Vatican Pitbulls Make Cardinal
How do you rise to the level of cardinal under Pope Benedict XVI? Two new American cardinals reveal a pattern.
Read MoreHow do you rise to the level of cardinal under Pope Benedict XVI? Two new American cardinals reveal a pattern.
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Read MoreTwo women drinking coffee together in a Buenos Aires café during the dictatorship (1973-1983) could have been arrested merely for being together. Today they can marry. What a difference a few decades can make. Eva Peron was right in her address to her people from the balcony, as crooned…
Read MoreWhile Protestant churches like the Presbyterian Church USA have their annual gatherings in the summer, the institutional Roman Catholic Church, with no such meetings to worry about, uses the season to issue documents from on high. According to
Read MoreBut it’s even more disturbing that a prof at a state school paid was paid by the church.
Read MoreTo turn suddenly to sisters as the rescue workers for a male-led institution is to saddle them with a clean-up operation that would “naturally” be a woman’s job in patriarchy.
Read MoreMarquette may be in the vanguard of Catholic institutions that are growing increasingly parochial, shaping the social sciences and perhaps eventually the physical sciences to Roman kyriarchal ideology rather than to the gold standard in the field. It is a sad loss of what might have become a world-class university.
Read MoreFrom an all-male hierarchy that trains priests to look only to their superiors for guidance, to a theological emphasis on secrecy, to the “creeping infallibility” that confers divine authority on church leaders, the Catholic church needs reform—at a structural level. And it’s up to the laity to begin the process.
Read MoreAs DC law changes to require equality for same sex couples seeking to adopt, the Catholic Church (which has been in the adoption business for generations) opts to close up shop rather than to abide by the law and treat gay and lesbian families equally.
Read MoreA fine start. And now we look forward to a deeper, and broader conversation.
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