The Trouble With Francis: Three Things That Worry Me
Substantive structural and doctrinal issues do not evaporate just because the pope does not wear Prada.
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What The Church Needs More Than a ‘Good Pope’
As many have noted, Pope Francis’s latest interview offers a refreshing departure from his predecessors despite, among other things, the pope’s dubious perspective on women. But rather than more emphasis on Good Pope Francis, there’s another upside to wish for.
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Will Francis’ Statements on Women and Gays ‘Make a Mess’ Inside the Church?
Pope Francis turned heads with statements that suggest a course correction in the church’s attitude toward gays and women, but ultimately it’ll be what ministry, decision-making power, and moral authority women share that will answer the question.
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Pope Francis and the American Sisters
I think it is time for Catholics to grow up and realize that royalty does not become us. The Church is a service organization whose primary stakeholders are people who are poor. Their needs, and not the whims of pampered prelates, are the priority. Nothing less is acceptable. Raise the bar for heaven’s sake.
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Papal Retirement: A Matter of Conscience
What do you give to the Pope on the occasion of his retirement? I am sure he has more Rolex watches than he needs, and the red shoes he likes are out of my price range. But a new Church would be just the thing to assure him a dignified old age.
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Combat Soldiers & Clergywomen: Problematic Equality
It’s the hierarchy and killing, not just the discrimination.
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Catholics Choose Conscience Over Church
Catholics may well decide the election. But I daresay it won’t be because they line up behind the bishops.
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Nuns on the Bus: 2700 Miles, Nine States, and a Rock Star DC Welcome
Tourist buses are fixtures on Capitol Hill, but the arrival at the Methodist Building of “Nuns on the Bus: Nuns Drive for Faith, Family and Fairness” in noonday heat to the cheers of their colleagues had to be a first.
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Notify This! Vatican Bungles Response to Sexual Ethics Book
Six years late and with little understanding of her intentions, the Vatican denounced Margaret A. Farley’s book on sexual ethics. Is the Vatican reining in scholars it finds threatening?
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Bishops Search for Condoms in Cookie Boxes
Having now cracked down on U.S. nuns and the Girl Scouts the Catholic hierarchy is aiming to define womanhood. Problem is, both of those groups are held in far higher regard than the men at the helm of the crackdowns.
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