Showing posts with label theologians. Show all posts
Showing posts with label theologians. Show all posts
Friday, December 13, 2019

Footnote to My Eulogy of Carmel McEnroy: "As so Many Others Have Experienced in This Life, Her Complete Redemption Had to Wait Till the Next Life"

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Mercy Sister, Carmel McEnroy, author who captured women's role in #VaticanII , dies https://t.co/UxKj64GdVU via @ncronline @Sisters...
Monday, December 9, 2019

Remembering Carmel McEnroy, RSM, a Distinguished Theologian Whose Career Was Cut Short by St. Meinrad Theology School

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Mercy Sister, Carmel McEnroy, author who captured women's role in #VaticanII , dies https://t.co/UxKj64GdVU via @ncronline @Sisters...
Thursday, March 28, 2019

Frédéric Martel's In the Closet of the Vatican: Concluding Remarks About Why This Book Matters — The Extensive Damage Done by a System "Perverted Since the Outset"

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I've now finished reading Frédéric Martel's In the Closet of the Vatican , and want to share some concluding thoughts about the...
Wednesday, February 21, 2018

The Bridge-Building Metaphor, the LGBTQ Community, and the Catholic Church: You Want to Build a Bridge to THAT?!

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As a metaphor, the image of building bridges from the LGBTQ community to the Catholic church and vice versa does not work for me. A primar...
Sunday, February 4, 2018

Kevin Ahern on the Failure of American Catholic Theologians to Defend Father James Martin: "A Crisis or Perhaps Even a Failure in Our Public Theology"

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A Failure in Public Theology: The Non-Defense of James Martin, SJ by @kevin_ahern https://t.co/XX7Z9kmdRr via @wordpressdotcom — Katie...
Sunday, April 9, 2017

On Palm Sunday, a Letter I Wrote a Bishop Twenty Years Ago: "Your Eyes Are Fixed More on Power, Privilege, and Façades, Than on the Substance of the Gospel"

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I shared excerpts of this letter here almost three years ago to the day , noting that I sent it to the then-bishop of Charlotte, Nort...
Saturday, August 27, 2016

Where Have All the Christian Intellectuals Gone? (Does Anyone Remember John Paul's and Ratzinger's Purge of Catholic Theologians?)

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It's a thing now among journalists and religion commentators to ask what has happened to the public intellectuals of the churches...
Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Patricia Miller Asks Important Question: "What Does It Mean for the Church That the Last Three Heads of the CDF Have Been Implicated in Covering up Sexual Abuse?"

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Recommended: Patricia Miller's latest essay at Religion Dispatches, in which she continues to note the connections between the b...
Friday, January 22, 2016

Recommended: Joe Biden on LGBT Rights, Catherine Wallace on Gay Marriage and Anglican Anxiety, Patricia Miller on What Pope Benedict Knew When

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God bless Joe Biden (the section I've transcribed from his recent remarks at the World Economic Forum begins at about the 1.55 mar...
Thursday, October 29, 2015

Readers Write and I Respond: The Book Project

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In what I just posted about Steve's and my religious transition right at present, I told you that I would also pick up the thread...
Saturday, October 24, 2015

An Entirely Wrong-Headed Proposal for USCCB Funding of Lay Theological Education at America Magazine: My Critical Response

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As I've mentioned here in the past, I have given up on reading the Jesuit weekly America , even though I read it faithfully for m...
Monday, October 5, 2015

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "He Found Time to Meet Kim But Not Meet with Any One of the Many Outstanding Female Theologians Living in the U.S."

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Questions from a Ewe writes,  
Wednesday, September 23, 2015

As Francis Comes to U.S., I Remember JPII's Visit to My University in 1987 — When the Ceiling Fell

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As the current pope comes to the U.S., how can I ever forget the visit of another previous rock-star pope, John Paul II, to the U.S.?...
Tuesday, August 4, 2015

The SNAP Conference: A Personal Response (on Being Made Human Garbage by Church Leaders)

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More on the SNAP conference this past weekend: for me personally, the conference made a big impact in a way that’s not really easy to...
Friday, October 17, 2014

The Debate About Welcoming Those Who Are Gay — A Reader Asks: "What Are Catholics Afraid of? And Why"

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In your comments about "the ideological warfare and spin-control struggles" that have broken out at the synod on the family...
Friday, September 26, 2014

End-of-Week Commentary on Religious Matters: Religious-Right Gathering, White Evangelicals' Persecution Complex, Banning of Theologian Tina Beattie, "Unchanging"? Church Teaching, WWJD?

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As the work week ends, some thought-provoking observations I've gleaned from things I've read in the past several days, all w...
Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Family Values, Theologians, and Archbishop Nienstedt: A Theological Discussion Pertinent to the Synod on the Family

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I just wrote that  I'm seeing a strong hunger for authentic dialogue expressed in much commentary in Catholic circles about  the ...

Catholic Synod on the Family: Theologians Talking about Women, Democracy and Human Rights, Catholic Families — and Jesus

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As the Catholic synod on the family nears, I'm spotting more and more commentary focusing on the distance (in the view of many ...
Friday, July 25, 2014

Members of Theology Faculty of St. Thomas University, St. Paul: We Need "New Leadership at the Archdiocesan Level, Leadership That Includes Individuals Who Are Neither Perpetrators Nor Enablers of Abuse"

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Brian Roewe reports today that five members of the theology faculty of St. Thomas University in St. Paul, Minnesota — Cara Anthony, ...
Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Matthew Fox on Benedict XVI (in Introduction to Norbert Krapf's Catholic Boy Blues): Suggestions for a Retreat for the Pope Emeritus

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I'm doing a lot of reading lately, and it occurs to me to share the fruits of that labor with you by way of snippets from things ...