Showing posts with label pastoral leadership. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pastoral leadership. Show all posts
Thursday, March 26, 2020

Mass Suffering and Televised Masses: Watch Me Eat for You! Watch ME!

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Coronavirus: A Spanish bishop has hit out at the “bombardment” of the faithful with coronavirus TV broadcast and livestreamed Masses, aski...
Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Recommending "The List" — Commentary on Catholic Diocese of Charlotte and Its Yet to Be Fulfilled Promise to Release List of Abusive Priests

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As I have noted in previous postings (a bibliography is appended at the end of this posting, covering the past several years), the di...
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 ...
Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Father Tom Doyle's Recent Lecture, "What the Sexual Abuse Phenomenon Has Done to the Catholic Church"

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I'd like to point you today to a resource Ruth Krall has told me about: as the video at the head of the posting indicates, recently, ...
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...
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: ...
Sunday, January 13, 2019

Front Page News Today in Charlotte, North Carolina: "PRIESTS ACCUSED OF SEX ABUSE — The Charlotte Diocese Has Not Released Lists"

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On the front page of today's Charlotte Observer : a headline reading, "PRIESTS ACCUSED OF SEX ABUSE," with a notice that th...
Sunday, January 6, 2019

As U.S. Bishops (Some of Them) Pray Together, Twitter Comments: "Through It All, and Still Today, the Bishops Have Attempted to Deflect Blame for the Crisis Onto Others"

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Demonstrators lined up outside a Catholic bishops' retreat in suburban Mundelein to protest church officials’ handling of sexual abuse...
Friday, January 4, 2019

Tweets About the Bishops' Retreat: "Secrecy, Hypocrisy, and an Arrogant Refusal to Be Held Accountable"

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Things are likely to be tense when the US Catholic bishops meet at their closed-door retreat near Chicago this week. The credibility of t...
Wednesday, November 28, 2018

German Catholic Bishops on Abuse: Church Is at "Point of No Return" and Has Been Exposed as "Perpetrator Organization" — What Now?

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Christa Pongratz-Lippitt, " Bishops must open archives to 'independent experts' ":
Saturday, November 17, 2018

Commentary on U.S. Bishops' Meeting: "The Moral Credibility of Catholic Bishops in the United States Is in Tatters"

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Barry Blitt's "Welcome to Congress" cover for New Yorker , 9 November 2018 Now if a knock-off cover could only be prod...
Friday, October 12, 2018

Me, Talking Back to National Catholic Reporter and Michael Sean Winters re: Resignation of Donald Wuerl

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Wuerl hounded from office for becoming face of abuse crisis https://t.co/N2pHeSpgcP via @ncronline "He has been for 30 years a force...
Wednesday, September 5, 2018

My "Final" Take on the Viganò Narrative: I Am Frankly Not Sure That Catholicism Can Be Cleansed of Hatred of Queer People

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One possible explanation of Pope Francis's silence on Viganò: to respond to the accusations would require him to directly critique the...
Friday, August 24, 2018

Catholics Talking, Walking: "It Is Time to Stop Waiting for More Reports to Accumulate, Hoping That Something Will Finally Be Done about This"

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Colm O'Gorman to Shelagh Fogarty, "Leading Britain's Conversation" Interview, by way of Sandra Glab Amanda Auchter, ...
Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Joanna Moorhead in The Guardian on Pope's Letter re: Sexual Crimes of Clergy and Cover-up by Church Officials — "[H]ow Dare You Ask Ordinary Catholics Like Me to Atone?"

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Joanna Moorhead for The Guardian   on papal letter about clerical abuse crimes and their cover-up by church officials :
Monday, August 20, 2018

Anthea Butler Responds to Pope's Statement re: Clergy Sex Crimes: "Stop Passing the Buck Onto the People of God Instead of the Catholic Hierarchy"

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That's not the issue. The issue is, the cycles of revelation of the malfeasance of the church and the hierarchy in protecting their ow...
Friday, August 17, 2018

"For they preach but they do not practice": An Appeal for Justice to U.S. Bishops and Pastors — Please Consider Signing

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A theologian-colleague who is a friend of mine shared this letter with me today, asking me to consider signing it as a theologian. I t...

More Commentary on Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report, as Vatican Sends Thoughts and Prayers

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Elizabeth Bruenig, " Evil walked the earth in Pennsylvania ": That there should be mass defrockings is obvious. That t...
Saturday, June 2, 2018

Catholic Church and LGBTQ People: Clues, Hearsay, Spectacularly Failed Pastoral Leadership in Face of Oppression and Suffering

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Jamie L. Manson, " For LGBTQ Catholics, there is little hope in hearsay ":
Saturday, February 10, 2018

Alan McCornick on Cardinal Marx, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship on LGBTQ Employees, Heated Debate About Progressive Evangelicals and LGBTQ Lives: News

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Trump's Statement on Alleged Abuser #RobPorter : 'Him-He-Him-Him-He-He-He-He-Him-He-He-He-He-He-He-Him-Him-He-He' - https://t...