Thursday, June 5, 2014

The Marriage Equality Situation in Arkansas, An Update: Rallies, Editorials Full of Flying Fur, Duelling Bible Verses, the Whole Shebang

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So it occurs to me to update you all about what has been going on in Arkansas since our supremes stayed marriage equality . Shortly...
Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Andrew Sullivan on Mass Grave of Irish Babies Born to "Fallen Women": "That Is Not a Sign of a Church Gone Astray. It's a Sign of a Church Given Over to Evil"

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Andrew Sullivan looks at the  discovery of the bodies of 800 babies in a mass grave (they were stuffed inside a septic tank) behind...

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: GM Ignition Switches, Church Leaders Who Cover Up Abuse of Minors, and How Silence Kills

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In a recent op-ed for the New Jersey Star-Ledger , clergy abuse survivor Mark Crawford asks how it can be that the federal government...

Pope Francis Announces He'll Meet with Abuse Survivors; Colleen Baker on "Keeping the Laity Religiously Infantilized and Dependent on the Clergy"

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At Enlightened Catholicism, Colleen Baker sees the story of the abuse crisis in the Catholic church as the story that keeps "ch...
Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Cardinal Dolan's Recent Paean to Free-Market Capitalism Ghost-Authored by Former Reagan Administration Official Larry Kudlow

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At Religion Dispatches, Patricia Miller writes , 

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "Double Canonization Doesn't Lead to Recognizing Diversity but to Neutralizing Both Options"

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The following snippet is from a statement issued by the Spanish Asociación de Teólogas y Teólogos Juan XXIII at the end of May, re: th...

Ta-Nehisi Coates's Case for Reparations: Do We Really Want to Know about the Experience of African Americans (or of Women) in the U.S.?

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John Stewart cleverly suggests that we don't want to know the truth — not about the recent Isla Vista shootings and the deep roots o...