Showing posts with label gospel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gospel. Show all posts
Saturday, October 24, 2020

When the Instinctual Response of Christian Communities to a Changing World Is, No!

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Read the responses of a number of bishops and the homophobic sector of Catholic Twitter to the recently released papal statement about civil...
Monday, December 16, 2019

Ruth Krall, "The Good Samaritan: Pious Parable or Subversive Instruction?"

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Vincent van Gogh, "The Good Samaritan," original in the Kroller-Muller Museum in Otterlo, The Netherlands, uploaded to Wikimedia...
Friday, December 6, 2019

What We Are Now Living Through Creates a Serious Crisis of Religious Faith

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In the video above, discussing the death of 16-year-old Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez in a detention center for immigrants this past ...
Monday, November 25, 2019

Who Catechized Devin Nunes?

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Devin Nunes is Catholic. Who catechized Devin Nunes? Who normalizes men like William Barr and Devin Nunes (and Patrick Buchanan and Se...
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
Friday, August 30, 2019

"George Pell AC (born 8 June 1941) Is an Australian Cardinal of the Catholic Church and Convicted Child Sex Offender": Questions We Might Ask

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Plus ça change : for people who profess to be all about taking history and tradition seriously, many self-professed Catholic conserva...
Monday, August 12, 2019

Ruth Krall, Moral Corruption in the Religious Commons (2)

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Theodore Rombouts, (1597-1617), " Christ Driving the Money-Changers from the Temple " The essay below is the second installm...
Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Margaret Renkl on Obligation of Catholics to Defend Their LGBTQ Brothers and Sisters — Even Against Archbishops

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Margaret Renkl, " How to Defy the Catholic Church: Believers have a spiritual obligation to defend their L.G.B.T.Q. brothers and sis...
Thursday, June 27, 2019

"If Evangelical Christians Stood Up for These Children…"

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If evangelical Christians stood up for these children, things could change in the camps very quickly.  ~ Caitlin Flanagan, " Ch...
Friday, June 7, 2019

Bishop Bransfield Authors "One of the Finest Pastoral Letters on Poverty" Michael Sean Winters Has Read: My Response

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In an essay about the scandal that is Bishop "$182,000 for Cut Flowers" Bransfield, entitled " Lavish living by Cathol...
Wednesday, April 24, 2019

"Christ Has No Body on Earth Now But Ours": An Easter Meditation on Hands and Feet by Jessica Pegis

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In her recent essay at the Women in Theology site entitled "Hands and Feet," Jessica Pegis notes that one of her favorite ...
Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Frédéric Martel on the Tragedy That Is the Pastoral Career of Joseph Ratzinger — A Tragedy for the Entire Church

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From Frédéric Martel, In the Closet of the Vatican , on the tragedy of Joseph Ratzinger's (Benedict XVI's) pastoral career: ...
Monday, December 31, 2018

Michael Sean Winters Asks, "Can the Church Round the Corner in 2019?": My Response

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"Can the church round the corner in 2019?" Michael Sean Winters asks in an end-of-year reflection published today . I conside...
Friday, December 28, 2018

Family Funerals, Immigrant-Bashing, and the Weaponization of American Catholicism: Place to Which "Pro-Life" U.S. Catholic Leaders Have Brought Their Church

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At a Catholic funeral for a parent, is it normal or usual to print at the bottom of the funeral program that anyone not in communion w...
Monday, December 24, 2018

A Christmas Story

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Since Christmas is a time for telling ourselves stories…. The Christmas story is one we have to make way for against all odds.
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...
Monday, December 3, 2018

Headlines Keep Pouring Forth: "Pope Francis Goes Full Homophobic"; "Pope Tells Gay Clergy to Quit" — Some Mercy. Some Hope. Some Welcome!

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Newshub (New Zealand) And the headlines just keep pouring out around the world: "Pope Francis goes full homophobic"; "P...
Thursday, November 29, 2018

Killing of John Allen Chau, Controversy re: Pope Benedict's View of Jewish-Christian Relations, Claim of Franklin Graham That Trump Defends the Faith: Idea of Religious Mission Now in News

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With the killing of John Allen Chau on North Sentinel Island and controversy about EPope Benedict XVI's understanding of Jewish-...
Saturday, May 19, 2018

"When Love Is the Way, There's Plenty Good Room, Plenty Good Room, for All of God's Children": Showcasing Black Church Gospel Preaching at Royal Wedding

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Here's the text of the sermon Bishop Michael Curry gave at the royal wedding today. In his book Silence: A Christian History (NY:...
Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Paul Ryan and the House Chaplain: Gospel According to Ayn Trumps Gospel of Jesus Christ

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If they fired Fr. Conroy for praying for God’s politics in the House, they will also have to get rid of Moses and Isaiah, Deborah and Jesu...