Showing posts with label clericalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label clericalism. Show all posts
Monday, January 16, 2023

Telling Truth about Benedict's Legacy re: Clerical Sexual Abuse of Minors, and Commentary on Cardinal Pell's Legacy re: Abuse

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Adam Horowitz offers one of the best pieces of commentary  I've seen on how far too many Catholic journalists and academics have chosen ...
Tuesday, November 15, 2022

More Commentary on Situation in French Catholic Church: "Structural 'Implosion" and Pope Francis's Mixed Record

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More commentary on the eye-popping revelation in the French Catholic church that 11 former bishops, some still sitting and others retired, ...
Monday, October 14, 2019

Newman Canonized, and Talk of His Love for Ambrose St. John Rocks the World of Macho-Heterosexist Clerics: My Thoughts

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1/ It has long been a tactic of homophobes to claim that one cannot identify people in the past as gay when they did not identify themselv...
Monday, September 30, 2019

Dominican Priest-Theologian James Alison Receives Affirming Phone Call from Pope: When Will the Call Come for the Rest of Us?

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Pope Francis’ call and respect for Alison’s path rights a major injustice inflicted by the Vatican. It should give all Catholics encourage...
Thursday, August 29, 2019

In Commemoration of Death of Richard Sipe in August 2018, a Revised Copy of "Clerical Spirituality and the Culture of Narcissism"

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A resource I'd like to bring to your attention: in commemoration of the anniversary of Richard Sipe's death on 8 August 2018, t...
Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Tom Doyle on Why Clericalism Is Primary Root of Catholic Abuse Horror Show (Contra Benedict)

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The emeritus pope recently published a statement about the abuse horror show in the Catholic church which makes absolutely no mention at...
Thursday, April 25, 2019

Ruth Krall, "In a Roman Catholic Voice: Clergy and Religious Leader Sexual Abuse of the Laity — A Study Bibliography of Resources"

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L'Osservatore Romano/AP Pool Photo, BXVI's 65th anniversary of ordination, 28 June 2016 Pope Francis (i) with Pope Emeritus Benedi...
Friday, March 29, 2019

Footnote to Story re: Resignation of Chancellor of Catholic Diocese of Charlotte, Mauricio West: The Damage Clericalism Does in the Catholic Church

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As I think about the story I shared with you today — yesterday, it was announced that the chancellor of the Catholic diocese of Charlo...
Thursday, March 14, 2019

The Pell Conviction in Light of Frédéric Martel's Exposé of the Gay "Parish" Inside the Vatican: Twisted Connection of Catholic Officials to Gay Community

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Comment: George Pell thought the boys would never tell. One did - and millions believe https://t.co/jiNu0Ysv2Y — The Sydney Morning Hera...
Sunday, February 24, 2019

Frédéric Martel's In the Closet of the Vatican: Valuable Commentary — "A Dishonest System Cannot Demand Honesty"

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I have not read Frédéric Martel's explosive new book In the Closet of the Vatican , about which there has been a flurry of commen...
Friday, January 4, 2019

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...

Garry Wills on How Celibacy Is Not the Cause of the Sex-Abuse Crisis — The Priesthood Is: "The Priesthood Is Itself an Affront to the Gospel"

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Responding to a prediction by Father Tom Reese that the Catholic church will begin relaxing its celibacy requirement for priests thi...
Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Father Tom Reese's Prediction for 2019: Catholic Church Will Loosen Celibacy Requirement for Priests — My Response

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The series that Religion News Service  is now running with predictions of what will happen in the world of religion in 2019...
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...
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, October 23, 2018

Commentary: McCarrick and Supposed "Gay Clique" in Hierarchy; Homosexuality Not Cause of Catholic Abuse Crisis; When Welcome Doesn't Really Mean Welcome

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Things I've read in the last day or so that I'd like to pass along to you — with themes that, in my view, fit together, so that...
Thursday, September 13, 2018

Joelle Casteix's Clear, Informed Response to Viganò Crowd: Feeds Old Stereotypes, Silences Victims, Minimizes Abuse, Encourages Cover-Up

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Joelle Casteix has written the clearest, most informed response I've yet seen regarding the allegations of Viganò and his followers a...
Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Important Statement from Catholic Women Speak re: "Letter to Pope Francis from Catholic Women": Who's Promoting It and Why

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This is an important statement from Catholic Women Speak  in response to the "Letter to Pope Francis from Catholic Women" bei...
Saturday, September 8, 2018

Latest Viganò Commentary: "Vatican Receives a Letter in *November 2000* Detailing a Mess of Allegations Against McCarrick. Three Months Later, Instead of Sanctions, St. JPII Gives McCarrick a Red Hat"

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The Viganistas have an obvious timing problem. The secret sanctions was the clever solution to bridging the gap, but it may have been too ...
Saturday, September 1, 2018

NCR Editorializes: John Paul II "Provided the Model for the Hierarchy's Approach to the Growing Scandal"

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The  National Catholic Reporter has made an editorial statement on the current crisis in the Catholic church following the McCarrick ...