Showing posts with label artificial contraception. Show all posts
Showing posts with label artificial contraception. Show all posts
Friday, November 1, 2019

If I Were a Young Person Seeking a Church Home for Myself, Why Would I EVER Want to Consider a Church in Which….

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If I were a young person seeking a church home for myself, why would I EVER want to consider a church in which
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, August 14, 2018

Revisiting Cahill and Wilkinson's Child Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church As Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report Is Released

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Dallas Morning News , June 2002 This is a posting from this blog dated 20 October 2017 that I'd like to re-post this morning, as ...
Friday, October 20, 2017

Cahill and Wilkinson's Child Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church: "Most Comprehensive Report Ever Published on the Systemic Reasons Behind Child Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church"

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Several days ago, when I blogged about Desmond Cahill and Peter Wilkinson's study Child Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church: An ...
Monday, October 9, 2017

Cahill and Wilkinson's Child Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church on How Humanae Vitae Undermines Sexual Ethic of Catholic Church

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As a complement to what I just posted about how the U.S. Catholic bishops and Republican party brought right-wing white evangelicals ...

How Right-Wing White Evangelicals Fixated on Birth Control and Abortion: Answers from Tara Isabella Burton, Fred Clark, and David Gushee

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Mike Pence protests NFL protest, but stays silent on white supremacist rally https://t.co/Vee4E9rGnr pic.twitter.com/vPmWuIFNZQ — Think...
Thursday, September 14, 2017

Faith Defined as Dogma Is Weaponized Faith: A Theological Footnote to Father Jenkins' Response to Senator Feinstein re: Catholic Dogma

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I'd like to add a theological footnote to what I posted yesterday reflecting on the recent claim of Notre Dame University presid...
Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Notre Dame President Father Jenkins Responds to Senator Feinstein: "'Dogma Lives Loudly' . . . Is a Condition We Call Faith" (But No, It's Not)

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At a hearing last week, Senator Diane Feinstein grilled federal judge nominee (and Notre Dame University law professor) Amy Coney Ba...
Monday, October 24, 2016

Archbishop Charles Chaput Attacks Joe Biden and Tim Kaine, Shills for GOP with Call for "Silent Apostates" to Leave Catholic Church

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David Gibson writes , 
Thursday, September 29, 2016

Question "What Is Church For?" Emerges Again with Polling Data About Who Supports Trump and Who Thinks Anti-Gay Discrimination Should Be Allowed If Business Owners Cite Religion

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Johann Baptist Metz,  "Communicating a Dangerous Memory" For your consideration:
Saturday, September 24, 2016

Wijngaards Declaration: Catholic Scholars Respond to Humanae Vitae on Use of Contraception — Implications for Gay Catholics

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As the fiftieth anniversary of the Catholic encyclical Humanae Vitae , which reiterated the Catholic magisterium's ban on the use...
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 ...
Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Supremes Hand Zubik v. Burwell Mess Back to Little Sisters of the Poor, U.S. Catholic Bishops, and Obama Administration: Good Commentary

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Andrew Glass, " Supreme Court Upholds Segregation, May 18, 1896 , "  Politico As the Supremes hand the Zubik v. Burwell ...
Monday, May 16, 2016

Want to Know Why "Pro-Life" Democrats Are Vanishing Breed? Go See "Spotlight," Fred Clark Advises: On the Catholic Bishops, the Culture Wars, and Mr. Trump

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Want to know why the "pro-life" Democrats have vanished, Fred Clark asks ? And then he recommends: "Go see 'Spotligh...
Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Not Voting When the Supreme Court Hangs in the Balance? Not Morally Defensible — A Response to Anderson Cooper and Others Who Choose Not to Vote

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Powerful image of Susan B. Anthony's gravestone from today's NY primary pic.twitter.com/SnS8MtQ97X — Adam Blickstein (@AdamBlicks...
Friday, April 15, 2016

Three More Takes on Amoris Laetitia: Danger of Continuing "Toxic Patterns of Dissemblance at Every Level of Church Life" As Poison Enters the Church's Bloodstream

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Peter Steinfels at Commonweal : 
Monday, April 11, 2016

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "When Cardinals Say That Church Teaching Can Only Be Further Developed but Not Changed They Are Playing a Power Game"

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I'm glad to see this insightful comment by reader rdp46 featured today at National Catholic Reporter  as the top comment in res...
Thursday, March 31, 2016

Again with the Claim that Critics of Catholic Bishops' "Religious Freedom" Crusade Use Scare Quotes to Attack Religious Freedom: Michael Sean Winters' Continued Misrepresentation of Discussion of Bishops' Betrayal of Religious Freedom

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As I've noted previously , National Catholic Reporter 's Michael Sean Winters just doesn't get it when it comes to unders...
Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Supremes Hear Zubik All-or-Nothing "Religious Liberty" Arguments: Commentary Worth Noting

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The Supreme Court hears arguments this morning in the case of Z ubik v. Burwell.   At issue in this case: a number of religious group...
Wednesday, March 9, 2016

A Footnote to Previous Posting: Trump's Appeal to White Catholic Voters Demonstrates Colossal Pastoral and Intellectual Failure of U.S. Catholic "Leaders"

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To put the point of my previous posting very succinctly: the people who profess to "lead" the U.S. Catholic church — its bishops...