Showing posts with label ecclesiology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ecclesiology. Show all posts
Friday, January 4, 2019

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, October 17, 2018

Not Blogging Lately Because I Don't Think That I Have Much to Say That Will Make Much of a Difference

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I'm not blogging much lately because I don't think, honestly, that I have much to say that will make much of a difference to any ...
Monday, September 10, 2018

The "Why I'm Leaving" and "Why I'm Staying" Statements After Pennsylvania Report: My Theological Take on Them

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There was an interesting discussion thread here several days back about the spate of articles after the Pennsylvania grand jury repor...
Saturday, April 21, 2018

Gerald Slevin on Pius IX and the Doctrine of Infallibility: Pope Francis Can Make the Church Great Again by Eliminating the "Infallibility Trap"

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Earlier today, I linked to a very fine statement by Irish lay Catholic Ursula Halligan in response to recent comments by Archbishop...
Tuesday, September 5, 2017

In the News: Hurricanes, America's Moral Crisis with Trump, and What Are Churches Good for Again?

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Some pieces I've read in the last few days that, to my way of thinking, tell a story. I hope you'll agree: what story do you ...
Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Jennifer Haselberger's Affidavit in the St. Paul-Minneapolis Archdiocesan Bankruptcy Case: "A Question of Equity and Fairness" Grounded in the Corporatist Tradition of Catholic Theology and Ecclesiology

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Before we left for our recent vacation, I made a promise here, I seem to recall, to read and comment on the 22 May affidavit of Jenni...
Monday, June 29, 2015

"The Easiest Way to Make Oneself Righteous Is to Make Someone Else a Sinner": The Churches and LGBT People Today — Grace or No Grace?

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"the easiest way to make oneself righteous is to make someone else a sinner." @rachelheldevans #searchingforsunday pic.twitter...
Friday, May 8, 2015

The Story of the Refusal of the Episcopal Cathedral in Orlando to Baptize the Son of a Gay Couple: My Reflections

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For a variety of reasons, I've been following with some interest the story of the refusal of Anthony Clark, dean of the Episcopal...
Friday, April 24, 2015

Quote for Day: Mary Hunt on Most Important Takeaway of Vatican Attack on U.S. Nuns — "Women's Equality in the Church Is No Longer Negotiable"

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Mary Hunt at Religion Dispatches in a post-mortem statement about the Vatican attack on American nuns:
Tuesday, November 18, 2014

More Catholic Voices on "Jesus' Effusion of Inclusion, Love and Mercy"

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Mark 1:1 (NRSV) In addition to Jerry Slevin, whose latest essay on Pope Francis and structural reform of the Catholic church I'...

Jerry Slevin on Pope Francis as a Ray of Hope in a Crisis of Trust — A Holy Mess

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At his Christian Catholicism site, Jerry Slevin  maintains that if Pope Francis represents "a ray of hope" for the Catholic...
Monday, October 6, 2014

Pope Francis and Synod: Coercive Top-Down Model of Church, or Consensual Bottom-Up Lay-Dominated Model? Recent Analysis Worth Reading

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The synod on the family opened in Rome yesterday, and as this gathering begins, journalist Robert Mickens states, in an interview with ...
Thursday, October 2, 2014

The Catholic Conversation about Sexuality and Family on Eve of Synod: Ten Modest Theological Conclusions

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Ten modest theological conclusions that I think one might reach as one surveys the discussions going on in Catholic circles about is...
Thursday, July 3, 2014

The Vatican Document on the Pastoral Challenges of Family: "Gospel of the Family" and the Bible (but Where's the Good News?!)

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When I first wrote about the document recently prepared by the Vatican as a foundation for discussion of family life at the upcomin...
Monday, June 30, 2014

The Vatican Document on the Pastoral Challenges of Family: Problematic Framing of Its "Communication" of "the Gospel of the Family"

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Suppose you are, God forbid, in a difficult spot with your spouse of many years, and you both agree to resort to couples counseling to ...
Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Hans Küng's Can We Save the Catholic Church? on Anti-Vatican II Decision of John Paul II and Benedict XVI to Wage War Against Secular Culture

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Three more passages from Hans Küng's book Can We Save the Catholic Church? (London: William Collins, 2013) that leap out at me a...
Thursday, June 12, 2014

Hans Küng, Can We Save the Catholic Church? on What Makes Church Church (Hint: Looking, Talking, and Acting Like Jesus)

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Hans Küng,  Can We Save the Catholic Church? (London: William Collins, 2013), on what makes a church a church — at the most fundamen...
Monday, June 9, 2014

Hans Küng, Can We Save the Catholic Church?: Küng's Diagnosis of a Church Sick Unto Death

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I'm nearing the end of Hans Küng's book Can We Save the Catholic Church?  (London: William Collins, 2013), about which I beg...
Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "Double Canonization Doesn't Lead to Recognizing Diversity but to Neutralizing Both Options"

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The following snippet is from a statement issued by the Spanish Asociación de Teólogas y Teólogos Juan XXIII at the end of May, re: th...
Monday, May 5, 2014

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "You Have to Be Environmentally Conditioned for Narcissism . . . to So Casually Express Superiority Over Others"

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I never cease to be amazed at the quality of some of the comments (and writing) right here at Bilgrimage. As far as I'm concerned...