Showing posts with label ecology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ecology. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Recommended Commentary: "There Will Be Lots of Singing, Preaching, Praying, and Hand Holding. Meanwhile, Victims of Sacralized Bigotry and Discrimination Will Be Ignored"

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Nine people of faith sit in jail tonight for praying on the steps of the #SupremeCourt . This from the same court that ruled in favor of t...
Monday, May 14, 2018

Quote for Day: Why Scott Pruitt Kept Opulent Dinner with Cimate Change Denying Cardinal Pell a Secret — "It Was a No-Brainer"

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Rachel Olding in an article entitled " Why George Pell dined with under-fire EPA's Scott Pruitt in secret ," on Cardina...

Cardinal Accused of Sex Crimes Has Secret Dinner with U.S. Official Attacking Climate Change Findings and Federalist Society Members: Where's the Punchline?

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Think about this - a leading curial cardinal, George Pell, is meeting secretly with those in the Trump administration whose main goal in l...
Friday, November 17, 2017

"The Fish Rots from the Head" and American Catholic Reasons for Choosing Trump: My Take

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It’s all-out war on the poor at this point. https://t.co/v89ZgmRQCd — Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) November 17, 2017 In an article yesterday...
Sunday, September 13, 2015

Michael Arceneaux on Why He Won't Return to Church, Even with Francis: "If You’re Not a Straight, White, Cisgender Man, Catholic Culture and Theology Isn’t Speaking to You"

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In The Guardian  today, Michael Arceneaux , a black, gay man who has left the Catholic church, explains why Pope Francis hasn't c...
Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Katha Pollitt on Laudato Si': "If Pope Francis Really Wanted to Fight Climate Change, He'd Be a Feminist"

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And more outstanding commentary today — this by Katha Pollitt at The Nation   noting that   Pope Francis's considerable blind spo...
Friday, July 31, 2015

Jacob J. Erickson on Killing of Cecil the Lion As Part of "Larger Theological History of Environmental, Gendered, and Colonial Injustice"

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In several comments yesterday, I recommended Jacob J. Erickson's recent essay at Religion Dispatches entitled " The Martyrdo...
Sunday, July 12, 2015

Naomi Klein on a Radical Vatican Under Pope Francis?

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Some excerpts for you from Naomi Klein's recent New Yorker   essay entitled "A Radical Vatican? ": Klein notes that sh...
Thursday, July 2, 2015

On Laudato Si' and Its "Integral Ecology" and Themes of Relatioality: Helpful Commentary

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When I first responded to Pope Francis's encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si' , I promised to provide you with some mor...
Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Jamie Manson on Laudato Si': "How Has the Church's Paternalistic Need for Power Over the Sexualities of Its Flock Exacerbated the Conditions of the Poor?"

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Jamie Manson notes that Laudato Si'  does not acknowledge that having access to contraception has alleviated both poverty and ec...
Thursday, June 18, 2015

Rabbi Menachem Creditor on Charleston Church Hate Crime: "This Broken World Demands Upon Us All That We Cry Again to 'Mother Emanuel,' to Mother-God-Who-is-with-Us"

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Rabbi Menachem Creditor on yesterday's racist hate crime in an African Methodist Episcopal church in Charleston, South Carolina:...

Pope Francis's Encyclical on the Environment, and the Impossibility of Discussing Violence Against the Environment Without Discussing Gender Issues

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Call me crazy, but if I were a world religious leader writing a major document about ecology today — one which stresses that it is a...
Monday, May 4, 2015

As Pope Francis's Encyclical on Environment Nears, Attempts by Big Oil to Subvert It: Recent Commentary

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As various news sources are reporting that Pope Francis's encyclical on the environment will be published next month, there's...
Thursday, April 16, 2015

In News: Calls for Removal of Archbishop Cordileone, Vatican Ends Investigation of Nuns, Pope and Environment, Roe v. Wade and Marriage Equality, Hot Mess with Chilean Bishop

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Here's a hodgepodge of news stories (and commentary) about Catholic-themed issues previously discussed on this blog:
Sunday, March 8, 2015

Quote for Day: Naomi Klein on Why We're Stuck with Climate Change — It's about the Economic Elite, Stranglehold, and the Fetish of Centrism

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Naomi Klein is incisive — and powerful — as she explains why the human community is unable to address climate crisis that is now thr...
Thursday, January 8, 2015

Maureen Mullarkey Strikes Again (and a Reminder About Commonweal Catholic Centrism)

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Remember Maureen Mullarkey? Sure you do! Back in 2009, when it became public that she had contributed to the prop 8 campaign to strip...
Monday, December 29, 2014

Kali Holloway on 2014's Best Documentaries: From Colonialism to War to Ecology to Misogony, Homophobia, and Heterosexism

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In this lull time between the various winter-solstice holidays and the celebration of a new year, when we have time on our hands, Kal...
Monday, July 28, 2014

In the News: Sixth Mass Extinction of Species Now Underway

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In her review of Elizabeth Kolbert's The Sixth Extinction (NY: Henry Holt, 2014), Louise Rubacky notes that Kolbert's thesis...
Saturday, June 28, 2014

Cooking to Save the Planet: Lentil Soup

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Lentils first came to my attention when I went to college in New Orleans and stayed to work there a number of years, returning afte...
Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Seeing Visions and Dreaming Dreams: Impending Socioeconomic and Ecological Crisis and Religious Theories of Change

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In a two-part interview with Xavier Casanovas, Oscar Mateos, Santi Torres, and Nani Vall-llossera in  Cristianisme i Justícia (via I...