Showing posts with label divorce. Show all posts
Showing posts with label divorce. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Questions from a Ewe Responds to Archbishop Chaput About Excluding the "Irregular" from the Sacraments: "Here's What I Suggest. Walk Up to Your Local Priest and Ask about His Sex Life"

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In recently published commentary on Archbishop Chaput's newly released guidelines to deal with "irregularities" in disp...
Saturday, October 24, 2015

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: Wafers for Repentant Divorced and Remarried Folks, No Wafers for Any Gays in Loving, Committed Relationships

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Talk about plain weird. What a snapshot of the Catholic "mind" — that is, of the mentality of some Catholics regarding thei...
Thursday, October 22, 2015

Notes from the Synod: "I’m Astonished That Many People Talk about Doctrine without Knowing What Doctrine Is," Or, Implications for the Future When Stupidity and Venality Carry the Day

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At Commonweal , Grant Gallicho reports on statements made yesterday by German Cardinal Reinhard Marx at a Vatican press briefing abo...
Wednesday, October 14, 2015

As Talk of Mercy Continues in Rome, U.S. Archbishop Restricts Communion to Righteous, Another Gay Employee of a Catholic Ministry Is Fired, Etc.: There's the Church World, and Then There's the Real World

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I wrote yesterday that while the men in Rome are nattering on about mercy and fashioning a church that's a field hospital for th...
Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Why I Keep Asking Where Francis Effect Is for Marginalized Catholics: Pretending Is Never Way to Build a Healthy Anything

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When I keep asking where the Francis effect is for various groups of marginalized Catholics (like the black Catholics about whom Anth...
Thursday, September 17, 2015

The Francis Effect: Putting Rhetoric Together with Reality on Eve of Pope's Visit (2)

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Note: this article is part two of a two-part series. The first part of this article is here . The Francis effect ? Anecdote #1: M...
Saturday, March 28, 2015

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "Shouldn't the Synod Documents Label Couples Using Birth Control As 'Wounded'?"

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Patrick T. Reardon commenting in National Catholic Reporter on the strange (and more than a little biased) way in which the final st...
Thursday, January 29, 2015

Jerry Slevin on Pastoral Treatment of Divorced and Remarried Catholics, and Popes Benedict and Francis: Which Pope Is Infallible?

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In a recent posting at his Christian Catholicism blog , Jerry Slevin points readers to William McDonough's Commonweal essay about...
Thursday, November 20, 2014

Theologian José Arregi on Synod on Family: Was It Worth It?

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At her Iglesia Descalza site , Rebel Girl offers a translation of commentary on the synod on the family by Basque theologian José Arre...
Friday, October 31, 2014

Synod on Family: Commentary by Juan José Tamayo, Jamie Manson, and Frank Brennan — "Trying to Confine the Genie to the Episcopal Kitchen"

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As another work week ends, a round-up of several more statements about the recent Catholic synod on the family well worth reading:
Sunday, October 26, 2014

Towards the Next Synod: Jerry Slevin on What Pope Francis Needs to Do If He's Really Serious About Reform

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At a discussion thread here earlier today, some of you may have seen that I asked Jerry Slevin if he could perhaps summarize an argum...
Thursday, October 2, 2014

Questions from a Ewe on the Eve of the Synod on the Family

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As a complement to my ten modest theological conclusions on the eve of the synod on the family, here are some questions from Questio...
Wednesday, March 12, 2014

NCR Report on Vatican Questionnaire in U.S.: Only One-Third of Dioceses Made It Available

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For those following the discussion of the questionnaire that the Vatican asked bishops around the world to make available to Catholic ...
Monday, February 24, 2014

More Reports in Preparation for Vatican Synod on the Family: Spain, Japan, Diocese of Westminster, England, United States

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As a new work week begins, I want to mention a few more reports that have recently been issued summarizing the response of lay Cathol...
Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Vatican Survey of Catholics for Synod on the Family: More Evidence (England, Wales, Canada) of "Huge Gap" Between Magisterial Teaching and People of God

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Reports continue to come in from various parts of the world, noting how Catholics in various places have responded to the questionnai...
Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Univision Poll: Global Fracture Lines in Catholic Church Over Family Issues, with Widespread Rejection of Teaching on Contraception and Other Issues

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As Conrad Noll points out in a comment here last evening, the Univision poll about which I blogged yesterday (and briefly  on Sunda...
Sunday, February 9, 2014

Taking A Close Look at the "Church Teaching" That Vatican Media Apologists Claim U.N. Attacks: There's Their World, and Then There's the Real World

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For Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP),  David Clohessy responds to Austen Ivereigh's claim that the U.N. Comm...
Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Footnote to Report of German Bishops to Vatican in Preparation for Synod on Family: Swiss Catholics Weigh In

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A footnote to my posting yesterday about the report of the German bishops to the Vatican about the results of the Vatican survey in ...
Tuesday, February 4, 2014

German Bishops Release Results of Survey for Synod on Family: "Rarely Has an Institution Received Such Low Marks from Its Members"

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Yesterday, the Catholic bishops of Germany made public the results of the survey of lay Catholics mandated by the Vatican in prepara...
Wednesday, January 29, 2014

In the News: Little Sisters of Poor and Affordable Care Act, German Catholics on Vatican Questionnaire, Pope and Rolling Stone

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A mid-week selection of articles about themes Catholic that have caught my eye in the past few days: