Friday, August 17, 2018

More Commentary on Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report, as Vatican Sends Thoughts and Prayers

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Elizabeth Bruenig, " Evil walked the earth in Pennsylvania ": That there should be mass defrockings is obvious. That t...
Thursday, August 16, 2018

Valuable Commentary on Pennsylvania Report: "Spokesperson for the Vatican Reached Wednesday Morning Said It 'Has No Comment'"

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Valuable commentary I've read in the past two days about the Pennsylvania grand jury report:
Sunday, August 5, 2018

James Alison on Homosexuality Among the Clergy, the Anatrella and McCarrick Stories, and the Trap of Clerical Dishonesty

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Someone else who understands and has recently commented on the significance of the Anatrella (and McCarrick) story for those trying t...
Saturday, August 4, 2018

The Bigger Picture in Sexual Abuse Stories Inside One Institution After Another: How Does Everyone Know, but Nothing Happens?

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There's a recurring pattern here, isn't there, as if each individual story — spanning different faith communities and o...
Friday, August 3, 2018

Philippe Lefebvre Explains How Anatrella Held On So Long: "If You Are Scared Yourself, You Send in the Dogs. And Anatrella Said Things That Conservative Catholics Like to Hear"

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Here's another piece of valuable commentary to which MarkWilliam has pointed us, which places the current hot attempt of those de...
Thursday, August 2, 2018

Anatrella and the Homophobic Catholic Two-Step: Footnote to This Morning's Posting

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In what I posted earlier today about the Tony Anatrella story, I mentioned to you that MarkWilliam had offered to translate for us a...

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...
Friday, March 9, 2018

Mary McAleese on Catholic Church As "Primary Global Carrier of the Virus of Misogyny" and on Theology Denying Ordination to Women as "Pure Codology"

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This is really Sarasi's post and not mine. In the past two days, she has provided a wealth of links to commentary about the stellar a...
Wednesday, December 20, 2017

"A Living Symbol of the Catholic Church's Tolerance for the Sexual Abuse of Children": Cardinal Law's Legacy Remembered (2)

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Cardinal Law was an evil person. The fact he’s getting a full dignified funeral while the Catholic Church would certainly deny me one for ...

"A Living Symbol of the Catholic Church's Tolerance for the Sexual Abuse of Children": Cardinal Law's Legacy Remembered

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I don't want to see a single reference to Cardinal Bernard Law's death that doesn't reference his central role in exposing chi...
Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Religion (and Politics) Stories in the News: Evangelicals, White Supremacist Marches, Callista Gingrich, Knights of Columbus, Jim Bakker and Antichrist

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Some things I have been reading/listening to/sharing in the past few days, which may interest many of you: