Showing posts with label Wisconsin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wisconsin. Show all posts
Saturday, April 18, 2020

Wisconsin as Worst Place to Be Black in US and Recent Voting Débacle: These Are Related, in a State Whose Citizens Are a Quarter Catholic

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Take a cue from Wisconsin voters who stuck it out during a torrential rain & hail storm to make sure the Republican judge lost his se...
Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Quote for the Day: Queer Catholics Once Again Reminded "That, in Both Life and in Death, They Can Be Shunned by Their Church"

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Carol Kuruvilla, " Queer Catholics In Wisconsin May Be Denied Religious Funerals To Avoid 'Public Scandal '" At H...
Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Race Matters: As White Supremacists Robocall Wisconsin, Discussion of "Hidden" GOP Racism Continues to Come Out into the Open with Trump Candidacy

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As anyone with eyes open has seen for years now in the American political context, the Republican party has long used racial resent...
Thursday, September 3, 2015

Must-Reading As Papal Visit Nears: The Economist on "Unholy Mess" of Finances in U.S. Catholic Church

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For anyone asking why so many Catholics have walked away and continue to do so despite the "Francis effect"; for those with...
Friday, August 21, 2015

Tom Doyle on Hypocrisy in Spades in Milwaukee Settlement with Abuse Survivors

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Today's National Survivor Advocates Coalition News features an op-ed piece by Tom Doyle entitled "Milwaukee: Hypocrisy in Sp...
Thursday, February 19, 2015

Henry Giroux on Politics of Disposability and Violence: Implications for the Orchestrated Attack Now Underway on Gay Citizens of U.S. after 2014 Elections

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Henry A. Giroux writes, regarding the wild success of "American Sniper," the latest shoot-'em-up movie glorifying macho A...
Friday, June 27, 2014

As Same-Sex Couples Bring Children for Baptism, How Will Church Respond: Purity Code or Love, Justice, and Mercy?

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Here's an example of what I meant when I just wrote , "The testimony of the prophets is very clear about these issues: love,...
Monday, June 9, 2014

Further Updates, Same-Sex Marriage in Arkansas: Democrat-Gazette Publishes Rejoinder to Jason Rapert, and On Marrying Where We Live

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Last week, I expressed doubt about whether my state's newspaper of record, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette , would publish Judge W...
Saturday, June 7, 2014

Wisconsin Judge Crabb to Defenders of Traditional Marriage: You Do Understand That Polygamy Is the Tradition You're Defending, Right?

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Federal Judge Barbara Crabb in her ruling yesterday  (pdf file) striking down the Wisconsin ban on same-sex marriage:
Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Milwaukee Archdiocese Opens Abuse Files: Letter from Dolan Speaks of "Improved Protection" of Diocesan Funds as Survivors Come Forward

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Yesterday, the archdiocese of Milwaukee, previously headed by the current president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Cardin...
Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Abuse Survivors and Their Allies Remember Benedict's Legacy: "Failed to Achieve," "Words Rang Hollow," "Never Once Contacted, Spoke To, or Apologized," "Did Not Do Enough"

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And it's not merely LGBT Catholics and their allies (I'm referring to my previous posting ) who see Benedict's legacy in ...
Monday, February 4, 2013

Andrew Sullivan on Mea Maxima Culpa Documentary: Real Church Is on the "Very Margins of the Margins"

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In two statements at his Daily Dish site today, Andrew Sullivan reflects on Alex Gibney's documentary "Mea Maxima Culpa: Sile...

Peter Isely on Systemic Roots of Catholic Clerical Sexual Abuse of Minors

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Thursday, January 31, 2013

Trailer for "Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God" Documentary

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International Spotlight on Abuse in Catholic Church: More on Philadelphia, HBO Documentary about Wisconsin, Jerry Slevin's Petition to President Obama

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Important news in the ongoing (and now international) battle to hold the leaders of the Catholic church accountable for covering up c...
Saturday, November 17, 2012

Alex Gibney's "Mea Maxima Culpa" and Defrocking of Catholic Hierarchy

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I linked yesterday to Andrew O'Hehir's review of Alex Gibney's HBO documentary "Mea Maxima Culpa" without comm...
Tuesday, April 7, 2009

The Ruth Kolpack Case: What's at Stake, Morally Speaking?

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As I noted yesterday in my final posting about the case of Ruth Kolpack and Bishop Robert Morlino ( here ), it is interesting to watch the r...
Monday, April 6, 2009

Inversion of Values and Gay Employees in Churches and Church Institutions: Ongoing Injustice

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I want to add a brief coda to what I posted earlier today about the case of Ruth Kolpack ( here ). In that posting, I noted that it is typi...

Inversion of Values: Reflections on the Firing of Lay Catholic Catechist Ruth Kolpack by Bishop Robert Morlino

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A case in Wisconsin involving a lay Catholic pastoral associate, Ruth Kolpack, is gaining national attention. As Mike Sweitzer-Beckman repo...