Showing posts with label religious women. Show all posts
Showing posts with label religious women. Show all posts
Sunday, February 10, 2019

In the News: Abuse in Southern Baptist Churches, Abuse of Women in Catholic Church, Newly Staged Attack on Pope Francis

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Here are some important interrelated items I've read in the past several days that I'd like to share with you:
Monday, December 10, 2018

Abuse of Vulnerable People and Churches: Recent Reports, from Baptists to Nuns Raped by Bishops and Priests to Jesuits to a German Princess Saving the Church

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This is a collection of reports on the abuse situation as it is unfolding in various churches now. These are all recent statements, and...
Tuesday, November 27, 2018

"Scapegoating Gay Priests and Pining for a World in Which Most Catholics Agree with Church Teaching on Birth Control Is No Way to Confront the Abuse Crisis"

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It needs to be said again: the call of some Catholic pastoral leaders and of some sectors of the church for "purification" ...
Monday, September 14, 2015

Nuns on the Bus Come to Little Rock: Practicing Holy Curiosity and Sacred Gossip in the 21st Century

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Steve and I spent last evening at the town hall meeting hosted by the Nuns on the Bus, as they arrived in Little Rock yesterday afte...
Monday, August 17, 2015

Bob Shine on Detroit Archbishop Allen Vigneron's Conference "Welcoming" LGBT Catholics: When Welcome Means Anything But

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Bob Shine yesterday at New Ways Ministry's Bondings 2.0 blog, commenting on Detroit archbishop Allen Vigneron's recent ...
Friday, April 24, 2015

Quote for Day: Mary Hunt on Most Important Takeaway of Vatican Attack on U.S. Nuns — "Women's Equality in the Church Is No Longer Negotiable"

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Mary Hunt at Religion Dispatches in a post-mortem statement about the Vatican attack on American nuns:
Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "This Whole LCWR Crackdown Was Planned . . . So That People Would Think of the LCWR Orders As Somehow 'Suspect''"

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My Facebook friend Mary DuMont Brower responding in my Facebook feed this morning to an article I had linked, by Sarah Posner writin...

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: Mollie Wilson O'Reilly on Vatican Report on U.S. Nuns — "Very Short on Specifics, Which I Presume Is by Design"

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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly at Commonweal on the "final report" that the Vatican released last week, ending its investiga...
Friday, April 17, 2015

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: Who Sits High and Who Sits Low (Picture's Worth 1,000 Words)

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Gerelyn Hollingsworth, responding to Dominic Preziosi's posting yesterday at Commonweal  blog about the Vatican announcement that ...
Thursday, April 16, 2015

In News: Calls for Removal of Archbishop Cordileone, Vatican Ends Investigation of Nuns, Pope and Environment, Roe v. Wade and Marriage Equality, Hot Mess with Chilean Bishop

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Here's a hodgepodge of news stories (and commentary) about Catholic-themed issues previously discussed on this blog:
Friday, December 19, 2014

Vatican Report on U.S. Nuns: Valuable Commentary by Joan Chittister, Christine Schenck, Sandra Schneiders, and Tom Fox

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Some brief excerpts of responses to the Vatican report on American women religious that have struck me as well worth reading:
Thursday, December 18, 2014

Christmas and the Empty Crib: Recent Catholic Commentary on the Broken Church

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What am I doing as Christmas approaches, besides baking cookies, fruitcakes, and cheese straws, you ask? And keeping the house runn...
Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Vatican Report on American Nuns: Some Short Takes

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A few short takes on yesterday's report on American nuns by the Vatican Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Soci...
Friday, November 14, 2014

El Salvador Martyrs: Valuable Educational Resources Now Coming Online

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Monday, August 18, 2014

Sister Elizabeth Johnson to LCWR: "The Submerged Female Half of the Church, Indeed of the Human Race, Is Rising"

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Sister Elizabeth Johnson , as she accepted the the top award of the Leadership Conference of Religious Women last week: 
Wednesday, August 13, 2014

More Translations of Recent News Reports: Regnerus's Latest, Gays and Religion, Archbishop Sartain and LCWR, More News about Archbishop Nienstedt

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More translations of recent news stories (see my explanation of what the term "translation" means here in what I posted abo...
Monday, August 11, 2014

Another Gratitude Story for You: Response of Steve's Aunts Who Are Nuns to Our Wedding

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Here's another gratitude story for you, to accompany the photos of our wedding celebration that I uploaded last evening:
Monday, July 21, 2014

Robert Blair Kaiser's Inside the Jesuits: How Pope Francis Is Changing the Church and the World — Jesuit DNA and the Papacy

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Some weeks back, Rowman & Littlefield kindly sent me for review a copy of Robert Blair Kaiser's book Inside the Jesuits: How ...
Thursday, May 15, 2014

Eugene Kennedy on What Gets the Men Running the Catholic Church Really Het Up: Hint — Not War, Poverty, and Plagues, but Uppity N-U-N-S

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A quote for the day from Eugene Cullen Kennedy writing in the National Catholic Reporter :
Wednesday, May 14, 2014

More News: Pope Francis and the Nuns, Clericalism and Abuse Crisis, Right-Wing Policies and Women's Health, Unbearable Whiteness of Liberal Media

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More news: