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A 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 Vatican Council. Immediate reactions were mixed. Leading people … Continue reading
CRISIS 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 Ethics. (Here are excerpts from his 18 May 2012 article in Practical Ethics, … Continue reading
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USCCB TARGETS GIRL SCOUTS!
Maybe the old boys club would just like to have a church full of old boys. According to David Crary, writing for the Associated Press, Girl Scouts USA is now suspected of deviant thinking and wayward behavior by the United … Continue reading
WE 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, today’s Catholic fundamentalists condemn and denigrate believers who study, ask … Continue reading
A MAJOR LEADERSHIP CRISIS
A few days ago, after posting my reflections about bullying bishops, I got a rather nasty private email. The author, to phrase it here more politely, told me that if I despise the church and hate our bishops and the … Continue reading
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Bullying Bishops: Reformers of the Reform
Bullying is a form of aggressive behavior using force or coercion to afflict others. Bullying consists of three basic types of abuse – emotional, verbal, and physical. It can use subtle methods of coercion such as intimidation or not so … Continue reading
BELIEF GAP: Church as Hierarchy or Church as People
According to survey results published a couple days ago, three out of four Irish who identified themselves as Catholics find the church’s teaching on sexuality “irrelevant.” The survey — conducted by the research association Amarach — also showed that almost … Continue reading
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Old Men and Their New Inquisition
Cardinal William Levada, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) previously known as the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition or more familiarly as the “Holy Office,” will be 76 on June 15th. … Continue reading
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Apostolic Imagination
Pope Benedict XVI once again denounced the ordination of women and the abolition of priestly celibacy in the Roman Catholic Church during a stern Holy Thursday address. Delivering his homily this past Thursday in St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Benedict said … Continue reading
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Thoughts for Easter 2012
“All things therefore are charged with love, are charged with God and if we knew how to touch them give off sparks and take fire, yield drops and flow, ring and tell of him.” + “And for all this, nature … Continue reading
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