Kavanaugh’s ‘Jesuitical’ Response to ‘Abomination’ of ‘Roe v. Wade’ in 2006
Jesuitical: crafty; sly; intriguing.
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Legacy of Eugenics and Racism Can’t Be Ignored
After Bishop Michael Bruce Curry delivered his sermon at today’s wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan…
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Meeting on the Bridge: Fr. James Martin’s Ministry to LGBT Catholics Becomes a Book
A few years ago, the idea of a “celebrity Jesuit” would have puzzled most Americans….
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Hires US Bishops; abortion and sexuality scold as newest columnist.
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Excommunicated For ‘Grave Scandal’ of Ordaining Women
Just after the new pope effectively shut the door to the ordination of women, a priest connects his segregated Louisiana upbringing and campaign to end the U.S. Army School of the Americas to last year’s excommunication for his refusal to quit ordaining women.
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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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Church Controversy is in Georgetown’s DNA
Georgetown founder John Carroll wouldn’t be surprised to find his university in a controversy concerning the appropriate place of religious groups in civil affairs… but he might be surprised that this time an attack came from within the Church.
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Vatican Equates Women’s Ordination with Priest Pedophilia?
While 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
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Massacre of Jesuits in El Salvador: 20 Years Later
Two decades after the murder of six Jesuit professors, El Salvador is celebrating the end of right-wing rule and the first peaceful transfer of power in nearly 200 years.
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Senator Ted Kennedy: A Catholic We Could Canonize
Though he was never one to wear his religion on his sleeve, Sen. Kennedy’s liberal record of working for social justice falls squarely within the Catholic tradition.
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