Showing posts with label mercy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mercy. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Catholic Scholars Ask About Silence of Liberal Catholics re: LGBTQ Issues as They Praise Amoris Laetitia, While Vatican Official Attacks LGBTQ Community

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About a month ago, I summed up  my response to so-called liberal or progressive Catholics who praise the recent papal document on the...
Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Ivone Gebara and Krzysztof Charamsa on Amoris Laetitia: "Ideological Propaganda of the 'Joy' of Love Which Is Heterosexual Only, and Which Insensitively Excludes All Others, Who Should Not Exist"

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Two more very valuable pieces of commentary about the papal exhortation on the family  Amoris Laetitia  that I'd like to recommen...
Friday, April 15, 2016

U.S. Bishops Fire Tony Spence of Catholic News Service for Tweeting Criticism of Hate Legislation in North Carolina and Georgia Targeting Queer Community: Twitter Reacts

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Attacks on . @TonySpence of . @CatholicNewsSvc by conservative bloggers "too much for . @USCCB " Spences asked to quit http...
Thursday, April 14, 2016

Keeping the Conversation about Amoris Laetitia Real: "There Are Absolutely No Grounds for Considering Homosexual Unions to Be in Any Way Similar or Even Remotely Analogous to God’s Plan for Mar­riage and Family"

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Father Francis X. Clooney looks at Pope Francis's statement in Amoris Laetitia  (§251) that there are absolutely no grounds for c...
Friday, April 8, 2016

Michael Boyle on North Carolina Bishops' Praise of Anti-LGBTQ Hate Law and Who Really Represents Christianity Adequately Today (and the Connection to Amoris Laetitia)

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This is not unrelated to the discussion of Amoris Laetitia  that I began in my first two postings this morning: I'd like to recom...

Amoris Laetitia: No Good News for LGBTQ People or Women — The Commentary Begins

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Good news! The definition of mercy remains securely in the hands of heterosexual (and heterosexual-posturing) men this morning. God...
Thursday, April 7, 2016

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "Welcome to the Year of Mercy. You're Fired"

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Father Peter Daly, pastor of  St. John Vianney parish in Prince Frederick, Maryland, writing in National Catholic Reporter  yesterda...

North Carolina Catholic Bishops Peter Jugis and Michael Burbidge Issue Warm Thank You to North Carolina Legislators for Bill Attacking LGBTQ People

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On Holy Saturday, I wrote that  Steve and I had chosen to celebrate Easter with Christian communities that actually welcome  us and...
Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: LGBTQ Human Beings, "the Church Doesn't Owe You Understanding or Mercy, but Recognition"

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Basque Franciscan theologian Jose Arregi tells LGBTQ human beings (his statement in Spanish is at the ATRIO site , and has been tran...
Saturday, March 26, 2016

As Easter Nears, I'm Pondering Kaya Oakes's Question, "Is the Catholic Church in America Getting Worse for LGBTQ People and Women?" (My Answer: Yes)

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An open thread for Holy Week: is the Catholic church in America getting worse for LGBTQ people and women? https://t.co/q0KR9LKpfU — kaya ...
Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Kaya Oakes on Why Americans May Not Get Pope Francis's Insistence on Mercy: "Racism, Homophobia, Violence"

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What Americans should give up during #Lent : racism, homophobia, violence. Why we fail at mercy, by me. @RDispatches https://t.co/9o8x3r...
Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Robert Mickens on Bread, Circuses, and Dressed-Up Enbalmed Corpses for the Year of Mercy (and John Allen's Counter-Analysis)

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Robert Mickens on bread and circuses (and dressed-up enbalmed corpses) for the Year of Mercy:
Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Footnote to Previous Posting re: Jamie Manson's New NCR Article: Knives Are Out in NCR Thread Full of Pseudo-Charity and Pretend-Objectivity

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A footnote to what I published earlier today about Jamie Manson's powerful statement at NCR noting that it's justice that L...

Quote for Day: "LGBTQ Persons Do Not Need Mercy from the Church. We Need Justice"

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In a powerful statement at National Catholic Reporter  today, Jamie Manson notes that many Catholics would like to hope that the doo...
Monday, December 28, 2015

National Catholic Reporter Editorializes: "How Will We As a Church Live with Our Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Brothers and Sisters?"

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Let the Church always be a place of mercy and hope, where everyone is welcomed, loved and forgiven. — Pope Francis (@Pontifex) June 16, ...
Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Catholic Committee of Appalachia Releases People's Pastoral Including LGBT Voices: "Churches That Condemn Same-Sex Relationships End Up Attacking the Very Personhood of Gay and Lesbian People"

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Today, the Catholic Committee of Appalachia released its " People's Pastoral " (pdf file) entitled "The Telling Take...
Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: An Eye-Opening Dialogue About Pope's Year of Mercy and Catholic Gay-Bashing

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One  Purgatrix Ineptiae, responding * to Joshua McElwee's article at National Catholic Reporter  noting that Pope Francis has ope...
Wednesday, October 21, 2015

The Rest of the Story at Belmont Abbey College: Aftermath to the Destruction of Two Careers (Claims That the College's Catholicity Had Waned, Reassertion of Direct Monastic Control)

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And then down the road, this happened at Belmont Abbey College in North Carolina after that college and the monastery that owns it sh...
Tuesday, October 20, 2015

More of My Story: 1993 Letter That "Went Everywhere," According to Abbot Who Accused Me of Assaulting Him by Telling My Story — A Sequel

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Mary Oliver, “The Chance to Love Everything,” in Dream Work (NY: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986), p. 9.  In the past three days, I...
Monday, October 19, 2015

More of My Story: 1993 Letter That "Went Everywhere," According to Abbot Who Accused Me of Assaulting Him by Telling My Story (3)

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Mary Oliver, “The Chance to Love Everything,” in Dream Work (NY: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986), p. 9.  This is the third and final in...