National Catholic Reporter Editorials on Catholic Winners, Catholic Losers in U.S. Elections

Two valuable editorial statements from National Catholic Reporter as election day arrives in the U.S.: the first maintains that three groups of Catholics are the "winners" in today's elections, regardless of the outcome of specific elections.  These are the nuns on the bus, LGBT Catholics, and Latinos.  

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: Voting Catholic in 2012 U.S. Elections

I'll be voting my Catholic faith today along with a blogger named Peggy, who recently wrote this in response to Anthea Butler's latest article at Religion Dispatches about Bishop Jenky's (Peoria, Illinois) atrocious gospel-obliterating partisanship in this election cycle: 

Gerald T. Slevin: Is Pope Leading a New "Children's Crusade" to Help Romney Win?

Another outstanding piece this morning by Jerry Slevin.  In this essay, Jerry sketches the historical and political background to the intervention of the Vatican and the U.S. Catholic hierarchy in the 2012 elections, noting the connection of papal politics (and the politicking of the USCCB) to the sex abuse scandal in the Catholic church.  Jerry's essay follows:

Margaret Farley's Just Love: The Challenge to Make Love of Gay Persons Just in Christian Churches

A final set of excerpts from Margaret Farley's book Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics (NY: Continuum, 2006): as you'll see, these all have in common the theme of homosexuality.  They're all reflections on how Christian communities need to frame discussions of that ethical topic, in order to be adequately ethical and adequately Christian as they approach it.

Republicans and Rape: Can't Stop the Nonsense (with Religious Right at the Wheel)

At Talk to Action, Bruce Wilson notes that the inability of Republicans to stop talking (and talking and talking further) about rape in ways many sane folks find ludicrous represents the "now-almost complete dominance of the religious right over the political party of Lincoln, Eisenhower, and Teddy Roosevelt."  Wilson points out (and I feel sure he's not ridiculing people with Tourette's syndrome in saying this),

Romney's Stance on Abortion and Contraception: Unmasking the Catholic Bishops' Pro-Republican Politics

This past February, I wrote:

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "Do We Need to 'Affirm' Mass Murder, Megalomania, Necrophilia etc. in Order to Love These People?"

I've told this story on this blog before.  I want to do so again now, at the risk of boring readers, because it has a helpful and pointed application to a comment a reader left here yesterday.  Here's the story: