Vatican’s New Media Evangelizing Strategy Can’t Save it from All The Bad News
Friending the Pope.
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CSI Frombork: The Pope Has a Story to Tell
With reburial and rehab of Copernicus the Pope hopes to flex his modernist muscles.
Read MoreNancy Pelosi On Policy Based On The Word Made Flesh
The House Speaker talks Catholic.
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Will Sisters Save the Catholic Church?
To 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.
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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.
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Arrest the Pope: New Atheist Effort to Seek Justice in Sexual Abuse Crisis Should Be Applauded
In response to Richard Dawkins’ and Christopher Hitchens’ attempt to arrest the Pope for complicity in the sexual abuse crisis, Frances Kissling argues that the Church only responds to external pressure anyway. What does it matter where it comes from?
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Do Not Arrest the Pope: New Atheists’ Call for the Pope’s Arrest Isn’t Likely to Produce Justice
Coming from Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, this stunt is likely to provide support for those who believe that atheists and secularists are just out to destroy a church they believe to be evil.
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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Father Does Not Know Best: How To Fix the Catholic Church
From 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.
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