Saturday, January 8, 2011

Princeton Grad Student Commits Suicide after Childhood Sexual Abuse: Implications for Catholic Discussions

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The tragedy of Bill Zeller's suicide should sound a warning bell for all those apologists for the current Catholic hierarchy who want t...
Friday, January 7, 2011

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Want to know where the cut-and-dried, theology-lite, rote-memorization catechetical method of the current restorationist Catholic regime en...

Archbishop Vincent Nichols on Need to Keep Conversation of Sexual Ethics Open: Critical Reflections

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Jim McCrea has emailed me (and other folks) information from an interesting article in the latest issue of the British journal The Tablet ....
Thursday, January 6, 2011

Ramin Setoodeh Steps in It Again, Refuses to Retract Thesis re: Gay Actors Playing Straight

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Journalist Ramin Setoodeh is taking heat again for . . . well,  it's difficult to figure out precisely what Setoodeh wants to say in ...

Milwaukee Catholic Archdiocese Files Bankruptcy, Survivors of Clerical Sexual Abuse Call Foul

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Following in the footsteps of a number of other U.S. Catholic dioceses, the diocese of Milwaukee has declared bankruptcy as survivors of ...
Wednesday, January 5, 2011

New York Times on Scalia's Attack on Equal Protection Clause: "Outlandish"

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As I expect many readers of Bilgrimage already know, Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia began his new year with a bang by declaring that t...
Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Birds Fall, Fish Die, and Questions Abound

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There's nothing intelligent I know how to say about the recent mysterious events in which some 5,000 red-winged blackbirds fell from t...