Saturday, January 31, 2015

Pope Francis's Meeting with a Transgender Man: State of the Discussion in Catholic Circles

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Two things strike me as I read this report by Tom Fox that Pope Francis met last week with a transgender man and embraced him. To be...

Pope Francis, Women, and the Band of Brothers: The Ambiguity of the Jesuit Heritage That's Being Ignored by Commentators on Francis as Reformer

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Night thoughts: those vague, diffuse, but seemingly (at the time, that is) brilliant aperçus that come to us in the middle of the ...
Friday, January 30, 2015

Glenn Greenwald on Jonathan Chait: "What Made the Indignity So Much Worse Was That the Attacks Came from People These Journalists Regard as Nobodies"

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As Joan Walsh notes in her valuable critique of Jonathan Chait's recent oy to the universe about, well, the astonishing way in...
Thursday, January 29, 2015

Jerry Slevin on Pastoral Treatment of Divorced and Remarried Catholics, and Popes Benedict and Francis: Which Pope Is Infallible?

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In a recent posting at his Christian Catholicism blog , Jerry Slevin points readers to William McDonough's Commonweal essay about...

EBook about John Howard Yoder and Sexual Abuse in Mennonite Community Now Available

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On behalf of Ruth Krall* of the Enduring Space site , I'm posting the following announcement of an important new Ebook about Menno...

As Southern States Call for "Secession by Another Name" in Response to Marriage Equality, Catholic Right-Wing Leaders Prepare to Issue Follow-Up to Manhattan Declaration

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Two days ago, I commented on what's happening out in the U.S. heartland after the Supremes announced they'll take same-sex m...

LDS Leaders Hold "Historic" Press Conference to Announce Support for Gay Rights, and Critics Suggest Mormons Are Punking the Media: My Response

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As you may have read, this week top leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints issued a statement saying the foll...