Why Can’t the Vatican Hear Women?
Progressive Catholic orgs petition the Pope to lay off the nuns. Not bloody likely.
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Debating Death: Is It Really the End?
Death is not final. Last week, four scientific big thinkers settled into their seats on…
Read MoreHoney, I Shrunk the Church: The Vatican Manages Sexual Abuse, Canonization and the Nuns
Whatever happened to that great big Roman Catholic Church? It seems to be shrinking before…
Read MoreLCWR Nuns Respond, Acknowledge Severity of Vatican Mistrust
PR battle with Vatican heats up.
Read MoreVatican Takedown of Nuns No Laughing Matter
The “pope’s theologian” laughs off rebuke of LCWR, suggests “dialogue.”
Read MoreVatican Accuses Nuns of “Open Provocation”
Tightens grip on the LCWR.
Read MoreCan You Be Liberal and Catholic?
And if you are, can you get some media love?
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US Archbishop and Vatican-Appointed “Overseer” Attends Annual Meeting of Women Religious
This year’s meeting, held in Orlando, Florida, was made up of 825 nuns and only three priests, one of whom was Seattle’s Archbishop J. Peter Sartain—the official charged by the Vatican with overseeing the LCWR following last year’s harsh assessment of American nuns.
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Francis the Jesuit: a Philosopher-Pope?
Amid the clamor to figure out who Pope Francis might be, observers never failed to mention that he is the first Jesuit pope. But what does that really tell us and, more importantly, as his decisions begin to come down the pipeline, what is most important to know about his Jesuit worldview?
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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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