Showing posts with label conscience. Show all posts
Showing posts with label conscience. Show all posts
Thursday, April 16, 2015

Pharmacist in Georgia Refuses to Fill Doctor-Prescribed Medicine to Complete Miscarriage: Why We Need to Keep Thinking about "Religious Freedom" Legislation

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Here's a story that illustrates (for me, at least) why I think it's worthwhile to keep ranting about "religious freedom...
Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: Mother Jones Article about Hobby Lobby Not Gotcha Journalism — It's Just Journalism

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At Commonweal , Grant Gallicho responds to Margaret O'Brien Steinfels's claim  that the Mother Jones   article about Hobby ...
Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "We Need to End the World View That Structures Reality into Higher and Lower"

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What would cause a Jesuit priest who is nearing the age of 80, who has been a Jesuit for 45 years and who has served as a provincial ...
Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Pope Francis on Primacy of Conscience in Christian Life: Implications for Catholicism in the Public Square

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In the two items I've posted this morning, I've alluded to comments that Pope Francis made this past Sunday in his Angelus re...

Readers Write: "The Moral Authority of Cardinal Dolan? Really?"

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As I just wrote , wouldn't it be grand, as the new pope talks about the supremacy of conscience in the Christian life and our o...

Quote for the Day: What's Most Despicable about Cardinal Dolan's "Improved Protection" of Church Assets (and of Abusive Priests)

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Mary Elizabeth Williams at Salon  on what's despicable about Cardinal Dolan's letter to the Vatican asking permission for the ...
Tuesday, April 9, 2013

And Then There Were Three: The Three Democratic Holdouts on Marriage Equality and the States' Rights Argument

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The four have now become three : of the four diehard holdouts among Democratic senators opposing marriage equality, Senator Johnson o...
Thursday, March 21, 2013

Catholic Rhetoric about Abortion and Serving the Common Good: A Reflection on Bill Tammeus's Recent NCR Article

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Yesterday, Bill Tammeus posted an essay at National Catholic Reporter  about the issue of abortion and Catholic magisterial teaching...
Wednesday, March 6, 2013

"Conscience-Protection" Bill Filed vs. Affordable Care Act: The Face of the Catholic Church in the U.S. Public Square

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Mark Pattison of Catholic News Service reports at National Catholic Reporter  about a "conscience-protection" bill just intr...
Thursday, February 14, 2013

If I Could Tweet: The Danger of Marriage Equality to Tender Consciences of Florists

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One of the things I love about many right-wing Christians of late is their growing deep compassion for florists and florists' t...
Tuesday, February 5, 2013

On Father Tony Flannery's Silencing: More Resources

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A week ago, I reported on the recent Vatican actions against Irish Redemptorist priest Father Tony Flannery. For those who want to c...
Monday, January 28, 2013

Father Tony Flannery Speaks Out about Vatican Action Against Him

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In what I just posted , I noted the current Vatican disciplining of Irish Redemptorist priest Tony Flannery. A week ago, Fr. Flannery...
Sunday, July 1, 2012

The Mormon Moment: Romney Candidacy and Emergence of Liberal Reaction within Mormonism

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The story about which I just blogged--the firing of Catholic teacher Trish Cameron in Moorhead, Minnesota, because she dared to write...

Catholic Teacher in Crookston, Minnesota, Diocese Fired for Supporting Marriage Equality

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Among many disturbing aspects, the one I find most mind-boggling in this story of the firing of a Catholic teacher in Moorhead, Minn...
Thursday, March 15, 2012

Get Out the Popcorn: USCCB Announces Intent to Continue Theater of Absurd

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Get out the popcorn and pull up a chair, folks: looks as if the theatrics will be continuing. As Fr. James Martin and Grant Gall...
Thursday, March 8, 2012

Catholic Diocese of Sacramento Defunds Homeless Ministry: Director Supports Marriage Equality and Is Pro-Choice

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And finally this morning, in the religious-freedom-not-so-much category, yet another piece of evidence that, for the current leaders ...
Friday, February 24, 2012

On Religious Freedom, Conscience, and the Gospels: Recent Discussions in Media

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At the Nation , Jessica Valenti agrees with Sarah Posner (in a Salon piece to which I linked yesterday ) that the American political an...
Friday, February 17, 2012

Two Pictures, Two Thousand Words: Congressional Hearing on Religious Liberty

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As Pema Levy notes at Talking Points Memo today, the picture at the head of the posting is from yesterday's Congressional hearing...
Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Contraception Debate Aftermath: Teachable Moment for American Catholicism (If We Choose to Listen and Learn)

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While Arianna Huffington reminds Huffington Post readers that there's more to be discussed in the world of politics right now th...
Sunday, February 12, 2012

Fred Clark on People Who Don't Listen to Women (and the U.S. Bishops' Real Agenda)

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Fred Clark thinks  that people who work themselves into an entrenched pattern of not listening to women often foolishly miscalculate ...