Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "Oh William, Please Do Not Equate Me . . . To Your Backward Southern Relatives"
I mentioned the following exchange at the Commonweal blog site in a comment to Michael Ferri earlier today. I find the exchange amusing for a number of reasons:
Puppet Masters of Attack on American Nuns Revealed: No Surprises, Continuing Deep Corruption in Catholic Leadership
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| 2007 Knights of Columbus Annual Convention: Supreme Knight Anderson Gives Gaudium et Spes Award to Cardinal Bertone, Vatican Secretary of State, with Bishop William Lori, KC Chaplain |
I'm quite a ways behind with preparing postings these days (and with reading material about which to blog with any coherence or intelligence). Still immersed in footnote-checking for my book, and discovering--a disconcerting discovery--that one after another reference cited by other texts I'm using turns out to be wrong, when I head to the original source.
Monday, May 7, 2012
Gerald T. Slevin: Sexually Abused Catholics, Religious Liberty & Papal Monarchy
As the week begins, another powerful and informative statement by Jerry Slevin. Jerry is commenting in this posting on the news conference of Philadelphia archbishop Chaput last Friday. What follows is Jerry's posting:
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Tom Fox on Vatican Bullying of U.S. Nuns: Men Battering Women
Writing at National Catholic Reporter, the paper's publisher Thomas C. Fox characterizes some of the U.S. Catholic bishops as bullies vis-a-vis their treatment of religious women. Fox is admirably clear that the bullying of the LCWR isn't, as the Vatican is claiming, about doctrine: it's about differing pastoral styles, as he notes:
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