Showing posts with label women's ordination. Show all posts
Showing posts with label women's ordination. 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...
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...
Monday, July 29, 2019

Ruth Krall, Historical Meandering: Ideologies of Abuse and Exclusion (2)

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Vasily Polenov, Le droit du Seigneur (1874), in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow The essay below is the second part of Ruth Krall'...
Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Southern Baptist Abuse Report, Next Installment: "Preying on Teens"

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The third installment in the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News investigation of abuse in Southern Baptist churches is ou...
Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Southern Baptist Abuse Report, Next Installment: "Offend, Then Repeat"

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The next installment in the Houston Chronicle  (and San Antonio Express-News ) ground-breaking report on abuse within Southern Baptis...
Monday, February 11, 2019

Houston Chronicle Invites Readers to Share Stories of Abuse in Southern Baptist Churches: My Commentary

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Houston Chronicle  is not playing, with its exhaustive investigation of abuse within Southern Baptist churches. On a page attached to...
Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Joanna Moorhead in The Guardian on Pope's Letter re: Sexual Crimes of Clergy and Cover-up by Church Officials — "[H]ow Dare You Ask Ordinary Catholics Like Me to Atone?"

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Joanna Moorhead for The Guardian   on papal letter about clerical abuse crimes and their cover-up by church officials :
Monday, May 7, 2018

LGBTQ Catholics and the Conversation About Staying or Leaving: 15 More Theses About Truths That Need to Be Heard in This Conversation

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My last posting  was an attempt to tell truth that is, in my view, often obscured and even barred as Catholics discuss the "proble...
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...
Monday, November 7, 2016

Pope Francis This Week: "All Walls Fall. All of Them." Pope Francis Last Week: The Ban on Women's Ordination Is A Last Word, Forever.

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"Dear brothers and sisters, all walls fall. All of them. Do not be fooled." -- Pope Francis on eve of US election https://t.co/7...
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 ...
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...
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...
Monday, May 16, 2016

From Strawberries on the Cake to the Diaconate: Commentary on Pope Francis's Remark About Studying Women and the Diaconate

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As many of you will perhaps know, Pope Francis made an off-the-cuff remark to a closed-door meeting of superiors of religious women l...
Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Jamie Manson on Pope Francis's Curiously Straitened Notion of Mercy When Women and Women's Ordination Are Under Consideration

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For the University of Arizona's Zócalo Public Square blog, Jamie Manson  explains the anguish of Roman Catholic women like hersel...
Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Papal Visit Wrap-Up, Or Unwrapping Media Spin Along with Women, Abuse Survivors, and LGBT Catholics

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Not a wrap-up of the papal visit, but an attempt to unwrap the neatly wrapped package that has just been delivered to us vis the medi...
Friday, September 18, 2015

The Francis Effect: Putting Rhetoric Together with Reality on Eve of Pope's Visit (3)

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For parts one and two of this series, see here and here . The Francis effect? Anecdote #1: in a National Catholic Reporter artic...