Showing posts with label papacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label papacy. Show all posts
Monday, October 6, 2014

Pope Francis and What He Represents: Ten Reasons Why I Keep Listening Widely and Maintaining Hope

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As I just stated in my previous posting, as I read commentary about Pope Francis and what's happening in my church today, I commi...
Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Mary Hunt on What Worries Her about Francis: "Substantive Structural and Doctrinal Issues Do Not Evaporate Just Because the Pope Does Not Wear Prada"

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I n a new essay at Religion Dispatches , theologian Mary Hunt discusses three puzzles that she's trying to make sense of as she l...
Sunday, October 6, 2013

Leonardo Boff on the Latin American Context of Francis's Papal Style, and the Shift from Doctrine and Discipline to Human Search and Human Inquiry

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Another essay by theologian Leonardo Boff , which, to my way of thinking, glosses the analysis of his reflection on Pope Francis...
Friday, March 15, 2013

Commentary on New Pope: Three Voices That Stand Out for Me

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Amidst the torrent of commentary that has appeared in the last two days about the new pope, several pieces have stuck out for me. I...
Thursday, March 14, 2013

The Symbolic Imperative of the Papacy Under Pope Francis: Kenotic Atonement

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As often happens, I’m feeling considerably out of step with much that’s being said following the election of Cardinal Bergoglio as p...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013

John Allen on Background of Pope Francis

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John Allen's write-up on Cardinal Bergoglio at NCR : according to Allen,

Breaking News: Habeunt Papam, Apparently (with Updates)

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News media are reporting white smoke from the papal conclave, but to my knowledge, no announcement yet of who has been elected.

Papal Conclave and Transition in Papacy: A Collection of Statements and Resources

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I think I heard somewhere that something is going on in Rome lately. Anybody else hear those rumors? I should probably look into them...
Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Measuring the New Pope: Cartoon Commentary by Cam Cardow

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Cam Cardow of Cagle Cartoons and the Ottawa Citizen , via Truthdig .

The Cardinals Close the Conclave Doors and the Holy Spirit Flits Away?

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I love Ken Briggs's sharp, sly observation about the silliness of what most of the cardinals being interviewed lately about the ...
Monday, March 11, 2013

SNAP to Cardinal Angelo Sodano: Step Down Tomorrow as Papal Conclave Begins

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The Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP) has just issued a press release calling on Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Dean of t...

Mainstream Media Reporting on Papal Transition: Neither Fair Nor Balanced

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I'm pretty sure I've told this story before here, but it bears repeating, I think: some two decades ago, I "won" a ...
Saturday, March 9, 2013

As Papal Election Nears, AP Recycles Old News about Bishop Finn Attacking NCR's Catholicity

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Does anyone in the world but me find it, well, odd  that, on the eve of a papal election, the Associated Press is shopping around an ...
Thursday, March 7, 2013

Fr. Paul Surlis: "Lost Hope Has Put the Church in Today's Crisis"

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Joseph Ratzinger at Vatican II Margaret Talbot is not the only one currently writing about the lost opportunity for Catholic refor...

Margaret Talbot on a Church Surely "In Some Kind of Trouble": Squandered Opportunities for Catholic Reform

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Margaret Talbot puts her finger  right on the glaring sore spot in a church that is, as she says, surely "in some kind of tro...
Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Mary Hunt on What Papal Transition Means and What Feminists Can Do About It

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At the Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual (WATER) website, theologian Mary Hunt asks why feminists should be conc...
Tuesday, March 5, 2013

As Papal Conclave Begins, Testimony of Abuse Survivors and Their Allies

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As the papal conclave begins, here's the testimony of some survivors of childhood clerical sexual abuse, of friends and allies of...
Monday, March 4, 2013

Mahony to Media: Vatican Instructed Me to Attend Papal Conclave

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In other cardinals-in-the-news news: as Francis X. Rocca reports in National Catholic Reporter , Cardinal Roger Mahony told Catholic...

Cardinal O'Brien Tells the Truth, Sort of, and Catholic Non-Conversation Continues

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By now, most readers of Bilgrimage will be well aware of the latest breaking news in the stories leading up to the election of a new ...
Sunday, March 3, 2013

Sunday Commentary on State of Catholic Church As Papal Election Nears

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Habemus papam!   Well, at least, according to "Saturday Night Live ," it appears we do.