Irish PM Scathing Denunciation of Vatican
Vatican pulls its ambassador.
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Vatican’s New Media Evangelizing Strategy Can’t Save it from All The Bad News
Friending the Pope.
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In Crisis, Catholic Church Plays ‘The Jew’
Why has the Catholic Church made so many controversial statements about Jews as it wrestles with a sexual abuse crisis? One could argue that, in the heart of a wounded Church, a play is being made for the shroud of the victim.
Read MoreMaking Up Your Own Truth (Video)
In the latest diavlog in RD‘s collaboration with Bloggingheads.tv, Anthea Butler and Michelle Goldberg discuss the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal, Christian militias, the GOP’s spiral of extremism, and more.
Read MoreThe Wounded People of God
Holding the Catholic Church to account.
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Overture To Catholics, From an Episcopal Priest
In the midst of new developments in the Catholic sex abuse scandal and in light of last year’s surprise invitation from the Pope to conservative Episcopalians, a new invitation is extended to disheartened Catholics.
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The Year of the Abusive Priest
When Pope Benedict refers to the ever-growing scandal threatening the Church as “petty gossip of dominant opinion” he shows, for all his theological learning, a shocking disregard for both his flock and for the moral standing of the institution he heads. Is it curtains for the Church as we know it?
Read MoreVatican Seeks Virgin Amidst All This Sexual Impropriety
Lost in (and sullied by) the sexual scandals is the Church’s investigation into an apparition of Mary.
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Training God’s Rottweiler: Catholic Church Sexual Abuse Must End
A passionate call for reform from a scholar of religion and cradle Catholic. When does an institutional theology become so rotten that it needs to be taken out at the roots? It’s time for a new reformation, with justice for victims of sexual abuse.
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