Showing posts with label theology of women. Show all posts
Showing posts with label theology of women. Show all posts
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,  

Symbol Trumps Substance in Synod on the Family: Women As the Imagined Strawberries on the Cake

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National Catholic Reporter editorializes :
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:
Friday, March 13, 2015

News Catch-Up: Philadelphia Gay-Bashing Story, Bondage Illustration for Vatican Gathering on Women, and Band of Brothers Dominating Vatican News Coverage

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This is one of those end-of-week posts in which I try to catch you up on stories about which I've blogged in the past, which have...
Saturday, January 3, 2015

Gerald Slevin on 12 New Year's Resolutions for Pope Francis: Time to Act Is Now

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In a new posting at his Christian Catholicism site , Jerry Slevin invites Catholics to dream about the impossible. As he notes, count...
Saturday, December 13, 2014

Theologians Pope Francis Would Do Well to Read: Ivone Gebara on Catholic Church's Insistence on Maternal Role of Women

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In the theologians-Pope-Francis-would-do-well-to-read category today, here's Brazilian theologian Ivone Gebara on what the maternity...
Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Ivone Gebara on the Violence of the World's Main Religions Against Women, and Extension of This Violence to "All Kinds of People"

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In my posting several days ago , I cited Ivone Gebara's  Out of the Depths: Women’s Experience of Evil and Salvation , trans. and...

Meinrad Craighead: Divine Mother and Clouds of Invisible Witnesses

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Jayden Cameron has a beautiful posting up at his Gay Mystics blog site right now, focusing on artist-mystic Meinrad Craighead. I rec...
Friday, March 7, 2014

Placing Pope Francis's Remarks about a Theology of Women Against the Backdrop of Ivone Gebara's Real Theology of Women

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Sister Ivone Gebara One of the themes that emerged in Pope Francis's anniversary interview this week was the question of the p...
Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Ash Wednesday Meditation: Ivone Gebara on the Communtarian Dimension of the Cross

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Today's Ash Wednesday, a day in which some Christian liturgical traditions limn crosses of ash on the foreheads of the faithful, ...
Sunday, February 9, 2014

Taking A Close Look at the "Church Teaching" That Vatican Media Apologists Claim U.N. Attacks: There's Their World, and Then There's the Real World

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For Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP),  David Clohessy responds to Austen Ivereigh's claim that the U.N. Comm...
Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Angela Bonavoglia's To-Do-List on Women for Pope Francis, with Theological Reflections from Ivone Gebara

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At Huffington Post, Angela Bonavoglia has published  a very fine open letter to Pope Francis entitled "For Pope Francis: A To-Do L...
Tuesday, January 28, 2014

On Talking Girl with a Guy in My Head: Questions from a Ewe Gives Pope Francis Some Advice about the "Theology of Women"

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The incisive and funny blogger who maintains the Questions from a Ewe blog notes that Pope Francis may be visiting the U.S. next yea...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Richard Rodriguez's Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography: Depending on Women "to Protect the Church from Its impulse to Cleanse Itself of Me"

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For the San Francisco Chronicle , Lesley Hazleton reviews Richard Rodriguez's new book, Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography . As ...
Monday, October 7, 2013

Matthew Fox, Letters to Pope Francis: "It Is Essential to Talk of Women's Rights"

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Throughout his book Letters to Pope Francis , theologian Matthew Fox points out that one of the major gifts to the church of the sain...

Association of Catholic Priests: Pope Francis Has "A Major Blind Spot When It Comes to the Place of Women in the Catholic Church"

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Central Scotoma The Association of Catholic Priests suggests that, as with his predecessors, Pope Francis has "a major blind ...
Friday, October 4, 2013

A Reader Responds: "Women Tend to Organize in Circles"--and I Think about the Shutdown of U.S. Government

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Two days ago, I commented on Lisa Fullam's recent question , "If women are so darn valuable, why is the 'gang of 8'...
Thursday, October 3, 2013

Pope Francis and Theology of Women: Overcoming Us-Them Imagination in Catholic Clerical Structure's Understanding of Women

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In a posting at the Commonweal  blog site two days ago, theologian Lisa Fullam suggests that those who want to help Pope Francis bet...