Showing posts with label theology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label theology. Show all posts
Saturday, October 24, 2020

When the Instinctual Response of Christian Communities to a Changing World Is, No!

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Read the responses of a number of bishops and the homophobic sector of Catholic Twitter to the recently released papal statement about civil...
Wednesday, April 29, 2020

My Response to "American Heretics: The Politics of the Gospel" — Still None, Still Done, as US Christianity Exhibits Total Lack of Imagination in Face of Pandemic

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I did watch " American Heretics: The Politics of the Gospel. " It’s an excellent film and great statement, and I highly recomme...
Tuesday, April 14, 2020

"Jesus Paid It All": How the Pushback of Some US Catholics Vs. Church Closings Reflects Captivity of Catholic Imagination to a Capitalist Worldview

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Jesus paid it all, All to him I owe. As social gospel theologian Shailer Mathews noted in the early 20th century, those words fro...
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...
Saturday, August 17, 2019

"Ladies, You'll Never Have to Use a Washing Machine Again When You Get to Heaven": I Report on a Funeral Sermon

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Maytag Ad 1959 "Ladies, just think! You'll never have to use a washing machine again when you get to heaven." Then t...
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...
Thursday, October 18, 2018

Was Dietrich Bonhoeffer Gay? Diane Reynolds' The Doubled Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer on the Biographical-Theological Evidence

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Diane Reynolds,  The Doubled Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Women, Sexuality, and Nazi Germany  (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2016) ...
Tuesday, September 25, 2018

More on the Jesuit Elite Boys' Club from Which Kavanaugh and Judge Emerged: Need to Rethink Jesuit Claims re: Inculcating Healthy Masculinity in Students?

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1) There is a serious problem in American Catholic conversations that is glaringly obvious in the discussion of Brett Kavanaugh, Mark Judg...
Friday, September 21, 2018

Charles Marsh's Biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Strange Glory, on Bonhoeffer's (Highly Contested) Homosexuality

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Here's another set of excerpts I'd like to share with you from Charles Marsh's excellent biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer,  ...
Monday, September 10, 2018

The "Why I'm Leaving" and "Why I'm Staying" Statements After Pennsylvania Report: My Theological Take on Them

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There was an interesting discussion thread here several days back about the spate of articles after the Pennsylvania grand jury repor...
Wednesday, September 5, 2018

Fordham Theology Professors: "We Categorically Condemn the Vile Slander That the Crisis in the Catholic Church Is Due to the Presence of Gay Men"

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Andy Staron, who is an assistant professor of theology at Wheeling Jesuit University, has shared a letter written by two members o...
Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Revisiting Cahill and Wilkinson's Child Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church As Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report Is Released

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Dallas Morning News , June 2002 This is a posting from this blog dated 20 October 2017 that I'd like to re-post this morning, as ...
Thursday, July 12, 2018

Internet Responds to POTUS' Personal Theologian Paula White & Her Clownish Theology of White Nationalism: "Do You Not Read Your Bible, Sis?"

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. @Paula_White - who commits theological malpractice with nearly every word - advises the president of the United States. Where did she...
Sunday, April 29, 2018

In Memory of James Cone: "The Conspicuous Absence of the Lynching Tree in American Theological Discourse and Preaching Is Profoundly Revealing"

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The lynching tree—so strikingly similar to the cross on Golgotha—should have a prominent place in American images of Jesus' death. ...
Saturday, April 21, 2018

Gerald Slevin on Pius IX and the Doctrine of Infallibility: Pope Francis Can Make the Church Great Again by Eliminating the "Infallibility Trap"

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Earlier today, I linked to a very fine statement by Irish lay Catholic Ursula Halligan in response to recent comments by Archbishop...
Tuesday, November 28, 2017

"It Is THEOLOGY That Makes the Church an Unsafe Place for Survivors & a Haven for Abusers": #ChurchToo Discusses Theological Underpinnings of Churches' Defense of Sexual Predators

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To all of you who are wanting us to only call out the individuals who directly abuse people, and ignore the whole theology and culture tha...
Friday, November 3, 2017

Footnote to Discussion of Elevated Theology of Priesthood and Who Gets Invited to Table: Truth Claims of Doctrine Require Verification in Real Lives

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This posting is a footnote to a string of interrelated postings I've made here recently, for which I have provided links below. R...
Friday, October 20, 2017

Cahill and Wilkinson's Child Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church: "Most Comprehensive Report Ever Published on the Systemic Reasons Behind Child Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church"

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Several days ago, when I blogged about Desmond Cahill and Peter Wilkinson's study Child Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church: An ...
Thursday, September 14, 2017

Faith Defined as Dogma Is Weaponized Faith: A Theological Footnote to Father Jenkins' Response to Senator Feinstein re: Catholic Dogma

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I'd like to add a theological footnote to what I posted yesterday reflecting on the recent claim of Notre Dame University presid...
Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Notre Dame President Father Jenkins Responds to Senator Feinstein: "'Dogma Lives Loudly' . . . Is a Condition We Call Faith" (But No, It's Not)

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At a hearing last week, Senator Diane Feinstein grilled federal judge nominee (and Notre Dame University law professor) Amy Coney Ba...