William Lindsey

LATEST ARTICLES ( 3425 )

• Dorothee Sölle on Inseparability of God and Love: Implications for Catholic...

  

  Because the following posting seems (to me, at least) so pertinent to the post-synod discussion right now about the Catholic (un)welcoming table for gay folks (... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• "This Fellow Welcomes Sinners and Eats with Them": Catholic Discussion of Welcom...

  

  Jesus talks about tables, and he demonstrates what he means by his talk about tables by inviting public sinners, the unclean and outcast, to eat at his table,... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Massimo Faggioli on Shifting Tectonic Plates of Global Catholicism: Europe and...

  

  Massimo Faggioli in Conversation US on how the synod on the family reveals a tectonic shift in global Catholicism, in which old alliances and loyalties are... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Another Post-Synod Meme Among Some "Liberal" Catholic Commentators: Ironically,...

  

  I wrote yesterday that I find it very interesting that so many "liberal" Catholic academics and media commentators continue to find one way after another to... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Takes on the Synod on the Family: Gay (Un)Welcome Issue, Contraception, Women

  

  Here are some (among many) responses to the recent synod on the family that I'd like to recommend for your reflection: Paul Brandeis Raushenbush at Huffington... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Quote for the Day: Marilynne Robinson, "Shorthand Justice Is Not the Thing at...

  

  Marilynne Robinson speaking to Bill Moyers about her magnificent new novel Lila, which I've just finished reading:It's impossible to achieve things like justice... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage — "Liberal" Catholic Commentators: Maybe th...

  

  In repeated postings here, I've made no secret about the fact that I've long since come to the conclusion that many educated "liberal" Catholics, Catholics... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Welcome Table, Jesus's Practice of Open Commensality, and Catholic Discussion...

  

  Yesterday, I shared some reflections about the old spiritual, "I'm Going to Sit at the Welcome Table." I did so, obviously, because, at its highest levels of... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• I'm Going to Sit at the Welcome Table One of These Days: A Sunday Sermon

  The first thing we need to know about the old Negro spiritual "I'm Going to Sit at the Welcome Table" is that it originates among people in bondage. Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Photos You Requested As My Book Received Booker-Worthen Prize

  

  Someone (I think it may have been you, Mary Q?) asked that I share photos when I received the Booker-Worthen prize this past Thursday. Unfortunately, no photos... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage — Cardinal Burke: Gays Should "Leave the...

  

  John Hayes, contributing to a thread discussing the synod on the family started by Father Robert Imbelli at Commonweal:It seems that it is being confirmed by... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Questions of the Day: Can the Poor Receive Communion? What Is a Catholic Family?

  

  At Iglesia Descalza, Rebel Girl offers a translation of an article by Father Jorge Costadoat, SJ, in Reflexión y Liberación, asking whether the poor can... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Pew Research Center: "Young U.S. Catholics Overwhelmingly Accepting of...

  

  Yesterday, the Pew Research Center study published an article by Michael Lipka, editor of Pew's Religion and Public Life project, with a headline reading, "Youn... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• A Re-Posting from Christmas 2010: "Welcoming Churches and Homeless Wayfarers"

  I first posted the following meditation on the day after Christmas 2010. I also posted it at my travel blog site, Never in Paradise, with the title "Welcoming... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Debate About Welcoming Those Who Are Gay — A Reader Asks: "What Are Catholic...

  

  In your comments about "the ideological warfare and spin-control struggles" that have broken out at the synod on the family over the word "welcome" (the fine... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Quote for the Day: "Are We to Infer That the Catholic Bishops in America Really...

  

  Andrew Sullivan on how the U.S. Catholic bishops (spearheaded by Cardinals Burke and Dolan, according to numerous reports) are trying to rewrite the relatio... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Quote for the Day: Heidi Schlumpf on Synod's "Gradualist" Approach to Catholics...

  

  Heidi Schlumpf, on the much-touted "gradualism" of the synod on the family's relatio, and how it supposedly represents an "earthquake" — but what does any of... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Quote for the Day: For Michael Brown, "There Can Be No Real Or Lasting Justice....

  

  Bill Blum on the kind of justice we can, in all probability, expect in the case of Michael Brown:In the end, as in the King case, it may take a federal civil... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Quote for the Day: "Tone Is Always Irrelevant When You’re Telling Someone That...

  

  Fred Clark, on the question posed at the beginning of this week by the synod on the family's relatio document, "Are we capable of welcoming these people? Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Seeing "Love Is Strange" in the Week of the Catholic "Earthquake" for LGBT...

  I was not designed to be a moral example. (If it's not apparent, I'm building here on what I just posted about my two recent visits to the dentist. Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY