Showing posts with label eucharist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label eucharist. Show all posts
Friday, March 27, 2020

Thomas O'Loughlin on Mass as Theater and Eucharist as Commodity: Theological Underpinnings of These Ideas

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As a follow-up to what I posted yesterday about how the aberrant Mass-as-theater theology of many Catholics is asserting itself all ...
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
Saturday, July 28, 2018

When a Story About Chewing Gum Is Not About Chewing Gum: Transgender Teen Denied Communion in Charlotte, North Carolina, Catholic Church

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Was she denied Communion because she’d been chewing gum — or because she’s transgender? https://t.co/cm8rjukgYx — ๐š†๐š’๐š•๐š•๐š’๐šŠ๐š– ๐™ณ. ๐™ป...
Monday, May 7, 2018

LGBTQ Catholics and the Conversation About Staying or Leaving: 15 More Theses About Truths That Need to Be Heard in This Conversation

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My last posting  was an attempt to tell truth that is, in my view, often obscured and even barred as Catholics discuss the "proble...
Saturday, May 5, 2018

LGBTQ Catholics Are Asked, Why Stay in the Church? My 15-Question Response

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A recent conference at Boston College asks LGBTQ Catholics , Why stay? Why do you stay in the Catholic church?
Friday, October 7, 2016

Pope Francis' Recent Remarks on Gender Theory and Pastoral Accompaniment of Gay People: My Response in a Nutshell

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In a nutshell, in case this was not clear when you read my posting yesterday about Pope Francis' recent remarks regarding "...
Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Detroit Free Press Article About Gay Couple Who Are Active Catholics: An Image of the Divided U.S. Catholic Church

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If you're looking for a rather neat snapshot of the two theological universes that coexist uneasily in American Catholicism today...
Monday, July 13, 2015

How the Confederate Battle Flag Is Like the Tridentine Mass: What Sister Never Knew and Father Never Told You Speaks Out

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At the What Sister Never Knew and Father Never Told You site , blogger Consolamini minces no words as he compares the Confederate bat...
Monday, October 20, 2014

Welcome Table, Jesus's Practice of Open Commensality, and Catholic Discussion of Welcoming the Gays: Theological Soundings

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Yesterday, I shared some reflections about the old spiritual, "I'm Going to Sit at the Welcome Table." I did so, obvio...
Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Charlotte Catholic High School Controversy: "When the Church Treats People as Things . . . It Undermines the Very Meaning of the Eucharist"

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For an explanation of the context of this posting, please see this preceding posting . In light of the controversy that has develope...
Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Agni Asks If I Go to Church: Another Excerpt from My Letters to the Bishop of Charlotte — Eucharistic Bread and Daily Bread Connected

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In a comment here yesterday  responding to my posting about the recent uproar in the diocese of Charlotte, North Carolina, Agni ask...
Sunday, April 28, 2013

Dirty Freddie and the Gays: Cardinal Dolan Explains Catholic Welcome of LGBT Persons

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I get the feeling that the leader of the U.S. Catholic bishops, Cardinal Dolan, may not have been taught much about manners as he w...
Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Whores and Tax Collectors and a Table Open to All: Adam Gopnik on Jesus's Eating with Outcasts

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I just finished Adam Gopnik's book The Table Comes First  (NY: Vintage Books, 2011), and found this observation in the final page...
Monday, April 15, 2013

Remembering Dietrich Bonhรถffer: "The Table Fellowship of Christians Implies Obligation"

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As the anniversary of German theologian Dietrich Bonhรถffer's execution by the Nazi regime passes (it was on 9 April), I think of ...
Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Here Be Dragons: Tribalistic Patrolling of Catholic-Identity Boundaries and Pushback Against Garry Wills

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Over the lunch hour and after we had met friends for lunch, Steve had a bit of business to conduct. As I often do while I wait in the...
Sunday, January 20, 2013

Quote of the Day: "The Eucharist Meal Was Not Intended to Be an Event Mainly to Be Monopolized and Controlled by a 'Mystical' Celibate Male Priesthood"

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A powerfully insightful observation by Jerry Slevin at his Christian Catholicism blog site:
Thursday, September 27, 2012

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "I Used to Think We, My Church and I, Were about Love"

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My first posting this morning spoke of the heart pain I experience right now as I see a church I chose in the 1960s because its we...

The Welcome Table: Further Reflections

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After I blogged about the welcome table this past Sunday, I began doing a bit of online reading.   The Mountain Dulcimer Noter and Dro...
Sunday, September 23, 2012

Sunday Thoughts: Pho, Fried Plantains, and Welcome Tables

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Lines overheard in a Vietnamese restaurant in St. Paul:
Thursday, August 9, 2012

More Signposts for Exiled Believers, More Reflections on the Mike and Cathy Club

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More signposts for me from people who speak to my soul as I flounder in the wilderness, crying out to God, asking how to sustain a s...