Showing posts with label discrimination. Show all posts
Showing posts with label discrimination. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 16, 2020

George Floyd Killed by Police, Catholic Bishops' President Takes Six Days to Speak; Supreme Court Forbids Workplace Discrimination Vs. LGBTQ People, USCCB Instantly Finds Its Voice

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Police kill George Floyd, Archbishop Gomez responds six days later; SCOTUS files a ruling about LGBT people, Gomez responds six hours late...
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
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...
Tuesday, October 8, 2019

Jeff Chu on Meeting the Woman Who Fired Him Because He Was Gay: Valuable Twitter Thread for #RiseUpOct8

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The US Supreme Court will hear arguments this week on whether LGBTQ people are protected by existing anti-discrimination law. I've bee...
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...
Monday, September 16, 2019

Catholic Bishop of Diocese of Crookston, Minnesota, First to Be Investigated Under New Church Guidelines: A Selection of My Commentary on Crookston Diocese Over the Years

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This could get interesting. https://t.co/zKizQX0SbR — Jennifer Haselberger (@jmhaselberger) September 11, 2019 The bishop of the Ca...
Tuesday, September 3, 2019

Wendell Griffen, "Standing with Elaine"

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With the permission of my friend Judge (and Reverend) Wendell Griffen, I'd like to share with you a statement he has made recently o...
Thursday, July 18, 2019

I Refuse to Hate: People of Faith Challenge GOP Racism, or What's Wrong with the U.S. Catholic Bishops?!

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Chris Morley comments on Bilgrimage,
Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Margaret Renkl on Obligation of Catholics to Defend Their LGBTQ Brothers and Sisters — Even Against Archbishops

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Margaret Renkl, " How to Defy the Catholic Church: Believers have a spiritual obligation to defend their L.G.B.T.Q. brothers and sis...
Saturday, June 29, 2019

Indianapolis Archbishop Claims Firing of Gay Employees Necessary to Address "Public Situations": My Response

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Masha Gessen, " Coming Out, and Rising Up, in the Fifty Years After Stonewall ," on the Supreme Court ruling in Bowers v. Ha...
Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Caleb Crain: Gay-Panic Defense Began to Be Challenged When Gay People Were Permitted to Write about Anti-Gay Crimes — Implications for the Catholic Media

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A seed of change, however, was finally planted in the late nineteen-fifties, when the gay community began to write about such crimes thems...

John Gehring on Why Catholic Bishops Need a Year of Abstinence on Preaching about Sexuality

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John Gehring, " Why Catholic bishops need a year of abstinence on preaching about sexuality ":
Monday, June 24, 2019

"Indescribable Cruelty": Commentators on the Concentration Camps Now Being Operated by the United States Under Donald Trump

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7/ For 10 years, not one migrant child died in U.S. government custody. Since September, at least 6 kids have died in the custody of DHS...

WaPo: Indianapolis Diocese Threatens "To Strip Away Catholic Identity" from Schools "That Employ People Who Are Not Heterosexual"

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The statement I've underlined from this Washington Post article will be challenged. People will say this is not about punishing sch...
Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Frédéric Martel on the Tragedy That Is the Pastoral Career of Joseph Ratzinger — A Tragedy for the Entire Church

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From Frédéric Martel, In the Closet of the Vatican , on the tragedy of Joseph Ratzinger's (Benedict XVI's) pastoral career: ...
Thursday, March 7, 2019

Connections: UMC Hardening vs. Queer People to Catholic School Barring Child of Gay Couple to Failure of Utah Bill Outlawing "Conversion" Therapy to "Pro-Life" Administration Caging Children

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I offer you today these selections from items I have been reading lately, because — to my way of thinking, and I am hoping you'll a...
Friday, February 22, 2019

Belmont Abbey, Where I Met Waterloo as a Theologian, Back in News: Two Abbey Priests Who Served at the College Appear in List of Accused Priests — Footnote

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An important note about the story I tell today in my blog posting linked below: even as Catholic institutions in the 1990s knew of the gro...

Belmont Abbey, Where I Met Waterloo as a Theologian, Back in News: Two Abbey Priests Who Served at the College Appear in List of Accused Priests

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Readers of this blog who have followed it for any length of time will know the story of how my career as a Catholic theologian and th...
Friday, January 18, 2019

Celebrating Mary Oliver & Asking: Do We Want to Be the Kind of People Celebrating Mary Oliver, or the Kind Celebrating Karen Pence & John Finnis?

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That's the big question, the one the world throws at you each morning, "Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?...
Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Why Blaming Gay Priests for Catholic Abuse Situation Will Not Help Anything (Plus News about Cardinal Pell, Anti-Gay Hardliner)

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As I posted my posting two days ago  with an assortment of reports about the sexual abuse of vulnerable people in Christian churches,...