Showing posts with label women in the church. Show all posts
Showing posts with label women in the church. Show all posts
Thursday, December 8, 2022

Pope Francis on Women Priests and Related Recent News Items: "I do not know whether to laugh or cry at Pope Francis’ suggestion about women’s position in the Church"

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Altar of Veit Stoss, descent of the Spirit at Pentecost, St. Mary's Church, Krakow, Poland, photo by Robert Breuer at Wikimedia Commons ...
Friday, October 28, 2022

Having Left Twitter Because Musk Acquired It, I'm Resuming This Blog

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  Photo of Leslie Jordan by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress, from discussion of his book How Y'All Doing?: MIsadventures and Mischief f...
Saturday, February 22, 2020

Centering Religion on Possession or Lack of a Penis Seems to Have Some Significant Downsides

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Tina Beattie, "A 'frozen idea of the feminine,"   The Tablet, 20 Feb. 2020 I think this morning of three famous m...
Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Southern Baptist and U.S. Catholic Leaders Meet in Same Week, Both Confronting Serious Sexual Abuse Problems: A "Gender Hurricane" Results

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It's a gender hurricane out there this week. Come Holy Spirit. https://t.co/ebDdAKIsEc — Natalia Imperatori (@nimperatori) June 11, 2...
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, October 29, 2018

Liz Dodd on the Damage That Youth Synod's Game-Playing with LGBTQ Lives Does to Those Lives and to the Church Itself

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Liz Dodd on the damage that the youth synod's game-playing with LGBTQ lives does to those lives and to the church itself, in "...
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 12, 2018

Important Statement from Catholic Women Speak re: "Letter to Pope Francis from Catholic Women": Who's Promoting It and Why

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This is an important statement from Catholic Women Speak  in response to the "Letter to Pope Francis from Catholic Women" bei...
Thursday, August 9, 2018

Daughter of Argentinian Priest Speaks Out: "When Carlos Gamboa and the Church He Represents Talk About 'Yes to Life,'" What Do They Mean by That?

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The following is the testimony of Agustina Maria Gamboa Arias , a young woman who was fathered by — but never supported or acknowledged ...
Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Story Links to Story: In Recent News, Female Church Member Accuses Megachurch Pastor of Sexual Assault, Catholic Women Come Forth to Tell Stories of Assault, Political and Religious Right Keeps Pinning Abuse on Gays

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Pieces of commentary I've read in the past few days that are, in my view, much more illuminating when read side-by-side:
Saturday, March 31, 2018

As Men Lift Up the Cross in Holy Week Liturgies Around the World, Some Theological Questions

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In a just-published article entitled " In an age of Trump and Stormy Daniels, evangelical leaders face sex scandals of their own...
Friday, March 9, 2018

Mary McAleese on Catholic Church As "Primary Global Carrier of the Virus of Misogyny" and on Theology Denying Ordination to Women as "Pure Codology"

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This is really Sarasi's post and not mine. In the past two days, she has provided a wealth of links to commentary about the stellar a...
Friday, January 26, 2018

David Martin, "#MeToo in the Pew Next to You," with Preface by Cameron Altaras

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It's my privilege today to be able to offer you a valuable statement by Rev. David Martin, Executive Minister of the Mennonite Ch...
Friday, January 12, 2018

Standing Ovation at Highpoint Church, Memphis, for Pastor Who Sexually Assaulted 17-Year-Old Girl: Churches Still Not Intending to Get It

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Church: When the prevailing word is boys will be boys, then we are saying girls will be garbage. And the church needs to not dismiss ...
Thursday, March 16, 2017

Rachel Held Evans Responds to Rev. Mike Huckabee's Defense of Trail of Tears: White Male Christian Leaders Pounce on Her

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Hard to believe there are some like @GovMikeHuckabee who see the Trail of Tears as a bright spot in American history. https://t.co/4M9xEa...
Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Michael Moore: Men, Your "10,000-Year Reign Is Over"; Pope Francis: Female Catholic Priests Never Happening — Two Headlines Worth a Thousand Words

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When I woke in the wee hours of the morning and scanned the news before trying to catch a few more hours of sleep, Huffington Post had ...
Sunday, May 29, 2016

Another Footnote to Discussion of Role of Women in Early Christian Rome: Patricia Miller on Stepped-Up Exodus of Women (Especially Catholic Ones) from Church Life

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#AChurchForOurDaughters https://t.co/frMLqsvLU8 pic.twitter.com/Q3OPZ2soGH — WomensOrdinationConf (@OrdainWomen) May 18, 2016 Ano...
Saturday, May 28, 2016

Footnote to Discussion of Role of Women in Early Christian Rome: Women Priests Project's Rome Poster Campaign Challenges Ban on Women's Ordination

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#Rome poster campaign challenges Catholic ban on female priests #ordainwomen https://t.co/Bn5sncka4j — WomensOrdinationConf (@OrdainWom...
Friday, May 27, 2016

Nicola Denzey's The Bone Gatherers: The Lost Worlds of Early Christian Women — Book Notes

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My last posting was, in some respects, a piece of historiographical commentary. It was a meditation of sorts on how historians might...
Monday, May 23, 2016

More Commentary on Pope Francis and Women Deacons: Jamie Manson and Mary Hunt — "He Believes That God Simply Cannot Work Through the Female Body in the Way in Which God Works through the Male Body"

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Here are two more pieces of good commentary I'd like to recommend to you, regarding the discussion of the possibility of studying...