Showing posts with label exclusion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label exclusion. Show all posts
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...
Saturday, October 31, 2015

Krzysztof Charamsa's Letter to the Pope in English Translation: "I’ve Made the Decision to Publicly Refuse the Violence of the Church with Regard to [LBTI] People"

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Because Giova Gallagher has kindly pointed us in a comment here to an English translation of the full text of Monsignor  Krzysztof Ch...
Friday, December 13, 2013

Quote for Day: "It Is Still Globally the Case – and Pope Francis Is Well Aware – That the Poorest of the Poor, the Last on the List for Food, Medicine and Education, Are Women"

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Once again: we cannot talk credibly about poverty and overcoming the exclusion produced by unjust socioeconomic structures without ta...
Thursday, December 12, 2013

Gospel and More Gospel: When the Gospel of Jesus (and Pope Francis) Meets the American Gospel . . .

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Pope Francis says,
Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Why Do the U.S. Bishops Sound So Unlike Pope Francis? Vinnie Rotondaro Provides Answers

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Vinnie Rotondaro I also want to recommend today Vinnie Rotondaro's examination of why Pope Francis's message of merciful c...
Tuesday, December 3, 2013

The Missed Opportunities of Pope Francis's Evangelii Gaudium

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In a statement at his Christian Catholicism site , Jerry Slevin concludes that, with his apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium , Po...
Monday, December 2, 2013

Pope Francis's Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium: A Critical Response from a Nobody Who Isn't Even in the Room

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When a big religious organization, one with global reach, announces that it's reforming itself, reaching back to its origins and se...
Friday, November 29, 2013

Pope Francis's Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium: Reflections from a Nobody Who Isn't Even in the Room

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I've struggled for several days now to write something about Pope Francis's apostolic exhortation   Evangelii Gaudium .  I have...
Sunday, January 20, 2013

Good News as Week Ends: Leading U.K. Evangelical Pastor Endorses Marriage Equality

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As the week turns, I don't want to forget to draw readers' attention to some very good news from the past week. As Candace Ch...
Thursday, June 16, 2011

What Really Drives Catholics Making Gays Unwelcome? Keeping American Catholicism Politically Pure

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A thought that's been knocking around in my head since I posted about the recent discussion at the In All Things blog of America mag...
Saturday, June 11, 2011

Paul Lakeland on Humility as Virtue Needed by Catholics Today, and a Continuation of a Family Saga of Exclusion

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Dinah Roe Kendall, "The Good Samaritan," 1994 Tom Fox's report on Paul Lakeland's recent College Theology Society ad...
Wednesday, February 25, 2009

More on Lent and the Tears of Things: Andrew Sullivan on James Alison and Gay Believers' Pain

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And now I see, having blogged earlier today ( here ) about Lent and taking pain into one's depths to confront it and perhaps transmute ...

Lent and the Tears of Things: A Meditation on Mourning and the Spiritual Life

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Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt . . . . I have been struggling with sadness lately. I continue struggling with sadness as Le...
Thursday, February 14, 2008

Keeping On Keeping On

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Home again, with some lines from a book I read on my 2005 pilgrimage across southern England and Wales running through my mind. These are f...