Showing posts with label ethic of inclusion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ethic of inclusion. Show all posts
Friday, December 11, 2020

Open Sedition from Their "Pro-Life" Party and an End-of-Office "Killing Spree": US Catholic Bishops Turn Their Big Guns vs. Hymn "All Are Welcome"

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Well, at least the US Catholic bishops are no longer babbling on about and pretending that all are welcome.
Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Death of 7-Year-Old Girl in U.S. Custody, a Family Funeral, and the Inexplicable Cruelty of Right-Wing U.S. Catholicism: An Advent Conundrum

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Sometimes I follow threads in Catholic discussions on Twitter down rabbit holes. I know I shouldn't do this, because the holes inev...
Sunday, October 28, 2018

Bishop Gene Robinson to Matt Shepard: "Welcome Home"; Catholic Youth Synod to LGBTQ People: "You Will Not Be Named in Our Heterosexual Church" — Questions for Synod Participants and Voters

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In his sermon at the interment of Matt Shepard, Bishop Gene Robinson says the following (these excerpts are from about 1:13:48 and 1:19:3...
Friday, October 26, 2018

We / They: How Refusal to Include Queer Voices in Synodal Conversations Undercuts Claims of Church about Itself as Sacramental Sign of Redemption

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“Christ made God manifest by making invisible people visible—the poor, women, all those deprived of their rights.” ~ Dorothee Sölle, ...
Thursday, September 13, 2018

My Twitter Conversation with Catholic Democrats about "Tremendous Push Back" Against Viganò Crowd's Homophobia: Where Is That Push Back Taking Place?

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Here's an exchange I had on Twitter yesterday with Catholic Democrats:
Thursday, August 23, 2018

Refusal of Catholic Hierarchy to Get Abuse Situation Parallels Refusal to Get LGBTQ People: World Meeting of Families Reminds Us, It's Not Going to Get Better

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Massive media turnout for lgbtq choir singing “Something Inside So Strong,” an Anti-Apartheid song, outside the walls of the World Meetin...
Thursday, August 16, 2018

A Response to Rita Ferrone's Prescription for Systemic Change in Church: "The Bishops Will Need to Work Together with All the Members of the Church" — Who Is "All," for Commonweal Catholics?

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https://t.co/6J4gOLteTU 1) "The first thing the American church must do—and probably the only effective thing it can do—is to put i...
Wednesday, October 25, 2017

A Reader Asks: "If You Could Sit Down with Fr. Martin for a One on One," What Would You Say? My Response

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In response to what I posted yesterday as I recommended to you the podcast discussion featuring Mary Hunt, Marianne Duddy-Burke, and ...
Tuesday, October 24, 2017

"Some People Get Uninvited from Talks. Some People Never, Ever Get Even an Invitation to the Table at All": Mary Hunt, Marianne Duddy-Burke, Jamie Manson NCR Podcast Conversation

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I've previously recommended to you Mary Hunt, Marianne Duddy-Burke, and Jamie Manson's essay at National Catholic Reporter  entit...
Monday, October 23, 2017

An Apology from New Ways Ministry Official for His Comment About Me on Facebook

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I do want to acknowledge that I have received an emailed apology from the New Ways Ministry official who left the comment on Facebook...

On the Characterization of Some Catholic LGBTQ Voices as Uncharitable Garbage: Continuing the Necessary Conversation

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Because I think this conversation is extremely important — if the goal of any reformist group within the Catholic church really is to...
Sunday, October 22, 2017

Associate Director of New Ways Ministry Responds to My Essay about Mary Hunt, Marianne Duddy Burke, and Jamie Manson's Recent Proposal as "Uncharitable Garbage": My Reflections

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A number of days back, I recommended  to you an essay by Mary Hunt, Marianne Duddy-Burke, and Jamie Manson calling for kick-starting...
Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Paul Ryan, Erik Prince, Steve Bannon: Welcome to the Catholic Table! (People Like Me, Not So Much) — Post-Birthday Reflections

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In the Catholic church in the U.S., there's a nice, secure seat at the table for Paul Ryan.
Saturday, December 3, 2016

Had One of My Church Dreams Last Night: An Advent Meditation

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Had one of my church dreams last night. Church dreams are, for me, often painful ones involving tears (the impossibly distant altar I can...
Thursday, December 1, 2016

What's Church for Again? A Tale of Two Churches

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What's church for? I've been asking this question repeatedly on this blog during the lead-up to the U.S. presidential election....
Monday, September 26, 2016

Readers Write: If 60% of "Nones" Say They've Just Stopped Believing, We Can Ignore the 40% of Catholic "Nones" Who Left Due to Abuse of Gays, Right?

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Yesterday, I noted that, in a recent posting at the Commonweal  blog, Michael Peppard points to the finding of a just-published PRR...
Saturday, September 10, 2016

"Catholic Schools in Arkansas Are Attempting to Erase the Identities of LGBT Students by Threatening Them": P.S. Still Not Getting Better Under Pope Francis

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The new policy regarding gay * (in summation, they don't exist and can't exist in Catholic schools) students in Arkansas Catholic...
Friday, September 9, 2016

It's Not Getting Better Under Pope Francis: Report from My Own Back Yard, Where Catholic Schools Are Ordered Never to Say Gay

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You know how I keep saying it's not getting better under Pope Francis — not for gay* Catholics? This is from my own diocese. This...
Friday, August 26, 2016

The Churches and Gay Folks: Three Statements To Read Side by Side

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Three statements from religious news sites today that should be read and discussed side by side, I think:
Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Quote for Day: "Christianity's Long, Shameful History of Teaching That Gays and Lesbians Are Abhorrent Sinners Is Coming Home to Roost in a Costly Global Way"

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Bill Tammeus (who, in addition to being one of the best religion journalists in the U.S. is a Presbyterian elder) compares the strugg...