Vatican’s New Media Evangelizing Strategy Can’t Save it from All The Bad News
Friending the Pope.
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Heavy Metal Saved Me From Catholic Guilt; RIP Ronnie Dio
Upon the death of a ‘metal God.’
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Arizona is the Hispanic Alabama
Arizona’s Republican governor and many conservatives may not be aware of the extent to which immigration cuts across religious groups—liberal and conservative. If draconian measures like SB 1070 take hold and opposition gains steam, Republicans may see their 2010 and 2012 hopes evaporate in the summer sun.
Read MoreThe Wounded People of God
Holding the Catholic Church to account.
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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 MoreCatholic Bishops Fan Fire of Irrelevancy
Having followed someone else’s lie about healthcare and abortion the US Bishops ought to think long and hard about the immigration fight.
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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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Capricology: Tattoos, Blood, Cyber-Dating
In the ever more dystopian world of Syfy Channel’s Caprica, teenage girls inhabit robot bodies, or live eternally without bodies at all, human bodies are marked by memories, and all the while there is blood flowing in the virtual streets.
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Extra-Terrestrial Kitsch: Capricology #4
Among other clues to this sci-fi opera, our Caprica watchers took particular note of a bobbleheaded bull on the dashboard of a Tauron killer. What can we learn from the possibility that Capricans can be as kitsch-obsessed, cigarette-addicted, and as reckless with civil liberties as earthlings can be?
Read MoreBenny Hinn Can’t Heal His Marriage
Notorious healing televangelist faces divorce.
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