The Vatican is Upset — Perhaps We Should be Upset Because of the Vatican…..
Waltzing on thin ice…… Patsy McGarry writing in the Irish Times (July 28, 2011) offers some well-phrased reflections about the Vatican’s reactions to sexual abuse in Ireland and the Murphy and Cloyne...
View ArticleAdvent 2011: Reform Manifesto
In the United States, on this first weekend in Advent, Catholics are confronted with a changed Eucharistic liturgy. It has been imposed on them by a church leadership day-dreaming about the 1950s. One...
View ArticleWE HOLD THESE CATHOLIC TRUTHS…
There is a sinister spirit pontificating in contemporary Roman Catholic leadership. It is a kind of religious fundamentalism; and it is unwelcome, unhealthy, and unacceptable. In the name of orthodoxy,...
View ArticleCRISIS and HOPE for the Catholic Church
Tony Coady, Roman Catholic and Professorial Fellow in Applied Philosophy at Melbourne University, is currently Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford Uehiro Centre for Applied...
View ArticleA Prayer and a Thought for Pentecost 2012
Come Holy Spirit! Give us the wisdom, strength, and courage of Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli! Shortly after becoming Pope John XXIII in 1958, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli announced he would call for a second...
View ArticleAWAY UNTIL AFTER JULY 4th
Dear Friends, (SOME PEOPLE DID NOT RECEIVE MY EARLIER MESSAGE SORRY IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE FOR YOU!) From now until the Fourth of July I will be on the road: a bit of vacation, time for my own...
View ArticleStruggling to Stay Catholic
Up to now I have decided to stay. It is an important part of my identity. I do understand the concerns and frustrations. Nearly everyone in my close family has now left the Catholic Church. The...
View ArticleFrightening Climate Change
Pondering the US heatwave 2012, a good friend in Michigan just sent me a frightening article about climate change, written by Mark Bittman, an opinion columnist for the New York Times. “The climate has...
View ArticleCivil Discourse in an Era of Catholic Polarization
In our Catholic tradition, there has long been a variety of theologies. From the earliest years of the church in fact, we had a Petrine theology, a Pauline theology, and the four theologies of Matthew,...
View ArticleGOD BLESS SISTER JOAN!
Joan Chittister writing in NCR (24 April 2013): “The BBC just called, an incident that in itself may well be a measure of the larger import of the situation. It’s a strange moment in history: Suddenly...
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