Monday, December 31, 2018

Michael Sean Winters Asks, "Can the Church Round the Corner in 2019?": My Response

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"Can the church round the corner in 2019?" Michael Sean Winters asks in an end-of-year reflection published today . I conside...
Friday, December 28, 2018

Family Funerals, Immigrant-Bashing, and the Weaponization of American Catholicism: Place to Which "Pro-Life" U.S. Catholic Leaders Have Brought Their Church

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At a Catholic funeral for a parent, is it normal or usual to print at the bottom of the funeral program that anyone not in communion w...
Monday, December 24, 2018

A Christmas Story

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Since Christmas is a time for telling ourselves stories…. The Christmas story is one we have to make way for against all odds.
Sunday, December 23, 2018

Calling the Bluff of Those Who Maintain That Roots of Southern White Evangelicals Don't Run Back to Defense of Slavery

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I'm not a white evangelical now, but I was raised in the Southern Baptist church, with two Baptist grandmothers (one Southern an...
Saturday, December 22, 2018

Father Prado on Pope Francis: Wants to Deny Access to Priesthood to Gays Because He's Catholic — I Have Questions

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Father Fernando Prado, author of the book  The Strength of Vocation , in which he interviews Pope Francis and gets the pope on record...

Headlines to Read Side by Side: Pope Tells Abusive Priests to Turn Themselves in to Criminal Authorities; Police Are Enabling Rampant Abuse in ICE Shelters

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Bill Chappell, " Pope Francis Tells Abusive Priests And Bishops To Turn Themselves In " Michael Grabell, Topher Sanders, ...
Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Death of 7-Year-Old Girl in U.S. Custody, a Family Funeral, and the Inexplicable Cruelty of Right-Wing U.S. Catholicism: An Advent Conundrum

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Sometimes I follow threads in Catholic discussions on Twitter down rabbit holes. I know I shouldn't do this, because the holes inev...