Sunday, February 24, 2019

Frédéric Martel's In the Closet of the Vatican: Valuable Commentary — "A Dishonest System Cannot Demand Honesty"

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I have not read Frédéric Martel's explosive new book In the Closet of the Vatican , about which there has been a flurry of commen...
Friday, February 22, 2019

Belmont Abbey, Where I Met Waterloo as a Theologian, Back in News: Two Abbey Priests Who Served at the College Appear in List of Accused Priests — Footnote

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An important note about the story I tell today in my blog posting linked below: even as Catholic institutions in the 1990s knew of the gro...

Belmont Abbey, Where I Met Waterloo as a Theologian, Back in News: Two Abbey Priests Who Served at the College Appear in List of Accused Priests

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Readers of this blog who have followed it for any length of time will know the story of how my career as a Catholic theologian and th...
Wednesday, February 20, 2019

"Everything in This Spreading Crisis Revolves Around Structural Mendacity"; "Poland's Most Senior Nun Has Been Banned from Further Media Contact": Talking Abuse

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Poland's most senior nun has been banned from further media contact after condemning the sexual abuse of religious sisters by Cathol...
Monday, February 18, 2019

McCarrick Defrocked, Abuse Summit Convening, and NY Times Lets Gay Priests Speak: My Twitter Commentary

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For years, Roman Catholic Church leaders have driven gay congregants away in shame. And yet, thousands of ministers are gay men. Two doz...
Friday, February 15, 2019

Stephanie Krehbiel on Religious Groups Facing Abuse Revelations: "Godly Men, Be Quiet"

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This map shows routes of several Southern #Baptist "travelers;" men who preyed on people in one church role & went on to an...
Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Southern Baptist Abuse Report, Next Installment: "Preying on Teens"

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The third installment in the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News investigation of abuse in Southern Baptist churches is ou...