Friday, February 7, 2014

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: Story of 9-Year-Old Brazilian Girl the Kind of Story That Attracts Attention for Reproductive Rights of Children

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At America , Molly Roach offers a powerful rejoinder to Vatican officials and their media enablers who want to pooh-pooh the recent...
Thursday, February 6, 2014

Patricia Miller: Vatican Itself Argued That Sexual Abuse of Children Is a Culture-War Issue

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Patricia Miller at Religion Dispatches on the Vatican's perfervid response (echoed by centrist media commentators) to the U.N. r...

Times Editorial on U.N. and Vatican, Plus Vatican Apologists Begin Their Spin: Ten Critical Questions

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An editorial in todays'  New York Times responds to the U.N. report on the Vatican’s handling of the abuse crisis in the Catholi...

As the Games Begin: Three Videos to Remind Us of What's Really Happening in Russia

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As the Sochi Olympics begin, three videos to remind us of what's happening in Russia outside the bright lights of the carefully m...
Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Footnote to Report of German Bishops to Vatican in Preparation for Synod on Family: Swiss Catholics Weigh In

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A footnote to my posting yesterday about the report of the German bishops to the Vatican about the results of the Vatican survey in ...

United Nations Releases Scathing Report on Handling of Abuse Crisis by Catholic Authorities

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The United Nations Committee on Protection of the Rights of the Child has now released its report  (pdf file) following the Vatican...

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "Sandra Fluke's Rise to Political Stardom Was Something of a Fluke"

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This is one of the stinky ones :